If you grew up with a mom-and-pop video store in your neighborhood, the name Amber Lynn will be very familiar with those of you who went behind the curtain at the back of the store. The name Amber Lynn conjures up visions of a lustful lollapalooza of a performer who looked like she stepped out of an 80s music video and into your most intense visions of eroticism.
Those visions only tell a small part of Amber’s story, though. She’s an accomplished mainstream actress who has worked with talents ranging from John Frankenheimer to Michael Douglas. She hosted the Rock-N-Sexxxy Podcast for eight seasons of conversations with performers of all stripes. She’s won awards for her humanitarian work, advocating for animals, children, and many other causes.
A true renaissance woman, I’ve been hoping to interview Amber Lynn for over a decade, and with the help of my dear friend Shelley Michelle, as well as super-agent Roger Paul, I was able to speak to Amber on Monday, September 7th, 2026. I hope you all enjoy getting to know one of the kindest and most open-hearted talents in entertainment, period.
Warning: Although there are no explicit pictures, there will be some NSFW discussion in this article, so please be careful where you’re reading it.
Say hello to Amber Lynn!
Amber: Hello.
Johnny: Hello, Ms. Lynn. Johnny Caps here.
Amber: Hi, Johnny Caps. How ya doin’?
Johnny: I’m doing very well. First of all, thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to speak to me.
Amber: Okay. Well, it’s my pleasure.
Johnny: Alright. I have my questions ready to go, so to begin with, you’ll soon be returning to the Chiller Theatre convention, so what makes Chiller stand out for you among the conventions you attend?
Amber: Well, this will be my third trip, as we say, to Chiller, and I am looking forward to it. This will actually be a first at Chiller for me as it will be my first October show and Halloween show. I’ve always wanted to go to the Halloween show. As you know, Chiller has two shows. One is in April, and one is in October, and the larger of the two is rumored to be the October show.
Because it’s on Halloween, which is my favorite holiday, it also has a Halloween vibe where you can choose to dress up if you want to or not. Both shows that I originally attended, due to my scheduling and availability, worked out so that I attended the April show. I’ve always wanted to attend the October show. It’s been a long time since I was at Chiller, and I’m looking forward to going back now.
The only downside that I can see, although I’m super-excited about going, is that we recently just lost Kevin, the founder of the show, and I won’t be able to see his face at Chiller this year, but I’m very close to a lot of the people from Chiller, and I’ve made pretty much lifelong friends from some of the people there, so I’m looking forward to seeing them again, too.
Johnny: Oh, I can absolutely relate to that. I’m an ardent booster of Chiller myself, and Kevin approved me the honor of a staff badge in 2024. I wasn’t able to take advantage of it that year as I had to miss both 2024 Chillers due to health issues, but starting with the April 2025 Chiller, I’ve been able to utilize the staff badge, and I will always be grateful to Kevin for his kindness in approving that.
Amber: Aw, that’s wonderful. There’s a…I’m not going to say it’s a heaviness, but the fact that Kevin is not going to be there, yet Kevin built Chiller soundly on the staff that runs it, and I’m confident that it is going to be as equal as it always has been an event, and maybe even more so because everyone is determined, as a sign of their own love and respect for Kevin, to make this the best Chiller of all and carry it on from here, and I’m grateful and honored to be a part of that.
Johnny: Wonderful. Speaking of which, of the stars who have been announced for the October 2026 Chiller so far, are there any that you yourself would want to meet?
Amber: Um, everybody. I always love meeting everybody at Chiller, and when I went to some of the past ones, I became friends with a lot of them. Kristen Renton and I became co-hosts. She co-hosted my radio show for the entire last season for the entire last season of Sons Of Anarchy, and we are still friends. She just wished me a happy birthday, and vice versa, just a few days ago. I love Kristen.
We’ll just see how it goes out. Tyffany Million is a dear friend of mine. She’s my bestie, and we do a lot of the fan shows together as well. I’m looking forward to seeing Tyffany, and also meeting her GLOW wrestling costar Jeanne Basone, so that will be fun, and whoever else is there.
I go to Chiller, yes, to meet others. I remember once, at one of the other shows I was at, Cloris Leachman was there, and she shocked the hell out of me by coming up behind me walking into the show one of the mornings and goosing me. (Amber and Johnny laugh) She had always wanted to meet me, and she came up behind me quickly as she was headed to her booth, and she went to reach out and pinch me. She wound up goosing me (laughing), and jumped and turned around. She said, “I didn’t mean to do that”, and I just started laughing. I said, “Are you sure? Oh, it’s okay”, and let it go, but she said, “Oh, I didn’t mean to do that”.
It’s always a fun time when we’re there. Also, at another one we were at, we were promoting the movie Who’s Jenna? that I was in with a lot of The Sopranos and Tracey Birdsall. Vinny Pastore was there, as well as his brother Garry Pastore, and they all came out. A bunch of our costars, including Michael Tota and others, came out to see me at the show, and we had a blast promoting it with fans. It’s all about the fans when we’re there.
Johnny: Alright. I’m definitely looking forward to meeting Tyffany as well. I actually interviewed her last year. She’s an amazing storyteller.
Amber: Yes, she is. She’s an amazing story. She’s an amazing human, and I adore her.
Johnny: Since you mentioned your radio show, you are an accomplished radio performer, having hosted the Rock-N-Sexxxy Podcast for eight seasons, so what are your favorite memories of that podcast, whether it’s a guest, or a particular topic you covered?
Amber: The Rock-N-Sexxxy Show I created because of piracy. Originally it was to fight the piracy in the music and entertainment business on all fronts, and it is a very positive experience for all. I didn’t want it to be a shock jock, let me insult you or throw meatballs on girls’ backs like some of the popular East Coast shock jocks.
I wanted it to be a very positive experience for everybody who crossed the doors of the studio, and in the beginning, we started out with a handful of my friends who were notable, known mainstream actors and musicians who were friends of mine who wanted to be on the show, but they could not do it because maybe their managers or whoever were opposed to my historical past in the adult industry.
That being said, everyone knows that I have crossed over into doing a lot of mainstream movies and television. However, my roots are in my adult acting and movie fandom, and I cherish that. There are certain talents who choose to downplay their roots in adult in order to gain fame and credibility and notoriety in the mainstream, and that’s not whom I am.
It is everything that I am and all the past roads that I’ve traveled that have developed me into the person and performer I am today, and I don’t choose to bury any of it. I wear it proudly. This is who I am. This is who I was. This is what I’ve become through it all, and it’s all of the roads that brought me here.
When I first started the Rock-N-Sexxxy Show, some famous friends, actors, and fans of mine would do sneak call-ins to the show. We would be on a topic, and they couldn’t stop themselves. They wanted to get in on the topic, and so they would call in, and I would say, recognizing the voice of the famous person on the other side, “Well, who is this?”, and they would say, “It’s Bullwinkle!”. (Laughing) I would say, “Bullwinkle? It’s Bullwinkle?”, and they would say, “Yes, it’s Bullwinkle”, disguising their voice.
