Sharon Thorpe

About Sharon Thorpe

Sharon Thorpe was a striking brunette actress who made a strong and arousing mark in a handful of hardcore films made throughout the 1970's Golden Age of Adult Cinema. She is also known as Shairn Most, Joanna Savage, Julie Holmes.

Thorpe grew up in a few extremely repressive small towns in the Midwest. When she was twelve her parents began collecting various books about sex, thereby instilling in Thorpe the basic belief that sex is both healthy and natural. She went to New York at age seventeen to attend college. Following graduation from college Thorpe moved to San Francisco and worked as a secretary.

She became involved in the adult entertainment industry in the early 1970's after a friend of hers answered a newspaper ad for a hardcore movie. Although her friend ultimately got cold feet, Thorpe nonetheless decided to check the whole thing out after taking a phone call from the filmmakers to the place where Thorpe and her friend both worked. She was often paired with John Leslie. Thorpe gave an especially moving and impressive performance as the painfully shy and timid Lisa Hill in SexWorld (1978). She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1985.


Biography: Porn star Sharon Thorpe was one of the stalwarts of early adult films, appearing in almost thirty hardcore flicks during the 1970's. Sharon Thorpe had a lovely small-breasted figure that stood in contrast to the breasty vixens that were typical in early hardcore. Thorpe's delectable frame was put through its sexual paces by most of the top studs of the decade, and she always ended up giving it out as well as she took it. She was a frequent on-screen partner of John Leslie, with whom she turned in some of the lustiest romps of her carnal career. Thorpe starred as his wife in 1976's 'Coming Attractions,' appearing in four full-fledged sex scenes in the course of the film.

One of Thorpe's favorite parts was in 'Tapestry Of Passion,' where she turns out John Leslie in an early scene before a torrid tryst with porn legend John Holmes. Thorpe also met up with John Holmes' huge talent in 1975's 'All Night Long,' one of his earliest starring turns. Fans who want to catch one of Thorpe's most sensual performances will want to check her out in 'Fantasy Girls,' where she plays a sexy massage parlor employee who knows just how to get a big tip from her customers.

Sharon Thorpe left the business in 1980, but still turns up occasionally in compilations. She's a certified legend of porn, and was one of the first women elected to the XRCO Performers' Hall Of Fame.

sidebar: Director Barry Spinello made ‘A Film About Sharon’ about Sharon Thorpe in 1975 – the same year he made the Academy Award-nominated short ‘A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo’.