About Belladonna
Michelle Anne Sinclair, known professionally as Belladonna, is an American actress, director, producer, and former pornographic and adult model. Since announcing her retirement from pornography in 2012, she has acted in several mainstream films, including Inherent Vice and The Ladies of the House.
Belladonna grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah in a Mormon household. Her father was a retired Air Force captain and former Mormon Bishop. She has seven siblings: three brothers, three sisters and a half sister from her mother. Her parents are divorced and both have remarried.
She was formerly engaged to fellow porn actor Nacho Vidal. On April 11, 2004 she married Aiden Kelly in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her daughter, Myla, was born on January 11, 2005. In July 2012, Belladonna announced her retirement via Twitter.
Belladonna got into the adult film industry after she moved to Los Angeles to become a nude model. She has appeared in over 250 adult films with the majority of them being anal-themed. She now owns and operates Belladonna Entertainment with her partner and husband, Aiden Kelly. She produces her own movies under Belladonna Entertainment and Deadly Nightshade Productions, exclusively distributed by Evil Angel. Since 2004 she has exploded in popularity, taking the place of many more well-known longtime actresses who perform in standard/typical porn films.
She often starred in anal sex, interracial and lesbian-themed adult films, and has become best known and most popular for the latter. She has performed double anal (a rarity in the adult film industry) multiple times. She has also performed in scenes with transgender women, during which she has oral, anal, and vaginal sex, without condoms. She continued to perform while already visibly pregnant. She has built a reputation for her ability to perform in almost any theme in mainstream porn, and for her willingness to perform in almost any sexual scenario.
She has appeared several times in the reality television series Family Business, which focuses on the life of porn director Adam Glasser a.k.a. "Seymore Butts". In 2004 she was one of a number of porn stars photographed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders for a "coffee table book" on the adult industry, XXX: 30 Porn Star Photographs. She also appears in the HBO documentary Thinking XXX, about the making of the book.
Starting late 2003 Belladonna almost exclusively acted in lesbian scenes. She also started to direct and produce her own lesbian-themed films, in which she is almost always dominant. She often takes part in outlandish acts in lesbian scenes, and has built a fanbase based solely upon these films. In several of her lesbian films, she has showcased her ability to bring other actresses to squirting orgasms (many claiming it to be their first), and often performs intense and relentless anal penetrations on them with two or more fingers, or with extremely large dildos. Actresses performing with her sometimes show tears during the more intense performances, later claiming they enjoyed it more than any previous scenes they have taken part in with any other actor or actress.
She also frequently pulls their hair, spanks them, spits on them, and gives verbal commands or exchanges "dirty talk." Usually her female co-stars are more timid and petite women who act more in a submissive role, although occasionally she performs with another woman who is equally as intense and dominant as she is. When performing with an equally dominating actress, the scenes often become intense, to the extent that both she and her fellow performer have bruises after sex. In lesbian-based films, she generally prefers that those performing with her perform rough anal on her with either 3 or more fingers, or a large dildo in order to bring her to orgasm. It is these rough, dominant lesbian films for which she has become best known.
Though married to a man, Belladonna is bisexual.