We got a kick out of it for a while on that note, and then when I came to Chiller in 2014, the Sons Of Anarchy cast was there. Of course, everybody loves Sons Of Anarchy, and I have history with some of the storylines and people who were part of Sons Of Anarchy.
I met Kristen Renton, who came to me because she was playing a famous porn star in the show. She said, “I’m playing Ima Tite. She’s a famous porn star”, and it was for character research, so I said, “Character research? (Laughing) That’s awesome!”, and then I said, “Well, if you really want to get to know me, you should come and be on the show”.
She said, “Absolutely. I’ll do the show”, and then once she was on the show, I said, “You need to be my cohost”. We did a Cougar and Cub thing, and got to know each other really, really well. We worked together for her last couple of seasons on Sons Of Anarchy, and she was awesome.
Amber Lynn on The Rock-N-Sexxxy Podcast with (left to right) Scott Schwartz, Adrianne Curry, and Kristen Renton
Another person whom I absolutely adore and respect as a professional talent, and as a human being, is Clifton Collins Jr.. Just a wonderful guy. A really good human, but the people were countless that I got the pleasure of interviewing on my radio show, the shows that we were able to do, and the animal activism. Saving the animals, placing the animals…
We developed a program called Home For The Holidays where people could go to the L.A shelters and take shelter dogs, and cats, and take them home for the holidays, and give them a warm home and love. They were often fails because people would take them home and say, “Oh, they’re staying”. It was wonderful. A lot of people didn’t know they were going to get a shelter dog, and they could bring them home, and keep them for the holidays. This also helped a lot of the staff because there was no staff on as everybody was off for the holidays. There was a lot of that.
I had Richard Tyson on my show. I had Loretta Swit on my show, one of my favorite people. May she rest in peace. There were just so many, like Sally Kirkland. She and I became friends on the show. There were just so many.
Johnny: I’m kind of welling up a bit just because I can sense your warmth, and how people are drawn to you. You really do have a magnetism about you, and i can see why so many people want to hang out with you.
Amber: Thank you. I appreciate that compliment. I always say to people, in speaking of my activism, it came to me naturally. When I was a little girl, a little girl growing up in Orange County, I used to rescue cats and small animals, anything I could find. I mean, I might find a bird who fell out of a nest, and I would bring it home and take care of it.
I was lucky because I probably wouldn’t have taken no for an answer anyway, but my family was really loving towards animals. I had one brother (laughing) who used to terrorize my cat, but I always used to save animals, and as I got older, the human plight of the world really touched me at a very young age. I always wanted to help others.
In spite of the fact that I had grown up in a situation in my own life that had been limiting myself, it was a way I could learn to get out of self and help others, and it’s just always been something that I have done. Working with the children’s organizations and the AIDS Foundation and stuff like that has just come very natural to me. People bring things to me constantly, and they say, “You know, we are working on this with this group”, and then once you get involved, it just takes off from there.
You can never do enough to help your fellow man in this world. There’s so much need for it, and the bonus gift in that, for me, is that it allows me to stop thinking about the petty problems that sometimes exist in our own lives, and to realize that we’re lucky to be just upright and breathing and to get out there and do something for somebody who may have less than ourselves.
Johnny: Well, staying with that theme, since you did mention your helping to rescue animals, especially dogs, what makes dogs stand out for you amongst the animals you help?
Amber: When I was really young, I had cats, and I love cats. I was more of a cat person. We had dogs in the family, and we had bigger dogs. We always got the dogs somehow. It was a puppy we adopted, or whatever, but it was a family dog.
When Kristen Renton and I were working on the Rock-N-Sexxxy Show as cohosts, we had a lot of revolving cohosts, and one of those cohosts was the drummer for the punk rock band True Sounds Of Liberty, T.S.O.L. His name is Anthony Biuso, nicknamed Tiny, and shout out to Tiny out there. He’s just a great friend and an amazing talent.
Tiny had a rescue dog he was attempting to rehome. It was a holiday or something, and I said to him, “Let me see the puppy”. It was a little tiny dog, and the moment I met this little dog, I bonded with it, and I adopted it. We did a temporary thing, and I adopted it, and I named him Mr. Mighty. I bonded with this animal as closely as you could bond with an animal.
It was like my best soulmate dog. It was almost like my kid (laughing). I used to take him with me everywhere with me. Anybody who has ever had a soulmate dog will understand and if you’ve never had one, you’ll never understand, but I think everybody has had that one pet that was just your bestie.
I had him for eight years, and in the eighth year, he suddenly got cancer. There was no way to know that that would come because when you rescue an animal, you don’t know its’ history. You don’t know where it came from. You don’t know where it was raised or born or bred. You just take it as God’s will that this animal has been left with you.
He got cancer during the pandemic, and it was very difficult to find treatment for him. It took everything out of me that I had, trying to save this dog, and he passed away on me. It broke me. It absolutely broke my heart. I don’t think my heart had ever been broken so deeply as it had with Mr. Mighty, and that just forever changed me, but the gift in that was the unconditional love I was taught from this dog.
That’s why I encourage people every day, and I still do. I get on when I have some extra time. Even if it’s the middle of the night and I can’t get any sleep, I will get online to work with or save another rescue dog. There are so many animals in this world, in the U.S, and in California, that are suffering right now that need us to just do what we can to help.
Amber Lynn and Mr. Mighty
It’s not just rescue animals and dogs, and through that, I fell in love with dogs. It’s a different type of relationship than a cat. A cat will ignore you (laughing). It will lay on the couch. Dogs are different. They will become like your best friend, and they will know you. They will literally know your personality.
I do have another dog now. It took me a while to get another one. My relationship with him is different. He’s like my child because I raised him from a puppy. His name is Godfrey. We call him Little G, and he’s just an amazing, amazing little soul himself. I’m just very grateful to have the love of animals in this world for all of us, but it’s not the only thing I do.
I still work and advocate for children’s organizations. When I was young, my parents went through a very tumultuous divorce, and I was placed in a foster home. I shouldn’t have been, but CPS can descend upon your house at any time, make determinations that may not be true or false, and remove you from your parents, whether or not they like it, or have done anything to cause it.
That was something that happened with me, and there were things that happened to me as a result of the foster home. There was abuse, and for that reason, I advocate for children. I do believe that, when there is any hope, children should be kept with their mothers and fathers if possible, and the family should be rehabilitated instead taking them, removing them, and placing them in homes where the people don’t know them.
Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it works out badly. I work with that, and also with children’s cancer organizations and the Youth AIDS Foundation, even to this day.
