Years Active as Performer 1974-2003 Years Active as Director 1980-1997 Aliases: Miss Sharon Mitchell With a career spanning three decades, Sharon Mitchell has earned herself a place among porns most loved and respected women. With over 2000 appearances in XXX films to her name, each as sizzling hot as the last, Sharon has earned herself a 1982 Critics Adult Film Award for the movie Blue Jeans, a 1983 Critics' Adult Film Award each for the movie Sexcapades and Night Hunger, a 1984 AVN Award also for the movie Sexcapades, the X-rated Critics Organization's Best Actress Award, the 1995 Free Speech Coalition's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dannis Hard Drive National Human Services Award. She was also elected to the XRCO Performers Hall of Fame in 1988. In addition to her titillating talent both in front of and behind the camera as a performer, producer, and director, she is also the co-founder of the Adult Industry Medical HealthCare Foundation, where she assists adult performers in chemical dependency and STD counseling. While Sharon often comes across as very masculine and tough, in reality she also has a very soft and feminine side with an energy level and element of reality beyond anyones wildest dreams.