Belladonna

Career

Michelle Sinclair was born into a large Mormon family in Salt Lake City and began performing in Los Angeles in 1999 at eighteen. She built a dual career as an award-winning performer and as director-producer of her own titles, culminating in the 2009 AVN Female Performer of the Year award. She retired from on-camera work in July 2012, stating she was no longer interested in performing, and pursued mainstream acting including Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice.

Signature: One of very few performers to hold a top on-camera award and a substantial credited career directing and producing her own material.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Belladonna's placement inside The Top Pornstars of All Time, Ranked — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 5 rankings below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.

Full award record3 entries

• 2011AVN — Hall of Fame
• 2013XRCO — Hall of Fame
• 2009AVN — Female Performer of the Year (nomination)

Best known for

Studios

Beyond performing

• Independent director and producer

Mainstream credits

• Inherent Vice (2014)
• The Ladies of the House (2014)

Official links

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Ranked alongside

• Angela White
• Asa Akira
• Small Hands
• Stormy Daniels
• Annie Sprinkle
• Joanna Angel

Sources and verification1 source

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Belladonna

Not yet confirmed:

• Exact birth date from Wikidata; Wikipedia gives “1980 or 1981”