| Misty Dawn | |
|---|---|
| Born | Laurie Rose May 15, 1963 |
| Other names | Laurie Holmes |
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
| Weight | 100 lb (45 kg; 7.1 st) |
| No. of adult films | 61 |
| Website | |
| http://www.johnholmes.com | |
Misty Dawn (born May 15, 1963 in Albuquerque, NM) is the pseudonym of adult film actress Laurie Rose.
Laurie Rose was married to the late adult film actor John Holmes from 1987 until his death from complications from AIDS on March 13, 1988. According to those who worked with her, the 5'2", 100-pound Rose looked far younger and would often dress to accentuate her youthful appearance in many of her numerous "loops" and 61 credited feature films.
According to porn journalist Luke Ford, the first time Rose met Holmes was in December, 1982 on the film set for the porn feature film Marathon in San Francisco soon after he was released from jail in connection with the Wonderland Murders, which involved the brutal quadruple slaying of the widely feared Wonderland Gang.
For a brief time in the mid-1980s, she and her husband John Holmes were in business with Bill Amerson in an adult film company known as Penquin Productions. The Holmes also lived at Amerson's mansion in the hills of Sherman Oaks. (Holmes was godfather to Amerson's children).
In 1998, Laurie Rose-Holmes released the John Holmes autobiography, Porn King.
In 1998, she also appeared in the documentary, Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes.
In 1999, Rose made a return to adult films after a 15-year retirement. She returned again in 2003 in the film Voyer Vision.
Laurie Rose-Holmes is one of twenty-five women of the golden era of adult films to be featured in the forthcoming 2012 book by John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches co-author Jill C. Nelson titled: Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985.