Johnny: I do not know what the adult film equivalent of the Oscars’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award would be, but if there is one, I definitely think you would deserve it for all your charitable endeavors.
Amber: Thank you. I was honored with a humanitarian award. It had nothing to do with adult. It was a mainstream award, and it was in 2019. I was given the Humanitarian Award at the Nollywood Film Awards. They honored my work in children’s advocacy and the Youth AIDS Foundation. In my last 10 to 15 years, about 60 to 70 percent of my work has been more in the mainstream side of things, and the awards and honors with that.
I was also awarded a California Senate Award – Model Citizen for mu animal welfare and humanitarian efforts.
In 1998, there was the first big event where I was involved with the Youth AIDS Foundation. I got involved with that because there were kids who were runaways. That happens every day in our country, and they come to Hollywood on buses, or planes, or cars, or whatever, with dreams of becoming famous actors. This is something that’s a vast thing that goes on all the time.
They often have very little money in their pockets. They get off these buses and wind up in the streets of Hollywood with nowhere to live. They are homeless, and all they have with them is their knapsack and their dreams, and they often wind up drug-addicted, or prostituting themselves to survive.
Getting into the acting or performance industry is not something that’s easy to do. It takes a lot of work, and until you are famous, or you have a series, it’s a difficult climb. Oftentimes these youth would get infected with HIV, and that was how I got involved with the Youth AIDS Foundation.
It’s an organization that provided housing, and rehoming, and medical care to the youth of Los Angeles, and they were about to go under. At the time, the organization was being backed by donations from Aaron Spelling and the 90210 cast. However, they were basically not funding them. They were just kind of publicizing that they were, and they actually needed someone to roll up their sleeves and help them, so we put on a benefit for my birthday, which was highly publicized in the papers and stuff like that.
We were able to raise a bunch of money to help them, and in doing so, I formed a network of people that I have continued to work with to this day that want to work together as a community to make our world a better place. There’s so much reward in working within these types of communities.
Amber Lynn receiving her Humanitarian Award from The Nollywood Film Festival (Photo by Bob Delgadillo)
Johnny: That’s amazing. Again, it’s very admirable what you do, and since you did mention the mainstream, I would now like to ask about some of your mainstream credits as an actor…
Amber: Okay.
Johnny: Starting with this: You played Joyce in the 1985 horror movie Evils Of The Night. That movie featured veteran actors like John Carradine, Julie Newmar, and Aldo Ray, so did any of those actors have advice for you that would apply to your later work?
Amber: Also Dawn Wells and Tina Louise were in that film. The film was famous because, at the time, they were known for Gilligan’s Island, which was one of the most famous sitcoms on television. It was iconic at the time.
I was on the set with very famous actors. This was made very, VERY early in my crossover career. What was the exact year that the movie was made? I want to say it was 1985, right?
Johnny: Yeah, that’s when it came out.
Amber: Right. It came out in ’85, but especially with mainstream films, there’s editing, and the film is held back for a couple of years. This was something that I did probably around 1983, but I was newly beginning with my roots in the adult industry. Another actor was in this film as well. His name was Jerry Butler. I don’t know if you’re familiar with Jerry Butler, but he was also a mainstream actor.
A lot of people don’t know this about me, but my roots are in the mainstream. I grew up as a mainstream model and actress in Orange County. I had not done a lot of mainstream credits, but I didn’t set out to become a famous adult film star. I was a model, and I did a lot of modeling in commercials, as well as, later on, bikini modeling in Orange County.
The people on the set? We were all on professional terms. We were all basically there to do our jobs and do what the director told us, so there wasn’t any personal, “Let me tell you what to do with your career” conversations. That was something I would discuss more on 52 Pick-Up, which I have some great stories about, but on Evils Of The Night, it was “Do as the director says”.
Evils Of The Night was also what (sighing) I would call a “Lovable Cheap”. There were a lot of those back in the day where they basically grab a bottle of ketchup and an old pillow. They clash the pillows so that the feathers are flying everywhere, and they’re flinging ketchup at you, which is supposed to be blood. They’re these lovable cheap horror films that become cult classic, iconic films, and they have legs that go on forever. I think that this was one of them, but Evils Of The Night was one of those I would call a “Lovable Cheap”.
Johnny: Alright. Since you did mention 52 Pick-Up, besides yourself, quite a few of your fellow adult film icons were in that movie. It was, of course, a Cannon film, and so as you’re the latest in a long line of interview subjects of mine who have worked for Cannon, I have to ask you this as well:
Opinions on Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus are mixed, to say the least, so what did you think of working for Cannon?
Amber: What I thought of the film was that I was hired because John Frankenheimer, the director of 52 Pick-Up, was a fan of my adult film work, and I will always be grateful to John Frankenheimer. A lot of stuff happened on the film 52 Pick-Up. One of them was I met a girl I would become very, very good close friends with, and that was Vanity. I worked with Vanity on that film.
John Frankenheimer was a fan of my work, and they asked me to come down and do an audition. which I did. At the time, I was dating an actor who also had a lot of mainstream acclaim. His name was Jamie Gillis. We lived together, and Jamie was close to John Frankenheimer, the director, so we went down, and I did an on-set audition for the film.
It was a little bit of a surprise because I think it was his birthday, or something. We went and stood in the back of this area as they were shooting. We went on set, and he turned around and immediately saw me standing there, and he said, “Come over here immediately!”.
He said, “I’m a very big fan of yours’, Ms. Lynn. I love your work. You are very talented and very special, and I’d love to have you in my film. I believe the talent you have far surpasses your work in adult, and I’d like to give you an opportunity. I believe you should be doing mainstream. I’d like to be able to open the door to that opportunity for you”.
I will forever be grateful to John Frankenheimer for that. I was blown away. First of all, here I am, a young starlet. I’ve gotten some fame in the adult industry, but I had no idea of the possibilities that could exist for me by the right director cultivating my talent. I worked with John Frankenheimer on the set, and he created a role that I would do that would allow me to get my SAG card, and I was Taft=Hartley’d on that. There were a few days on that set, and that’s why I have my SAG card, and always have.
He also brought me onto a set where he treated me as an equal to every other actor on the set. I want to say that includes Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, and Roy Scheider. You go onto these sets and you meet these people, and this is true of Chiller as well, and these people are famous movie stars to the public. We have these preconceived ideas about all of the talent, and when you’re on a movie set, you are all working performers who are there to do the best job, and your own part, in making the movie the greatest success you can.
The director is sort of like the ringmaster of the circus, and for me to have that kind of confidence from a director, it gave me so much as a young actor. There’s a part of me that is also very shy, and uncomfortable, and unsure of myself, which I think a lot of actors and performers have in them, and that’s something that everybody has to overcome when you’re a working talent in the industry.
