Jennifer Welles

Biography

Jennifer Welles was an American porn star chiefly active in the soft- and hardcore genres of the 1970s, although she began her acting career in the late 1960s in the sexploitation genre. Welles was also a fetish model for such magazines as Bizarre. Using the alias "Liza Duran," she appeared in a variety of softcore sexploitation and "roughie" grindhouse films produced in New York. Some of these include: Sex by Advertisement (1967), Career Bed, Submission, and This Sporting House directed by Henri Pachard (all from 1969). Welles appeared in many films, but the best known was Inside Jennifer Welles (1977), which she is also credited with having directed (although the film was actually anonymously directed by sex-exploitation veteran Joseph W. Sarno). She also appeared in a few mainstream films, most notably The Groove Tube opposite Chevy Chase. Welles won the Erotica Award for Best Actress in 1977 for the film Little Orphan Sammy, and was the editor of EROS, The Magazine of Decadent Sophistication, in that same year.

Most Known For

Confessions of a Young American Housewife

as Jennifer Robinson

Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town

as Drucilla

Misty

as Elaine

Sugar Cookies

as Max's Secretary

Sex by Advertisement

as Body Painting Model / Swinger (uncredited)

The Groove Tube

as The Geritan Girl

Is There Sex After Death?

as Merkin's Assistant

Mrs. Barrington

as Susan

The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego

as Myra

Submission

as Vickie

Love After Death

as Lesbian Brunette

Career Bed

as Susan (as Lisa Duran)

The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful

as Elizabeth

Scorpio '70

as Layne

A Weekend with Strangers

as Dilys

The Female Response

as Andrea

This Sporting House

as Ezmerelda

Expose Me, Lovely

as Shelly Knight

Little Blue Box

as Jen / Ms. Azure

Blonde Velvet

as Eva Kovack