Karen Summer

Karen Summer
Born July 22, 1962[1]
San Fernando Valley, California, U.S.[2]
Other names Karin Summers, Dana Alpher, Karin Sommers, Karren Summers, Ricky Lane, Karen Summers, Maria Johnson, Karen Sommers, Michelle Lee, Michel Lee, Michel Leigh, Rickie Lane & Karen Sommars[1]
Ethnicity Jewish[2]
Years active 1982-1993[3][4]
2014–present[5]
Height 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[1]
No. of adult films 159 (per IAFD)[1]

Karen Summer (born July 22, 1962) is an American pornographic actress. Summer was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2015.

Early life

Summer was raised in Tarzana and Encino, Los Angeles.[5] She worked as an extra, photo double, stand-in, and production assistant in the mainstream entertainment industry prior to working in porn.[3][5] She worked on The Dukes of Hazzard for three years.[3][5]

Career

Summer entered the adult film industry in 1982 when she was 20 years old.[4] She was introduced to the industry by Jim South, whom she met at an El Torito.[5][6] She did her first photo shoot with Bobby Hollander in the summer of that year.[6] Her first scene was in the film Shades of Ecstasy.[5][6] She initially used the stage name Ricky Lane before changing it to her current stage name after approximately six months in the business.[5] She quit performing in adult films in 1993.[3][4] For the most part, she spent the last five years of her career working as a feature dancer and burlesque performer.[6]

In 2014, Summer returned to the industry after she ran into Nina Hartley, who encouraged her to resume her adult film career.[5] She filmed her first interracial sex scene that year for the Dogfart Network website BlacksOnCougars.com.[7] She currently hosts her own show on XXX Porn Star Radio.[3][5] She plans to start her own production company, SummerSun Productions, with Sonny Malone in 2015.[6]

Personal life

Summer lived in Florida for twenty years during her hiatus from porn.[4] She was married for ten years[4] and got divorced in 2000.[3][5] She was a paralegal and also worked in the health care field.[3][4][5] She moved back to Los Angeles in February 2014.[5]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Karen Summer at the Internet Adult Film Database
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 AVN Staff (2014-12-24). "Class of 2015: Meet the AVN Hall of Fame Inductees". AVN. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Dustin Nichols (2014-07-21). "Adult Film Legend Karen Summer on How Porn Has Changed". Man Cave Daily. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Dan C. (2014-08-22). "9 Questions with Karen Summer". Die-Screaming. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10 5.11 Mark Kernes (2014-05-23). "Karen Summer's Back and Ready for Action". AVN. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Karen Summer – Interview". Lusty Mature. 2014-11-04. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
  7. ↑ "Golden Age Star Karen Summer Does Her First IR for Dogfart". AVN. 2014-12-23. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
  8. ↑ Mark Kernes (2015-01-27). "Legends of Erotica Inducts 7 Adult Industry Veterans". AVN. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
  9. ↑ Allen Smithberg (2015-02-25). "XRCO Announces 2015 Hall of Fame Inductees". AVN. Retrieved 2015-02-25.

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