I think that as a child, and also due to my upbringing, I was shy, but in working with a director who had that much confidence and belief in me in my youth, it allowed me to really rise above a lot of that, and to do well in everything I was doing…That, and training.
However, I will always be grateful to John Frankenheimer for getting me my SAG card, and believing in me. Having an incredible director say, “Believe in yourself. Do the work. Do the training. You have what it takes. Use it. Your talent is a gift. Do not throw it away. Do not take it lightly”…I grew from that immensely.
However, when I was on the set of 52 Pick-Up, and we were doing that party scene, I remember Ann-Margret, John Glover, Vanity…Multiple people were in this scene, and they were centering around ME, and asking me questions, “What is it like to act in a movie where you actually consummate the sex?”, because mainstream actors do love scenes every day, but they don’t actually physically consummate that sex, and they were all intrigued by that.
I said, “Well, Tom Cruise doesn’t actually fly a helicopter into a building, right?”…
Johnny: Right.
Amber: Well, when you’re doing stunt work, you come down close, so imagine coming the closest you can, and then doing the next steps because you’re there for the finish of the movie. A lot of people think that when you shoot porn, everybody just jumps on a set and fucks (Amber and Johnny laugh), and they think that’s the way it is.
It’s a movie set. Like any other movie set, there are boom operators. There are camera people. There are script supervisors. There are makeup artists with powder puffs in your face, and you have to overcome all of those things in order to bring home that film, so there is no difference in any of it.
Amber Lynn in 52 Pick-Up
Johnny: Well, you truly are a talented performer, no matter what you do, and you really have some excellent skills.
Going to a different mainstream credit, you played a reporter in the 1989 Canadian horror film Things. You’ve talked in other interviews about your love of Canada, so would you say there’s a difference between filmmaking in the States and filmmaking in Canada?
Amber: Hmm. Well, when I worked on the film Things, I was actually living in Canada for a time. I was engaged to a Canadian. I was traveling and touring extensively throughout the Canadian gentlemen’s club circuit. They used to tease in a lot of things that “we traded Pamela Anderson for Amber Lynn” because she had gone down to California in Malibu to do Baywatch, and I’d come up to Canada to tour the gentlemen’s club circuit and do films in Canada.
Canada has its’ own, not as big as the States, but its’ own film market, and I loved Canada. I will always love Canada and the Canadian people. I have friends there that I worked with. I was just back there again this year for the Taboo Sex Expo, which was an adult expo that did films and all of that.
When I was hired onto Things, Barry J. Gillis was a great director doing what I would like to call a “lovable cheap” horror film. Things was a difficult film because, as a Virgo, when I do my films, I study them to make sure I know my dialogue. I get my script ahead of time.
They didn’t want to give me the script, and I knew that I was going to do the film for about three months before we filmed. I was touring up in Canada, and I kept asking for a script, and they said, “We don’t want to give you the script. We want to shoot the film exactly like they do newscasters. You will either have a teleprompter, or you will have dialogue cards which we will be holding up and you will be reading from”, which is exactly how they do it on the news.
You have to figure this was back in ’87 or ’89, right?
Johnny: Right.
Amber: That was really bothering me that I had no way to kind of cultivate the character because I didn’t have the dialogue to work on the set. I did the best I could. I did exactly as the director wanted, and it was a short clip, but it wound up being edited not as we had shot it.
I’ll tell you one thing about Things. It is a cult-followed film that everybody loves to trash (Amber and Johnny laugh), but they sure watch the heck out of it, and they continue to talk and send me messages on social media to this day. “I loved you in Things!”.
Horror films have their own following. They’re kind of like Trekkies in Star Trek as they come into expos. They’re horror fans, and something can seem like the biggest cheap piece of junk to us on the planet, and they will have a litany of fans who love it and love to hate it, so Things is its’ own thing. I still have a following from it. I love them, and they’re all welcome to come see me at Chiller.
Johnny: You never know what will impact an audience.
Amber: Right!
Amber Lynn in Things
Johnny: With the mention of the gentlemen’s clubs, I would like to gradually transition into questions about your adult work by starting by asking this:
When you were feature dancing, which artists and genres were your favorites to dance to, and did you find your musical tastes changing from the 80s to the 90s?
Amber: Well, I love music. I’ve loved music my whole life. I grew up in Orange County, as I like to say, behind the Orange Curtain. Orange County, USA. This was before it was popular to be from Orange, and now it’s trending. Then? It was not. Before the Real Housewives came out, it wasn’t as popular. Now it is.
It was more of a suburban family-type environment, and what we were known for is that we grew up with the most famous punk rock and heavy metal music acts of all time. There were all from Orange County, starting with Agent Orange, and I could go on and on and on. That was one of the focuses of the Rock-N-Sexxxy Podcast.
When I was really young, I was an old-school rock-n-roller. Alice Cooper was my first rock hero when I was 11 years old. I used to play Alice Cooper, and you would think that would be really odd for a young girl in a conservative town (laughing) to be playing Alice Cooper’s You Can Go To Hell on her Fisher-Price record player after school, and a lot of my family thought so, too, but they allowed me to do that, and I’m so grateful for it.
As I grew older, I was a huge fan of Steven Tyler and Aerosmith, and I got to meet all of my music heroes, and then I got into punk rock, and everything changed. I did meet and work with my icon at a previous Chiller, which was Alice Cooper. That was one of the greatest honors of my life. You know, they say “don’t meet your heroes”, and that’s often true, but that’s not true of Alice Cooper. When I worked with Alice Cooper at Chiller, he was one of the most down-to-earth humans on Earth,
However, where it pertains to your question, which is “Did your music tastes change?”, when you’re doing girly shows in a gentlemen’s club tour, you can’t come out to hardcore punk rock (laughing), or old school heavy metal like Alice Cooper. Now I did want to try and incorporate as much of that into my shows as possible, but I also became, in my later years while I was dancing, a HUGE Prince fan.
Prince was an icon in my youth, and I actually got to meet Prince with Vanity because, at one point, Vanity was friends with and dating him when I worked on 52 Pick-Up. That’s a whole other story, but that’s how I really became a Prince fan, and so I used a lot of his music in my early shows, but I mostly used theme music that went with my theme costumes.
The shows that I did in the gentlemen’s clubs were very, very elaborate. In Canada, they had these feature dancers that would come out and do these elaborate burlesque theme shows with these elaborate costumes, and when they brought me into Canada, they wanted me as a draw for my name, and there were lines around the block the first week I danced in a club.
I went with Tracey Adams, a colleague, and it was packed, but our shows centered around the look, the costume, and the theme of what we were portraying to the audience. They were like big burlesque shows, and I went on the road for years. When it comes to what my personal tastes were, they were not always what I put out on stage for the show, so they were different, but I love all forms of music. I can jam to almost anything, but my real love is in punk, old school punk, and heavy metal and rock-n-roll
Johnny: Alright. I can relate to that. Speaking for myself, I developed a fascination with 80s music in the 90s. It was a very turbulent decade for me, and a lot of what was popular in the 90s was too dark for me because my own life was so dark back then, so as I couldn’t look to the immediate future, I looked to the immediate past, and developed a fascination with the 1980s.
