
About
Annie Sprinkle
Overview
Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., is a ground breaking feminist artist, long time filmmaker, and certified sexologist. From 1974 to 1996 Sprinkle worked on 100+ adult feature films. Sprinkle has appeared in dozens of documentaries and six B movies,before becoming an internationally renowned performance artist and an independent filmmaker. The connections she made along the way shaped her involvement in feminist politics, human rights, and freedom of expression; and she remains avidly committed to all of these ideals. Films Annie Sprinkle has directed/produced have shown in hundreds of film festivals around the world. Sluts & Goddesses (1990) broke new ground in feminist films. Sprinkle was a paid consultant for HBO’s The Deuce with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Annie Sprinkle’s 2027 film, Water Makes Us Wet, premiered at the prestigious German art festival, documenta 14 (where she also performed, lectured and had an exhibition), and then screened at NY’s MoMA. A few of her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking, four San Francisco Arts Commission grants, the Kathy Acker Award for Achievement in the Avant Garde (2014), the Artist/Scholar/Activist Award from Performance Studies International at Stanford (2013) and Tom of Finland Lifetime Achievement Award (2020). Her archive is housed at Harvard. These days Annie Sprinkle is screening the third film in her queer environmental documentary film trilogy, Playing with Fire—An Ecosexual Emergancy. She’s also on an HBO special, Dear Ms.—A Revolution in Print. At 71 years old, Sprinkle is still active in filmmaking.
Known for
Acting |
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2025 | Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2025 | Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2025 | A Body to Live In | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2022 | The Unabridged Mrs. Vera's Daybook | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2022 | Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2021 | Smut Without Smut: Satanic Horror Nite | Actor | (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
2021 | Genderation | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2020 | Female Ejaculation & Other Mysteries of the Universe | Actor | Herself | N/A N/A |
2019 | The Celluloid Bordello | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2019 | Ecosex, a User's Manual | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2019 | Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2016 | Exotic | Actor | 58 Average |
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2014 | Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2013 | UnHung Hero | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2013 | The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2012 | Lesbian Sex Education: Female Ejaculation | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2010 | Desiree Cousteau & Friends: Big & Natural | Actor | (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
2009 | Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism | Actor | Self - Interviewee | 58 Average |
2008 | Sex: The Revolution | Actor | 69 Fair |
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2008 | Sick & Nasty Classic Porn Previews | Actor | (archive) | N/A N/A |
2007 | NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2007 | Seka Triple Feature | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2006 | Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star | Actor | Herself | 58 Average |
2005 | Electra Elf: The Beginning | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2005 | The Keep | Actor | Herself | N/A N/A |
2004 | When Rated X Ruled the World | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2004 | The Naked Feminist | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2002 | The Prince of Porn | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2001 | Bad Girl | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2001 | The Real Linda Lovelace | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2000 | Give Me Your Soul... | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
1999 | Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1999 | Herstory of Porn: Reel to Real | Actor | Herself | 58 Average |
1999 | Ecstasy in Entropy | Actor | 58 Average |
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1998 | Lucky People Center International | Actor | 59 Average |
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1997 | Erotica: A Journey Into Female Sexuality | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1996 | I Was a Jewish Sex Worker | Actor | Herself | 58 Average |
1996 | Bubbles Galore | Actor | God | 58 Average |
1996 | Affliction | Actor | 58 Average |
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1995 | Fire in the Valley – Female Genital Massage | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1994 | Straight for the Money | Actor | Herself | N/A N/A |
1993 | Post-Porn Modernist: My 25 Years as a Multimedia Whore | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1992 | Female Misbehavior | Actor | Herself | 58 Average |
1992 | Sluts & Goddesses | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1992 | The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop or How to be a Goddess in 101 Easy Steps | Actor | herself | N/A N/A |
1992 | Blut für die Götter | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1992 | War Is Menstrual Envy | Actor | 58 Average |
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1991 | Sacred Sex | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1991 | Shadows in the City | Actor | Ex-Girlfriend | N/A N/A |
