From the first adult entertainment movie I watched, I was under the impression that the actors all used fake names. However ,now is see Dillon Harper saying that is her name. Could someone weigh in on this for me? With all due respect to everyone I don't call it porn, that has a stigma attached to it. I prefer Adult entertainment as I believe all the people involved in it deserve to be see in a good light and be respected.
Yeah the overwhelming majority use an alias. There is the odd exception here and there. Another one is Cindy Crawford (the porn star, not the model) who obviously benefited from using her real name because there was already a hot famous person with the same name. The model tried to stop her from using that name too, but she couldn't do anything because it was the porn star's real name. edit to ask: where did you see Dillion Harper say that it's her real name? Edited by - killbillvol69 on 8/31/2014 8:53:57 PM
That is a darn good question. I believe it was during an interview on Utube. Once I came upon her on cinemax for softcore, I looked her up.Then went to utube to see everything I could. I am going back to check to make sure I am 95% sure she said it. Dillion Harper, if u by chance u read this and I am wrong, I am sorry. At first she was going to use the name Dillion but it sounded to much like a boys name so she went with Dillon. I will look into this in the morning and get back here with what I find. I will give you the Utube title if u want. Now , I feel like I am not on top of my game here. I will fix this, if I am wrong.
^ Hm. I think I found the interview you're talking about (I got curious). In this interview, just after the 12:00 mark, she does discuss the name, and she says her agent came up with it; she says she initially didn't like "Dillon" because she thought it sounded like "Dylan" which seemed too much of a boy's name. She doesn't say it, but I'm going to assume that this is why she changed it from "Dillon" to "Dillion" early in her career. So I don't think it's her real name. Anyway, none of that changes the real message here. Most performers use an alias, but there are a few who don't.
Some names - like Angela White - are so ordinary they couldn't possibly be made up. Personally, I love a comedy porn name: Plenty Uptopp being my all time fave, I think.