This was also around the time I was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, and one aspect of that is having an intense focus on a particular subject. For me, it ended up being the pop culture of the 1980s, not just the music, but the movies and the TV, and it plays a large part in the interviews I do because I love interviewing talents, like yourself, who were active in the decade.
In many ways, that material got me through the dark times of the 90s, the 00s, and my health setback in 2024. I’m always grateful for that, and you’re one of the many 80s talents whose work got me through those dark times. That’s a big reason why I do interviews like this, to thank people like you for doing that.
Amber: Oh, that is so kind of you. It means so much to me that you said that. Again, when you’re talking about why we do things that we do, there’s the idea if in some way, in that moment, even if there’s just one person out there who may be listening, we can never know where or when they are, but we can make their world and, in doing so, the world a better place, even if just for that moment, then so be it. I do believe that things happen for a reason. We’re led on a path that we are intended for, and we should follow the roads. Ride the horse in the direction it’s going, as one of my great mentors taught me.
I will always be grateful to have been a child of the 80s. It was an incredible, unique time. When it comes to the 60s and 70s, I had older brothers who were 10 and 7 years older than me, and then I had a younger brother, and one who was about 10 to 15 months older. There was an era in front of us as I was growing up in my family, but it wasn’t my era, and it didn’t feel like a fit to me. I love the music of Black Sabbath, The Who, Led Zeppelin…All of the old school.
When I was in high school, my brother took me to the last Led Zeppelin concert there would ever be here, and that forever changed me, so I was grateful, but we all wanted to cultivate our own era, and I think anybody who was a kid in the 80s would know. In the 80s, it was a different world. We were all hanging out at the Rainbow Bar And Grill in Hollywood. We were going to a place called The Starwood, where Y&T was a huge part of my youth, where Motley Crue got its’ start.
I remember seeing Motley Crue playing for the first time, when they were nobody, and I thought, “WOW! These guys are going to be HUGE!”, and they were just a bunch of kids on the rug trying to make it, just like everybody else, and then they became MOTLEY CRUE, as you know. We all started out in our beginnings. My beginnings were, for sure, humble. I came from a very good family background, but my family had its’ problems for sure, so I had to make my own way in this world, and everything I’ve ever done, I will say, at the end of the day, I am self-made.
That’s why the awards I have been given, I stand proud of, and I am not afraid. Humility and being humble has nothing to do with being allowed, and allowing yourself to be proud of your accomplishments, of what you have accomplished. That’s not about ego. That’s about allowing yourself the opportunity to say, “I pat myself on the back. I did this. I did it against all odds, and I did a great job. I’m not going to allow anyone to take this away from me”. That’s how I believe.
Johnny: That’s an excellent lesson we could all learn, and you do a great job of proving it.
If I may, I would like to ask some questions about your adult film work proper, but instead of asking about specific movies, I would like to give you the names of some actors and actresses you shared scenes with, and I’d like you to give me some memories of them, whether on screen or off. Is that okay?
Amber: Yeah, sure.
Johnny: Okay. We’ll start with another famous Lynn in adult films, a good friend and former interview subject of mine, Ginger Lynn. Do you have any particular memories of her?
Amber: I do. Well, I worked with Ginger quite frequently early in both of our careers. Ginger and I worked for competitor agents in both our youth, but even though I’m younger than Ginger by just a couple of years, I was in the industry before Ginger by about a year. My first movie came out about a year before her first movie came out.
When we met, it was through Harry Reems and Jamie Gillis, who was my boyfriend at the time. Ginger and I were at a house party with these guys, and we were both on a date with them. I met Ginger, and Ginger and I went on to work in multiple films together. I’ve always had the utmost respect for Ginger.
There are two things that are similar. We went on to be known. whoever named us that, as “The Lynn Sisters”, and I believe that’s because there were the Landers Sisters, who were very popular in that era of the 80s, and they were actual sisters who had similar looks and similar careers.
Ginger and I worked together, and I think that both of us would say that some of our best work was done on a set together. Working with her was always wonderful. As far as a professional, she is an incredibly talented actress. Like me, and like each other, I believe we always have both taken our work incredibly seriously, and we both wanted in our youth to take our industry, as an adult industry, and make it like it happened in the mainstream.
When we wanted riders on sets that allowed us to have the green M&Ms taken out, we created that. When we went on fan shows together, we were often in the same movies, so they would put us at a booth together, and when we would sign at those booths at the AVN shows, the lines around the whole convention center to get in and see us, and take pictures with us, would be longer than any other line in the place, and I know we’ve both got a sense of pride.
We were also healthy competitors, and fun-loving competitors. I had a sister when I was young who was older than me, and who died of heart defects. I never got to know her. I always wanted, and had, a place that never got filled for my sister that never got to be, and I always kind of thought of Ginger as that sister. You know, she was a little older than me, a smidge, but I looked up to her in that respect.
I think we complemented each other more than we competed with each other. I believe that’s other people’s story, not ours. That is what I feel about Ginger Lynn, nothing but respect.
Johnny: Wonderful. Next up, the first male name I have for you is Peter North. What do you think about him?
Amber: Um, I think a lot of things and, you know, I have not been asked this recently, so you’re going to be the first person to get this from me in an interview, but I think it’s high time that I was authentic about my feelings. I worked with Peter in the 80s. I highly respected Peter as a professional, and I really adored him as a person.
However, this year, Peter North came out with a documentary that says a lot of things, and in that, he disclosed that he had an alter-persona called Matt Ramsey, where he worked in gay films without disclosing that he was doing it.
When I was young, I had a brother who was a director and an award-winning actor in the adult industry, Buck Adams, who was every bit my big brother off-screen. My brother was one of the people who exposed Matt Ramsey as a person who was also moonlighting working in gay films. They found films where he was that person.
I didn’t want to believe it, and it has nothing to do with “do I feel somebody has the right to be gay or not?”. I do. My best friends are gay. I support gay rights. I support trans rights. I’m also the Sergeant At Arms for the Adult Performance Artists Guild, the first federally recognized union, and we stand for and protect performer rights. The adult industry is predicated on consent, consent through education and knowledge.
One of the greatest respects and oaths we take is transparency in our personal health. We must rely on that when we walk on set because we can expose ourselves to deadly diseases. In the 80s, when I worked with Peter North, we didn’t have HIV testing yet. We did later on.
