Born | Michelle Barry[1][2] |
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Website | |
www.brittanyandrews.com |
Brittany Andrews is the stage name of Michelle Barry,[1][2] an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer and film producer. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.[3]
She worked in a Milwaukee beauty supply company before starting her career as an exotic dancer.[4] After doing photo shoots for men's magazines, she began her career in adult film after meeting Jenna Jameson in 1995, during a photo shoot for Hustler magazine in Jamaica.[4]
In December 2003, Brittany Andrews was appointed to the Women In Adult (WIA) Board of Directors as the Talent Liaison. [5]
In addition to her adult film work she hosts several cable TV shows, including Playboy TV and Talking Blue, which she co-produces.[4] At her self-owned Britco Pictures studio,[6] Andrews starred in, directed and produced pornographic movies such as the strap-on movie Brittany's Bitch Boys,[7] and Lesbians in Lust.[8]
Andrews has promoted using a condom for hardcore sex scenes.[9]
In 2007, Andrews was featured on an episode of The Tyra Banks Show, where she discussed webcam girls.[10]
In February 2008, Andrews retired from porn,[11] and held a Presidents Day party announcing that she was moving to New York to attend film school at the New York Film Academy.[12] However in 2010 Andrews returned to the business to star in the adult film Sex and the City: A XXX Parody.[13]
Andrews has started her own mainstream film production company Discipline Filmworks. In 2010, she produced and appeared in the short film Crumble.[14][15] The film had its world premiere at the 2010 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, where it won a number of awards including Audience Award for Short Film, Best Actor in a Short Film (for Steven Bauer) and Best Actress in a Short Film (Oksana Lada).[16] She has also acted as executive producer for the film Trick of the Witch.[17]