Years active: 1974 - 2000 (started around 18 years old; 26 years in the business)
About Erica Boyer
Erica Boyer (aka Amanda Margaret Jensen (née Gantt) - born December 22, 1956 in Andalusia, Alabama - died December 31, 2009 in Panama City Beach, Florida) was an American pornographic actress. She was a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Her father, Joseph Breckenridge "Joe Breck" Gantt, the son of a Covington County, Alabama sheriff, had in May 1965 as Assistant Attorney General been prosecutor in the mistrial against Collie Wilkens for the murder of civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo on March 25, 1965.
Prior to her porn debut, Erica worked at Mitchell brothers O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco dancing and doing live sex shows. Erica appeared in 184 features after starting her porn career with Beyond De Sade. Erica appeared in a total of 184 features after starting her porn career with "Cowgirls in Chains". She would come out of retirement to work with Marilyn Chambers again in the "XXX Dark Chambers". After her retirement, she had her own massage therapy business in Cocoa Beach, Florida and did volunteer work as a clown and face painter.
Erica died in a traffic accident on New Year's Eve, 2009, in Panama City Beach, FL, aged 53. At the time she was married to former NFL running back Derrick Jensen, whom she married in 1995, and the couple had a son, Davis, who was 12 years old at the time of her death. She reportedly died instantly when she was struck by an off-duty Florida Highway Patrol officer driving a 2001 4-door Hyundai.
1985 XRCO Award for Lascivious Lesbian - Body Girls (with Robin Everett)