For years, he worked with me, fully knowing that I trusted him, fully knowing that I had no idea that he was shooting gay films, AND not only shooting gay films, but he was gay escorting at a time when AIDS was exploding in our industry, and in the world. Am I okay with that? No, Johnny, I’m not. I say this to you, and I say this to Peter. I’m not okay with that. I’m not okay with what you did, and more than that, I’m disappointed, and I’m hurt.
That’s because instead of coming to me, somebody whom he had exposed, and saying, “Amber, I’m coming out with a documentary, and it has information in it that applies to you, and it affects you in a way that could’ve cost you your life at one point. As a friend, and as a colleague, I want to give you the respect of letting you know what is about to hit”…
That’s why I did not appear at his premiere in Vegas for his documentary, and I say nothing about it. It’s not that I don’t feel he has a right to have his story out there. I just wish he had shown me, and others, the respect up front of telling us the bomb he was about to drop. I think it was done for publicity, and I think my life is worth more than your publicity junket, and that is all I have to say.
Johnny: Alright. To move on to a hopefully more positive experience, the next name is a dear friend of mine who expressed happiness when I announced the interview, and spoke highly of you. That talent is Gina Carrera.
Amber: I love Gina Carrera. I’m glad to know that you know Gina Carrera as well. Gina Carrera was part of a trio of besties in the 80s. Gina, myself, and Karen Summer went on a filmmaking junket to New York City, and we made films in the 80s that were amazing. We became The Three Besties. We worked in films together, and I will always adore her.
She was in many, many films with me. She was in Shacking Up With Amber Lynn, Commando Lovers…Just absolutely beautiful, talented and iconic. I believe she’s one of the unsung icons of our era, and it’s a funny thing that you say that as we became Facebook friends again after all of these years. We’re both into fitness, and she looks amazing. It was just wonderful.
Johnny: Absolutely, and she has a set of pipes on her. She can really sing a song.
Amber: I didn’t know that.
Johnny: Oh, yeah. She released an album in the 80s, very bluesy rock, and she’s still singing. As a matter of fact, she recently posted a video of her at a karaoke bar singing Me and Mr. Jones by Billy Paul, and she did an amazing job with the vocals.
Amber: Wonderful!
Johnny: Moving along to the next male talent, the much-missed Herschel Savage. What are your favorite memories of him?
Johnny: God, I miss Hersch (sighing). When Herschel died, it just hit me. I wasn’t expecting it. It was like a wall came down. Herschel Savage and I did so many amazing films together. We did Trashy Lady, which should’ve won awards. We did so many films together. We worked together often, often.
He also played the villain in Jane Bond Meets Goldenrod. I played the subject of a very famous trilogy series called Jane Bond, Agent 0069. There were three of them. That’s how popular the series was. One was Goldenrod, who was played by Herschel Savage. Peter North was in that as well.
Herschel was in Miami Spice, another huge, epic adult movie series, and he was in Trashy Lady, where he played Louie. I was his gangster moll, and we were the rival gang of Harry Reems and Ginger Lynn, and I believe we gave them a run for their money in acting and performing as friendly competitors. The movie is a cult classic, and if you’ve never seen it, please see it. It’s a period piece, and it’s amazing.
We remained friends. The only disappointing thing I have about Hersch is about six months before he was passed away, he had a birthday. I was going to come to his birthday party, and it was during the wintertime, and I got sick. I didn’t want to give everybody my cold, so I didn’t go to the birthday party, and he passed away of heart failure suddenly some time later.
Johnny: Well, that was very sad, but I’m glad you have those fond memories of him, and I have seen Trashy Lady. It is a fantastic movie, and you did great work in it.
Amber: Thank you.
Johnny: The third woman on my list is another much-missed performer, Jeanna Fine. What are your happiest memories of her?
Amber: Jeanna Fine…First of all, I was Jeanna Fine’s first girl-girl scene in the industry. It was in Hyapatia Lee’s Wild, Wild West, I believe. Jeanna Fine was actually a blonde in the beginning, and then she evolved through so many things. We also worked in the film Legends together years later. We worked on many, many great films together. We were in Where The Boys Aren’t 6 for Vivid. She actually played my wife in a film.
Another iconic performer of our industry who took her characters and her scenes very serious. I was there when she had her baby. When she was married, she had a son. She was just an amazing person and an amazing performer, and I’m very, very sorry that we lost her. I cried my eyes out the day I found out she passed away. She was one of those people who, if we didn’t see each other for years, you would run into her, and the years would just melt away.
I will always count her as one of my nearest and dearest friends, and most respected colleagues.
Johnny: That’s lovely to hear. The third man on my list is still another talent we lost too soon, Brandon Iron. What made him stand out for you?
Amber: I didn’t know Brandon Iron well. I worked with him once. Brandon was a friend of my brother, Buck Adams, and he was a nice guy. I remember that, but I know that he committed suicide, right?
Johnny Right.
Amber: To be honest with you, I remember that, and I was shocked. He was just a very quiet, very nice guy, and non-aggressive, and when I found out he committed suicide, I was very sad about it, another one of those people where you wish you could’ve been there to change the course of things and get a different outcome.
Johnny: Yes. Well, this next one’s hopefully lighter. The fourth great lady of adult film I would like to mention is Nina Hartley. What is she like to work with?
Amber: Nina Hartley is an absolute professional, and a pleasure to work with. Nina was a swinger before she got into the industry, and during her early years. I’m not a swinger, but I learned a lot from Nina about just being open and free with your sexuality. Nina has got to be one of the women who is the most comfortable with her sexuality on the planet.
She’s also a force for our industry as far as promoters of sexual positivity, where being an adult star is not a stigma. We refuse to accept it. We refuse to allow it to become one, or be portrayed as one, and Nina Hartley is a great educator of all of this. She has brought something to our industry, which is her own niche, and I believe that she should always be respected for it.
Johnny: Indeed. I think she is a fantastic performer as well, and I admire her enthusiasm. You can tell she really enjoys her work.
Amber: Yes!
Johnny: The fourth male talent I would like to mention is Michael “Luciano” Stefano. As your scenes with him were edgy, what was he like to do a scene with?
Amber: I think I only did one scene with him, and that was in a Jewel D’Nyle movie. I met him, and he was married to Jewel D’Nyle. Jewel was a young force to be reckoned with in our industry in the 90s, and I respected her. She brought me in to do a project she was working on because I was an iconic performer, who had come before her, that she had a lot of respect for, and wanted to work with.
I was on her bucket list, and she had built her own company, and she was looking to bring big-billed talent into her own company, and I highly respected her business mind in that respect. I did a scene with her and her husband. It was an awesome scene, an awesome movie, and we have been dear friends ever since. Jewel is somebody who I highly respect. Her husband Michael, I don’t think was in the industry that much longer, but that’s basically the sum total of how much I know Michael Stefano.
