Aurora Snow
Aurora Snow is a retired American pornographic film actress, director, and columnist.
Also recorded as Rebecca Claire Kensington · Aurora · Kim · Rebecca Kensington
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- Name
- Aurora Snow
- Birthplace
- United States
- Education
- University of California, Irvine Glendale Community College
- Occupation
- Writer, director, pornographic film performer
- Full name
- Rebecca Claire Kensington.
- Born
- 1981 · Santa Maria.
- Fields
- pornographic film
- Honours
- AVN Female Performer of the Year Award
- Languages
- English
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Biography
Biography
Aurora Snow studied at University of California, Irvine and Glendale Community College. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are pornographic film. Employment is recorded with Kink.com. Distinctions recorded are AVN Female Performer of the Year Award.
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Aurora Snow appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a “Pornodarstellerin” (born 26 November 1981). Aurora Snow was born on 26 November 1981 in Santa Maria, California.

Aurora Snow at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo on January 9, 2009
Aurora Snow AVN Expo 2009.jpg: Jimi Photog *derivative work: 1990Rebecca · This file was derived from: Aurora Snow AVN Expo 2009.jpg
Taken at the AVN expo when Aurora was signing autographs
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Aurora Snow • Birthplace — United States • Education — University of California, Irvine Glendale Community College • Occupation — Writer, director, pornographic film performer
Early life
Early life
Snow was raised by a single mother and was the oldest of three siblings.
Mainstream media appearances
Mainstream media appearances
Snow appeared in the 2002 feature film The Rules of Attraction as Masked Naked Girl at Party. Snow made a cameo appearance in the Judd Apatow film Superbad. On January 6, 2010, Snow appeared in an episode of 1000 Ways to Die titled "Death On Arrival" to discuss edible underwear during the "Way to Die #444: Deadliest Munch" segment of the episode. On March 12, 2013, Snow appeared on The Young Turks to discuss racism in pornography and the reasons why some Caucasian pornographic film actresses refuse to do interracial sex scenes. Snow has been a contributor for The Daily Beast and Glammonitor, writing articles about the porn industry and women's issues. On March 6, 2014, Snow spoke at Harvard Law School on the topic of "Sex, Drugs, and Rolling Dice: The Regulation of Vice." On March 19, 2015, Snow spoke at the University of South Carolina School of Law on "Vice, Porn and American Culture."
Personal life
Personal life
In September 2013, Snow wrote an article for The Daily Beast titled "A Porn Star's Letter to Her Unborn Son" in which she announced she was pregnant with her first child and stated how she would explain her choice to work in the porn industry to her son once he is older. The letter quickly went viral on the Internet. She gave birth to her son in December 2013. Her father stated that he was proud upon finding out about her occupation.
Adult films
Snow entered the pornographic entertainment industry when she was 18 years old, planning to work in porn for only a year. One of her first professionally made and distributed movies was More Dirty Debutantes 152, produced by Ed Powers. Snow was a contract performer and director for Sin City between May 2003 and May 2005. She made her directorial debut for the company with the film Assploitations. Snow hosted Private Calls on Playboy TV. In July 2010, she reported on the obscenity case against John Stagliano for Adult Video News. Despite not using condoms during most of her scenes, she came out as one of the few performers in favor of the 2012 Measure B vote in Los Angeles, mandating the use of condoms for all pornographic movie scenes. Snow left the pornographic film industry after ten years in 2011 and moved from Los Angeles to Macon, Missouri.
Awards
• 2003 XRCO Award – Best Threeway Sex Scene (for Trained Teens) with Gauge & Jules Jordan • 2003 AVN Award – Female Performer of the Year • 2011 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee • 2017 AVN Hall of Fame inductee
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- 1.Snow, Aurora. Retired Porn Star's Bittersweet Return to the Spotlight. The Daily Beast. April 11, 2017.
- 2.Snow, Aurora. How a Porn Star Retires: Aurora Snow on Life After Porn. The Daily Beast. June 18, 2013.
- 3.Walther, Carla Cain. Mom Used To Be A Porn Star: Aurora Snow Shares Her Story. Wewomen.com. September 20, 2014.
- 4.Street, Sharan. Class of 2017: The AVN Hall of Fame's Newest Inductees. Adult Video News. December 28, 2016.
- 5.Snow, Aurora. Porn Star Aurora Snow Goes from Barely Legal to MILF. The Daily Beast. August 9, 2010.
- 6.Snow, Aurora. The Porn Stars Giving the Middle Finger to Father Time. The Daily Beast. November 7, 2021.
- 7.Sin City Entertainment Signs Aurora Snow. Adult Video News. May 21, 2003.
- 8.Aurora Snow Signs New Two-Year Deal With Sin City/Mayhem. Adult Video News. May 26, 2004.
- 9.Andersson, Acme. Sin City Terminates Aurora Snow Contract. Adult Video News. May 31, 2005.
- 10.Andersson, Acme. Aurora Snow's Assploitations 2 In Stores. Adult Video News. February 4, 2004.
- 11.Snow, Aurora. Aurora Snow Blogs for AVN from Stagliano Trial. Adult Video News. July 14, 2010.
- 12.Snow, Aurora. Aurora Snow: Trial and Error in the Nation's Capital. Adult Video News. July 15, 2010.
- 13.Snow, Aurora. Condoms in Porn: One Adult Star Says Yes to Measure B. The Daily Beast. October 18, 2012.
- 14.Aurora Snow. The New York Times. n.d.
- 15.Spike. Death On Arrival - Episode 201. January 6, 2010.
- 16.Adult film actress Aurora Snow: 'I think that racism actually does still exist [in porn]'. The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur. March 12, 2013.
- 17.Aurora Snow. The Daily Beast.
- 18.Aurora Snow. Glammonitor.
- 19.Dickson, EJ. Retired porn star Aurora Snow hits Harvard to talk about the new politics of porn. The Daily Dot. March 4, 2014.
- 20.Snow, Aurora. Aurora Snow speaks at USC School of Law on Porn Industry. March 22, 2015.
- 21.Snow, Aurora. A Porn Star's Letter to Her Unborn Son. The Daily Beast. September 30, 2013.
- 22.Berry, Latonya. Retired Porn Star Writes a Letter to Her Unborn Child. MetroParent. October 2, 2013.
- 23.Williams, Lachlan. Porn star's touching letter to her unborn son. Ninemsn. October 1, 2013.
- 24.Soto, Roxana A. Porn star writes brutally honest letter to her unborn son. Mamás Latinas. October 8, 2013.
- 25.Snow, Aurora. No Sex For Six Weeks After Giving Birth? It's Too Long!. The Daily Beast. December 27, 2013.
- 26.Snow, Aurora. My Daughter the Porn Star. The Daily Beast. May 30, 2017.
- 27.Pike-Johnson, Heidi. Evil Angel's The Fashionistas Big Winner At XRCOs Thursday Night. Adult Video News. April 4, 2003.
- 28.Heidi Pike-Johnson. 2003 AVN Awards Winners Announced: Awards Presented Big Year for Evil Angel. Adult Video News. January 21, 2003.
- 29.Warren, Peter. XRCO Announces 2011 Nominations. Adult Video News. February 22, 2011.
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