Nina Hartley nació el 11 de marzo de 1959 en Berkeley, California, Estados Unidos. Es una actriz y directora, conocida por Boogie Nights (1997). Ha estado casada con Ernest Greene y David Arthur Carr.
Her family was originally from Alabama, and her grandfather was one of
the lawyers who defended the black teenagers accused (as it turned out,
falsely) of raping a white woman in the infamous 1931 "Scottsboro Boys"
case in Alabama.
The idea that a woman could choose, on purpose, to perform in pornographic videos for her own reasons still goes deeply against the notion that women are somehow victims of male sexuality, that they're delicate flowers who need the protection of a good man or the law.