Johnny: Alright. I specified another one of his aliases, Luciano, because I know there was another Michael Stefano in the 80s who was in a movie you were in, Female Aggressors, but it was a different Michael Stefano.
Amber: Yeah, I don’t know who that is.
Johnny: That’s okay. The last woman I’d like to mention is Sharon Mitchell. What mader her such a great scene partner?
Amber: Well, Mitch and I have a long history together, you know? Mitch is my sister. Mitch was adopted. I lost my older sister. Mitch has taken that role in my life. We talked to each other an hour ago. We talk to each other daily…If not daily, every other day, to this day.
When I was very young, within the first week or two that I was in this industry, I met Sharon Mitchell. At the time, Mitch was dating a woman named Tigr. She was an older, talented, trained actress and dancer, and she was like a tomboy. She nicknamed me immediately “Bimbette”, and she took me under her wing, and she taught me so much about training yourself as an actress and entertainer.
Sharon Mitchell has been a mentor, and a bestie of mine, since 1983. I can’t say enough about her as a human, and as a friend, and as a sister, and also as a talent, and a mentor. We went to Paris together. When we traveled to Paris together, we joined the Mile High Club and almost got kicked off the plane in London.
We did movies in Paris for four months, and then wound up in Paris broke after spending all of our money on Parisian fashion and shoes (Amber and Johnny laugh), and partying, and all the best Parisian nightclubs and discotheques, and eating the finest food in the finest cafes, and taking limos everywhere we went, and running around with a Parisian biker gang on the backs of their motorcycles.
We turned Paris upside down, and then we wound up broke. Thank god for Larry Flynt and Hustler Magazine. They rescued me, and shuffled me off by car to the South Of France to be shot by James Bayes for a centerfold and cover for an interview that they did, and a story on my Parisian film shooting. Mitch loaded her stuff into a shopping cart in front of the Orion Hotel Paris, and went off to go and dance in some of the Parisian strip bars in order to make money to get home.
Mitch and I have been in the most precarious of times through our partying together, and our escapades and antics, and they are a book and a story within themselves. Why either one of us survived, I have no idea, and we continue to laugh about these things, even to this day. Of all the people I love and respect in this world, and in this industry, I have to count her, her and Seka, as my all-time top two big sisters, and people that I just love and revere.
Mitch is in my book. My book has just been completed, and we are working right now on a screenplay and a transcript for a movie about our lives, and our relationship and friendship. It is a story within itself. Sharon went on to create AIM Healthcare, and she brought the testing to our industry that kept our industry alive, and saved it for years. She is an amazing, amazing talent.
Johnny: That’s wonderful to hear. She’s another talent I’ve admired for a long time and, of course, you share similar musical tastes. I know from her Rialto Report interview that she was also into the punk rock scene.
Amber: Oh, yeah. Mitch ran with The Rolling Stones (laughing). As a matter of fact, last year I went up to her house because her and her husband wanted to take me to the Rolling Stones concert, so I drove up to Santa Cruz and spent some time with her and her husband on their estate up there in Santa Cruz. She’s wonderful, and she’s doing great. A great person.
Johnny: Alright. The last man on my list is Sean Michaels. What was the best thing about working with him?
Amber: I love Sean Michaels. Sean Michaels is one of my dear friends. Sean Michaels and I come from a time in the industry when we see and have the same thinking on this. You know, back in the day, we didn’t have “interracial” films and scenes. Our black brothers and sisters were our cult colleagues. They were our costars. There wasn’t a divided separation.
I worked with black talent because I’m not racist, and I don’t see there to be any difference as to whether a person is black-skinned, brown-skinned, or other. I’ve worked with Sean Michaels. He’s an amazingly talented actor and performer, and a classy, beautiful, and handsome man.
I always loved working with Sean because of those two things, and then when the industry got into this, “We’re going to start selling this as a separated niche”, I saw that as failed racism in the industry, as did Sean, when you start discussing performer talent because of the color of their skin as a niche.
I always stood on the fact that, if you’re going to do that, then why would the white or Caucasian female talent be allowed to charge more money for working in a scene with a black male when it’s the black male who brings the “black” to the scene, therefore making the interracial possible? We’ve fought that from way back because there is racism that runs within the industry that we believe is toxic and unfair. Sean and I have a meeting of the minds on that.
I have a project in the works now. I’m not going to disclose the details, but Sean Michaels will be a part of it. It’s a big project that will be coming in the new year. Also, Rocco Siffredi, whom I never got to work with, an Italian icon in our industry, is going to be part of the project I have in the works.
There’s so many talented and wonderful people, but in that respect, Sean Michaels, at the time, was also the original president of APAG Union, and I always appreciate the class and dignity that Sean brings to our adult industry and community, and will always stand for his greatness.
Johnny: Alright. I love hearing things like that about talents I admire. Bonus question before moving on to some specific credits: As you both appeared in movies produced by Armageddon Entertainment, did you ever work with Brian Surewood?
Amber: I don’t think so.
Johnny: You would probably recognize him if you saw him on sight. He was known for wearing bandanas and a beard. Eh, that’s okay. I’ll move on to my next question:
You did mention playing the character of Jane Bond in several parodies, so what was your favorite James Bond movie of the 80s?
Amber: When I was young in the industry, like I said when I mentioned Ginger, who portrayed herself as the girl next door, people would say to me, “You’re a Bond Girl”, in retrospect of what the differences were. “You’re a Bond Girl!”. “You’ve got to be a Bond Girl!”, and at one point, I said, “If I’m going to be a Bond Girl, I would want to be the James Bond of the film”, the star of the film.
As my persona began to take momentum in the industry, what they call “your typecast” is, I always had these really strong roles, and it was my brother who said, ‘If you’re going to be a Bond Girl, be JANE Bond! That way, you don’t compete with the film”, because often adult films are parodies of mainstream films. That way, you don’t compete with the film. You take on a completely different persona. My brother was a brilliant filmmaker and actor.
Little did I know that when I did Goldenrod, the original Jane Bond, and it became incredibly famous because, for one thing, I punched Porsche Lynn in the face (Amber and Johnny laugh) in the film, and I did my own stunt work, and it was a real film….Little did I know that Jane Bond, the character, was going to grab like it did, but it did.
It catapulted me in the adult industry to a cult-followed iconic fame where people would collect everything Jane Bond did. They would bring them to the fan shows, and they would have me sign them, and they loved Jane Bond because she did all the physical stunts. I drove all these fabulous fast cars. I was into race cars as a kid, so they tried to cultivate a lot of that into the role. Jane Bond was as equally talented as the James Bond character, and it went for three series.
It was the first trilogy that happened in the adult industry. We had Jane Bond: 0069 in Goldenrod. The second installment was Octopussy, who was played by Kristara Barrington, and then Blondi Bee was brought in as my sidekick. Before there was a sidekick like Mini-Me in Austin Powers, Blondi was mine in Jane Bond Meets Octopussy, and then there was a third one called License To Thrill. These were all cult-followed at the time.
