Career

Over her four-decade career, Allen's credits include a variety of roles and jobs. These include actress/performer, director, writer, producer, and assistant director.

Early life

Born in Illinois, Ginger Lynn Allen moved to California in 1982 after hearing about her grandfather's heart attack. Following her grandfather's death, a male friend came to live with her and became her "first nice boyfriend". Allen was the major financial supporter in the relationship and needed to find a higher-paying job. When she answered an advertisement from the World Modeling Agency in September 1983, she was immediately hired and did a pictorial for Penthouse, which brought her to the attention of the adult film industry.

Adult industry

Allen began as a nude model and then began performing in hardcore sex films as Ginger Lynn by December 1983. Her first pornographic video role was in Surrender in Paradise, in which she starred with Jerry Butler. Allen's "girl next door" good looks led to a quick rise in her popularity and eventually she became one of the most popular female performers in adult-entertainment history. She had her own line of videos through Vivid Entertainment with director Bruce Seven. Allen received the Best New Starlet award in 1985 and is an inductee to the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) halls of fame. Allen was the first Vivid Entertainment 'Vivid Girl', beating out the then-underaged Traci Lords. She was later called to testify on Lords' behalf against porn producers; she refused, and according to her, was then targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for falsification of a tax return.

Mainstream

In February 1986, Allen decided to stop making adult videos and establish a career in mainstream films using her full name. She appeared in several non-adult films, television shows and even interactive movie segments of the Wing Commander computer games. She started her career in mainstream features with a small part in the western Young Guns II, which co-starred her future boyfriend Charlie Sheen's brother, Emilio Estevez.

Allen was the subject of an episode of the documentary series E! True Hollywood Story in 2002. Allen appeared in another episode about her relationship with actor Charlie Sheen in 2010.

In December 2005, she appeared in American Pie: Band Camp (2005) playing the supporting role of Nurse Sanders. In the same year, she portrayed Fanny in Rob Zombie's thriller film The Devil's Rejects and starred as Cherry Bomb in Zombie's slasher film 31.

Adult return

Allen returned to the adult-entertainment industry in 1999 for three movies: Torn (1999), White Lightning (2000), and New Wave Hookers 6 (2000). In March 2006, she became a host of Playboy Radio's Sirius Satellite Radio show, Night Calls Radio, with former adult film actress Christy Canyon. In June 2007, Allen performed for two of Kink.com's hardcore websites, Ultimate Surrender and Sex and Submission. In 2008, Allen appeared in the films Dirty Rotten Mother Fuckers with James Deen (24 years younger than her) and Seasoned Players 4 with Tom Byron, then performed in more than a dozen hardcore releases in each of the next two years.

Personal life

Relationships

Allen had a two-year relationship with Charlie Sheen from 1990 to 1992, and accompanied him through drug rehabilitation. Despite the well-known allegations that Sheen is physically violent towards women, Lynn said she never saw the actor become abusive in the slightest, "Not one time did he raise his voice. No violence," she said. She also had a long-term relationship with Los Angeles radio personality Ralph Garman.

Legal Issues

In 1991, Lynn was charged with willfully subscribing to a false tax return, in regard to a relatively small amount, $2087.04. She was convicted, and served three months and seventeen days in federal prison, losing most of her career earnings on legal fees.

Family

In a 2003 interview, she described herself as the "single mother of a five-year-old son."

Health

Allen was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2000. She underwent a total hysterectomy and some chemotherapy, and is regarded as cancer-free.

Partial filmography

Adult

• Taken (2001) - 2002 AVN Award for Best Actress
• Beverly Hills Cox (1986)
• Ten Little Maidens (1985) - AVN Awards 1986 Best Couples Sex Scene
• Project: Ginger (1985) - AVN Awards 1986 Best Actress - Video
• New Wave Hookers (1985)
• Kinky Business (1985) - AVN Awards 1985 Best Couple in a Sex Scene (with Tom Byron)
• Electric Blue 28 (1985)
• Slumber Party (1984) - AVN Awards 1986 Best Couple in a Sex Scene (with Eric Edwards)
• The Pink Lagoon (1984)
• Surrender in Paradise (1984)
• Taboo 4 (1985) the younger generation
• Ginger Lynn: The Movie (1988) - AVN Awards 2006 Best Classic Release on DVD

Mainstream media

Film

• National Lampoon's Van Wilder The Rise of Taj (2007)
• Kisses and Caroms (aka American Pool) (2006)
• American Pie Presents Band Camp (2005)
• The Devil's Rejects (2005)
• Save Virgil (2004)
• Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain (2003)
• The Independent (2000)
• The Last Late Night (1999)
• God's Lonely Man (1996)
• The Stranger (1995)
• Ultimate Taboo (1995)
• Trouble Bound (1993)
• Mind, Body & Soul (1992)
• Leather Jackets (1992)
• Bound & Gagged: A Love Story (1992)
• Vice Academy Part 3 (1991)
• Whore (1991)
• Young Guns II (1990)
• Buried Alive (1990)
• Vice Academy Part 2 (1990)
• Hollywood Boulevard II (1989)
• Cleo/Leo (1989)
• Satan's Storybook (1989)
• Vice Academy (1989)
• Dr. Alien (1989)
• Wild Man (1989)

TV

• Dave's Old Porn (2012)
• The Dog Whisperer (2010)
• Skin (2003)
• Metallica (music video) - Turn the Page (1998)
• Silk Stalkings (1994)
• NYPD Blue (1993)
• Super Force (1991)

Other

• Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger, Wing Commander: Prophecy (computer games) as Chief Technician Rachel Coriolis
• Night Calls on Playboy Radio with Christy Canyon on Sirius Satellite Radio
• She has appeared in pictorials for Playboy, Cinema Blue, Chéri, High Society, Club International, and Celebrity Sleuth
• The Ginger Lynn Show on KSEX Radio in Los Angeles
• In the music video for Metallica's cover of "Turn the Page", she portrayed a stripper/prostitute traveling with her child.
• She provided a voice for the song "Ginger Snaps/Monkey Business" for Danger Danger's second album, Screw It!

Awards

• 1984 XRCO Starlet of the Year
• 1984 XRCO Video Vixen
• 1984 XRCO Female Performer of the Year
• 1985 AVN Best New Starlet
• 1985 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene - Film for Kinky Business (with Tom Byron)
• 1986 AVN Best Actress - Video for Project: Ginger
• 1986 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene - Video for Slumber Party (with Eric Edwards)
• 2000 XRCO Best Girl-Girl Scene for Torn (with Chloe)
• 2002 AVN Best Actress - Film for Taken
• AVN Hall of Fame
• 1995 XRCO Hall of Fame
• 2002 NightMoves Adult Entertainment Hall of Fame

[ Source: Wikipedia ]