Angel Kelly (born December 7, 1962) is a retired pornographic actress. With Jeannie Pepper and Heather Hunter, Kelly was among the first African-American women to "cross over" into mainstream porn video. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. Career At age 19, Kelly began working in a peep show booth in an establishment called Cinema X in Michigan and would work there for two years. Afterwards, she began dancing topless at a bar and was approached by a photographer to appear in adult magazines. She would appear in magazines such as Cheri and Players, which led to offers to do adult films. Kelly began her film career in 1985. During the period in which she was most active, 1986 through 1988, she made more than 100 original films — 53 in 1987 alone — but by the early-1990s she was appearing in fewer than five films a year. Kelly's final performance in an original film was in 1991. Kelly was the first African American female star to receive a contract in the Adult Film Industry when she signed with Fantasy Home Video. On January 12, 2008, Kelly was inducted into the Adult Video News Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame on April 16, 2009. Mainstream appearances In 1996, Kelly and Heather Hunter appeared in the music video of Tupac Shakur's How Do U Want It. References External links African-American pornographic film actors American pornographic film actresses Living people Actresses from Lansing, Michigan People from Memphis, Tennessee Pornographic film actors from Michigan Pornographic film actors from Tennessee 1962 births 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women