1991 | The Golden Boat | Actor | Waitress | 59 Average |
1991 | My Father Is Coming | Actor | Annie | 58 Average |
1990 | A 25 Year Old Gay Man Loses His Virginity to a Woman | Actor | Herself | 58 Average |
1989 | Linda/Les and Annie | Actor | 59 Average |
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1989 | Annie | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1989 | Current Flow | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1988 | Charles Gatewood's Forbidden Photographs | Actor | Herself | N/A N/A |
1988 | Mondo New York | Actor | Rapping & Rocking | 58 Average |
1988 | The Horneymooners | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1987 | Young Nurses in Love | Actor | Twin Falls | 58 Average |
1987 | Rites of Passion | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
1986 | She Comes in Colors | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1986 | Wimps | Actor | Head Stripper | 58 Average |
1985 | Spitfire | Actor | Lulu | 58 Average |
1984 | Electric Blue 15 | Actor | Shelly (segment "Bobby's Boobies") | 59 Average |
1984 | Throat: 12 Years After | Actor | The Sewer Mother | 58 Average |
1983 | Oriental Techniques in Pain and Pleasure | Actor | Annie (as annie Sprinkles) | N/A N/A |
1983 | Kneel Before Me | Actor | Wife / Justine (as Annie Sprinkles) | N/A N/A |
1982 | Consenting Adults | Actor | Annie Sprinkle | N/A N/A |
1981 | Pandora's Mirror | Actor | The Queen of the Club | 58 Average |
1981 | Bizarre Styles | Actor | Annie | 58 Average |
1981 | Twilight Pink | Actor | Prostitute | 59 Average |
1981 | Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
1981 | Centerfold Fever | Actor | Annie | N/A N/A |
1980 | The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue | Actor | Satisfier | 58 Average |
1979 | Jack+Jill | Actor | First Caller | 59 Average |
1979 | For Richer for Poorer | Actor | Girl at Party | N/A N/A |
1978 | French Shampoo | Actor | Little Mary | N/A N/A |
1978 | The Ganja Express | Actor | Sherry Herring | N/A N/A |
1977 | Cherry Hustlers | Actor | Sprink | N/A N/A |
1977 | The Devil Inside Her | Actor | Orgy Girl | 58 Average |
1977 | The Double Exposure of Holly | Actor | Muff | 58 Average |
1977 | Unwilling Lovers | Actor | Hooker with Stole | 58 Average |
1976 | The Affairs of Janice | Actor | Susan | 58 Average |
1976 | Come with Me My Love | Actor | Tess Albertino | 58 Average |
1976 | Call Me Angel, Sir | Actor | Tracy Dixon | N/A N/A |
1976 | Bang Bang You Got It! | Actor | Rhoda Thomas | N/A N/A |
1976 | My Erotic Fantasies | Actor | Russian Porn Actress | N/A N/A |
1976 | Slippery When Wet | Actor | Stella Wilkins | 58 Average |
1976 | Seduction | Actor | Girl at the Bridge Party #1 | N/A N/A |
1976 | The Night of Submission | Actor | Editor's Mistress | 58 Average |
1976 | Once Over Nightly | Actor | Samantha | N/A N/A |
1976 | Expose Me, Lovely | Actor | Robin | 58 Average |
1976 | Teenage Deviate | Actor | Ella | 58 Average |
1976 | Ecstasy in Blue | Actor | Hentai | N/A N/A |
1976 | Honey Pie | Actor | Blow Job Annie | 59 Average |
1976 | M*A*S*H'd | Actor | Gail | 58 Average |
1976 | Teenage Cover Girls | Actor | Anne Sands | N/A N/A |
1976 | Pornocopia Sensual | Actor | Susan | N/A N/A |
1975 | Sherlick Holmes | Actor | Harry's Girl | 58 Average |
1975 | Kathy's Graduation Present | Actor | Anita | N/A N/A |
1975 | Teenage Masseuse | Actor | Annie | 59 Average |
1975 | My Master My Love | Actor | Margaret's Brunette Client | 58 Average |
1975 | Sue Prentiss, R.N. | Actor | First Nurse (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
1975 | Satan Was a Lady | Actor | Terry | 58 Average |
1975 | Fanny | Actor | June | N/A N/A |
1975 | Blow Some My Way | Actor | B.J. | N/A N/A |
Directing |
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2025 | Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2019 | Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2014 | Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1999 | Herstory of Porn: Reel to Real | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1993 | Post-Porn Modernist: My 25 Years as a Multimedia Whore | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1992 | Sluts & Goddesses | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1989 | Linda/Les and Annie | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1987 | Rites of Passion | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1981 | Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
Writing |
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1992 | Sluts & Goddesses | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1987 | Rites of Passion | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1982 | Consenting Adults | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1981 | Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
Production |
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2025 | Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
2012 | Mommy Is Coming | Production | Casting Director | 58 Average |
1992 | Sluts & Goddesses | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
Camera |
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2025 | Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
1987 | Rites of Passion | Camera | Still Photographer | N/A N/A |
1982 | Consenting Adults | Camera | Still Photographer | N/A N/A |
Editing |
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1992 | Sluts & Goddesses | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
1987 | Rites of Passion | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |