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Juli Ashton
| Nominations: | AVN-Best Supporting Actress in Head Trip (1996) |
BIOGRAPHY
She grew up in Colorado Springs and also attended college therein. While going to school, she worked as a waitress in a topless club, but was never really interested in dancing. After earning her degree at the age of 22, Juli taught Spanish at a junior high school. She moved to Florida and returned to the familiar work of waiting tables at a strip club. While working, Juli discovered she could make much more money as a dancer than she ever could as a waitress, and ultimately made the transition. This new job gave her the opportunity to question feature dancers about the adult film business, which began to slowly pique her interest. Juli really hit it off with two other Colorado girls (Shayla LaVeaux and Alexis DeVell) that came into the club performing a double act. Shayla and Alexis’ Colorado based manager, Lucky Smith, was also in the club and gave Juli his card. Although intrigued, Juli carefully researched the business for another year and a half before contacting Lucky about making movies. Late in 1994, Juli made her debut in a small but memorable scene in Cameron Grant’s critically acclaimed "The Dinner Party". In the movie, the guests are asked to share a sexual fantasy. To the audience’s delight, Randy Spears’ fantasy involves two women in a kitchen. The scene begins as Tammy Parks and Juli are preparing some sort of dish. Of course, things get carried away as the two begin to kiss and fondle each other. Before long, the two are tossing ingredients around and smearing butter on each other. Grant’s knack for visual composition and dramatic slow motion is evident as Juli pours a pitcher of milk over Tammy’s beautiful chest. Once the two have made a mess of the kitchen and themselves, their bodies meld together in a seamless writhing mound of flesh as the smooth jazz soundtrack somewhat beguiles the hardcore action occurring on-screen. Overall, the scene is beautifully shot and composed with fantastic performances from both Tammy and Juli; not a bad debut at all. After lightly dabbling in porn for another year, Juli decided to make the plunge on her own terms. With her manager Lucky Smith, Juli negotiated an open contract with VCA making her the company’s first contract player. Juli worked for VCA before on "New Wave Hookers 4", and they were more than eager to initiate a prolonged relationship with one of porno up and coming starlets. The open clause in her contract guaranteed work from VCA but did not restrict her to performing solely in their productions. This would give her the freedom to pursue other interests later, but first she needed to fulfill her obligation to VCA. Juli’s first big project as a VCA contract girl was in Gregory Dark’s follow-up installment to the popular "Devil In Miss Jones" series. Titled "DMJ 5: The Inferno", Dark’s latest episode had no narrative connections to the previous films, which allowed him to construct a new story based around the new Justine Jones played by Juli. Although the two had first met during "New Wave Hookers 4", Juli and Greg worked closely on the new project to ensure Justine’s transformation was vivid and distinct. Between Dark’s twisted vision and Juli’s ferocious performance, "DMJ5" was destined to be a classic. "DMJ5" begins with Ms. Justine Jones’ introduction to hell. Adopting a plot structure similar to the original, at first Justine is a reserved young woman with several sexual hang-ups. However, by the end of the movie, she’s a total nymphomaniac, but sexually unavailable; Dark’s twisted take on purgatory. In the movie’s bizarre first scene Justine witnesses a live sex show while two older men in the audience fondle her and jack themselves off. In the second scene, it’s Justine’s chance to perform as the centerpiece of a Greek themed orgy…talk about a baptism of fire! Surrounded by four guys and the ever militant Jeanna Fine, Juli services cocks and dildos in just about every way imaginable. She even gets a sweaty DP with Jeanna pumping away from below with a strap-on, while the different guys take turns plugging her ass. Juli appears in all of the other scenes, but mainly as an observer and not a participant. Still, her presence is very noticeable as she masturbates throughout and slurps cum at the end of each scene. The movie concludes in a massive orgy where Juli pleads for attention but is ultimately ignored until the end when every guy uses her body to catch their flying goo. Just as the journey into hell had a transforming affect on Justine, Juli experienced an equally significant transformation in her image and career as a result of "DMJ5"’s immense success. Impressed with her performance in his previous picture, Cameron Grant promoted Juli to lead actress in his 1995 feature, "Passion In Venice". Unlike her scene in "The Dinner Party", "Passion In Venice" required Juli to play a character in addition to performing several sex scenes. Although the movie’s plot is somewhat vague and confusing, Juli’s performance is definitely above par in terms of acting and sexual prowess. In one of the film’s best scenes, Juli catches her boyfriend (Mark Davis) screwing another woman (Anita Blond) in a picturesque Venetian courtyard. Instead of approaching the two in anger, she stays back and masturbates, imagining herself involved in a three-way. Her vivid imagination has her sharing Mark’s cock with Anita as well as receiving a pretty good pounding. Juli’s other scenes are equally hot, including a girl/girl scene with Deborah Wells and another straight scene with Mark Davis set in a gazebo. In 1996, Juli appeared in Wicked Pictures’ big-budget pirate film, "Conquest". Starring alongside big-name industry contemporaries such as Jenna Jameson, Shayla La Veaux, and Asia Carrera, Juli outshines them all in her nasty little romp. Set on the deck a pirate ship, Juli takes on three sex-starved sea dogs in a nasty four-way. As always, Juli is at her best when the odds are stacked against her. She manages to service all three cocks with her hands and each available orifice, before the pirates dump their gooey treasure all over her. In addition to "Conquest", Juli co-starred in some of porn’s most memorable releases in the late 90s. Although her role was pretty obscure, she did appear in Michael Ninn’s "Shock". Juli was one of the girls (dressed in latex and sporting a strap-on) who ravishes Shayla LaVeaux toward the end of the movie. Juli continued to show her appetite for atypical encounters in Ninn’s "New Wave Hookers 5". Besides having a three-way with Asia Carrera and Vicca, Juli also takes on two old men in a somewhat bizarre (but still intense) scene. She also had the opportunity to rub (more than) elbows with Ginger Lynn and Marilyn Chambers in their comeback projects. In Veronica Hart’s "Still Insatiable", Juli had her first scene with Stacy Valentine. Although the setup was pretty simple, both Stacy and Juli really got into the scene and were reluctant to stop when Veronica yelled, “cut.” In 1999, Juli returned to the "DMJ" series in a small role as Nurse Ratchet. Sporting a costume rating high on the nurse fetish meter, Juli has a hot three-way with Chris Cannon and Nikita. Once again, Juli nearly steals the show in her supporting role….she just can’t help it. When not making supporting appearances in videos, Juli was busy headlining a number of VCA projects. In 1998, Juli starred in Jim Enright’s sci-fi video titled, "Vortex". In the movie she plays a scientist accidentally trapped in a time warp that thrusts her into various encounters with various people in different time periods. Before being bounced around the space time continuum, Juli has a hot scene with fellow scientist Tony Tedeschi. Later she gets transported into a sorority house where Rayeness and Johnni Black are more than eager to initiate her. The last scene is creatively shot in black and white as Juli gets it on with a cliche 1940s detective played by Ian Daniels. As the star of the movie, Juli’s scenes are excellent a
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