Annette Haven (also known as Nanette Heaven, Annette Funette, and Cheryl Nelson) was born on December 1st, 1954 as Annette Martin in Las Vegas. She grew up in a very conservative Mormon family - when she fell in love with her 20 year old boyfriend, she left home to get married. The marriage only lasted two years because of some very messed up circumstances and domestic violence. During this time, she worked as a nurses aide, was into nude modeling, and a massage parlour.

Once her husband was locked up in a state mental hospital, she went to San Francisco following their divorce. When she was younger, she had learned ballet, which left her toned and lithe body with a fluid grace that was perfect for erotic dancing. As luck would have it, she met Bonnie Holiday and ended up moving in with her and her boyfriend. Bonnie ended up talking her into costaring with her in Lady Freaks (1973) - she only had sex with Bonnie and thoroughly enjoyed herself. She does admit that she was a bit nervous about the camera. Her first hardcore scene with a man came a year later in Deep Tango.

She went back to college to major in video technology in 1974, but found herself back in the adult film industry in 1976. She was very popular for both her looks and her attitude by both the viewers and producers. She very much loved to star in adult films and had constant calls from producers for more and more roles - Annette Haven really was one of the first porn superstars.

Annette Haven is one of the better known classic pornstars in the industry, and while she was very picky about the porn movies that she ended up starring in, that made the ones she did take a part in that much more memorable. She stayed within the realm of respectful porn, being vehelmetly against any films containing violence, facials, or bondage, although she did do some soft bondage and fetish work when she felt it added to the story, or that it wasn’t degrading to women.

Her porn career mostly ended in the late 1980s as fresher starlets came onto the scene, and production values went down. She ended up going back to college once more, this time to study computer programing At one point she did show back up in the 1990s. This was to get back together with her favorite 70s porn costar Jamie Gillis and Kim Wylde for several fetish videos.

She has also appeared in a few mainstream films - Blake Edwards’ 10 and Body Double are a few of the mainstream movies she’s worked with. As far as what she’s doing today, Annette Haven lives with her husband in Mill Valley, California.