The only reason we didn’t continue with the series was because I went off on the road, touring on the gentlemen’s club circuit, and my schedule would be SO busy. I was on the road for six to eight weeks at a time, and then home for a week, and then back out for eight weeks at a time. I didn’t have the time to come and shoot.
Johnny: Alright. To go to a different character, you played the character of Brooke Fields in The Erotic Adventures Of Dickman and Throbbin, so through your travels in mainstream entertainment, have you ever crossed paths with Brooke Shields herself>
Amber: I’ve never met Brooke Shields in person that I know of, but Brooke is definitely from my youth. I remember the Calvin Klein ads, and my sister-in-law was the Dittos Girl, the iconic Dittos girl. Before my adult career, I was a model, and in my family, her name was prevalent all the time. but I never came across Brooke Shields. I don’t believe I did.
Johnny: Alright. This is a bit of a lengthy question, so please bear with me:
Whether it’s the 80s, 90s, or now, if I may be so bold, I think you’re incredibly sexy. I’ve noticed, though, that even to this day, people make fun of the fashions, hairstyles, and makeup of the 1980s, and when it comes to the decade’s adult entertainment, they make fun of the personal grooming as well.
At the same time, the fashions, hairstyles, makeup, and personal grooming of the 1990s have practically gotten a free pass from being made fun of.
As you were active, and looked great, in both decades, why do you think the 80s are still more likely to be made fun of than the 90s are?
Amber: Well, trolls are trolls. They’re going to find something to talk about, whether it’s true or not. You know what I mean? You can’t stop trolls. Haters are haters, and haters gonna hate.
However, if you want to know what I like? I mean, everybody loves the 80s. Even when they make fun of it, they love it. However, the 80s were the most fake of all of them because in order to get your hair to stand up on end like that, you had to use an entire half-to-full can of Aquanet. i used to section my hair, and spray it with a ton of spray, and hold it up in the air until it dried with a blow-dryer.
I would use the blow-dryer until it was like a literal piece of cement (laughing) standing on its’ end. I would do that all over my head until I had, like, eight sections of hair standing straight out, blowed like a piece of cement, and then I would peel the pieces apart so that the hair would just stick straight up. I got that from the old-school mohawk, which I used to have, and was famously called the she-hawk.
That was where I would do a mohawk, but instead of shaving the sides of my head, because I had to be versatile as an actress, I would use a hairclip to clip it at the back, and then I would do the mohawk and the she-hawk. Everybody loves that hairstyle from back in the day, but about once a year, from all the hairspray and bleaching (laughing), and all the crazy stuff we did, my hair would just break off. It would break all off, and then I would have to start over.
Those were the eras when I would go through that kind of a thing. You know, makeup and hair, and my ability to do makeup and hair, has improved since our youth, and in the industry as well. That’s where things have kind of evolved, but I’ve always been one to continue to evolve and reinvent myself, which I believe has given me a lot of longevity, but the style is whatever style I’m into at that time.
I don’t do my style to garner respect or the attention of others. I do it because that’s what I want, and if it’s something I’ve never done before, then like Dolly Parton, I have the same ideas. She had that famous saying, there was a woman who was known as the neighborhood bad girl, and she wanted to look like her. That was me when I was young.
I wanted the heavy makeup and the eyeliner, but where I got mine was Priscilla Presley. When I was young, she used to paint her eyes really black when she was married to Elvis and she had Lisa Marie, and she used to tease her hair into this bouffant hairstyle. Nobody wore their hair like that, certainly not at 16 or 18 years old like Priscilla did.
However, she did that, and I thought it was just the sexiest thing in the world, those black-eyeliner thick eyelashes, so I wanted to have similar, but my own version of that, and that’s why I did it in the 80s. I didn’t care if people made fun of me. We used to have a saying, me and my brother: “It’s just another case of somebody putting somebody else down to make them feel bigger”.
We didn’t care. We were having a great time, so I loved the 80s, and then into the 90s, the look evolved, and stylists and makeup artists didn’t want to work as hard back then as they are willing to do today. I then realized that in order for me to look good, I had to know enough about my own makeup and hair to make sure I had the basics down, and then the makeup artist would be able to follow up on that. When I was really young in the 80s, I was at the mercy of those makeup artists because I wasn’t good at my own hair and makeup.
Alexis Vogel used to do an amazing job on Ginger Lynn and I when we were young, and nobody else could really do us as well. When we did the High Society covers, and Club Magazine, and stuff like that, that was Alexis Vogel, and I grew up with Alexis, and adored her. She would make me look iconic. She was also famous for creating Pamela Anderson’s look. She would make us look iconic and feel iconic, but other makeup artists would just paint us up like trash, and I was fine with that, too (laughing), you know?
That was how we did that. I think the 80s was my favorite look, but I like the way I look today.
Johnny: I like it, too.
Amber: I’m fine with who I am today. A lot of people think I’ve had masks of plastic surgery. I have not. I’ve not touched my face in 25 years. I had my breasts done 26 years ago now, but I have not touched my face in 25 years. It’s all hair and makeup, and costuming. It has NOTHING to do with surgery.
Johnny: Alright. To go to a bigger picture question:
Like with several of my previous interview subjects, you’re part of a unique group. Popularly called Generation Jones, I call them the Boom’Xers because this mini-generation, born from 1955 to 1964, bridges the Baby Boomers and Generation X, so how has being a Boom’Xer impacted your outlook on the world?
Amber: Well, you know I’m on the cusp, and so I was raised and brought up by my older brothers who were Boomers, and rockers, and then we had our own era. One of the things that stands out the most is we were basically latchkey kids on our own, being raised by single moms. My dad passed away, and my mom when I was young, and I was raised by my stepmother, and she was kind of an absent parent, so we raised ourselves.
I believe that what shaped me was my own inexperienced interpretation of the world and my surroundings, so instead of being influenced by a parent, I was influenced by the bands and the entertainers that I followed around me, as well as my older siblings, which probably weren’t always the best influence, which is why I was very wild, but I wasn’t influenced sexually.
I was not given the limited, sometimes catastrophic thinking about my sexuality that some people are, so I was very free to make my own determinations about sex, and whether it’s a man or a woman, or whether gay is acceptable or not, and all of this stuff. I know that a lot of the people around me, my friends who were raised in devout Christian and Catholic families, were given these very limited ideas about these types of things.
I don’t have that, but I was brought up in a trial-and-error era where I was pretty wild, and I got into a lot of that things that I probably could’ve been steered away from, and that developed me. At the end of the day, being who I am underneath it all is what saved me. The person that you are underneath it all, regardless of your experiences, is what will come out at the end of the day.
You could be the best person in the world, but if your root is toxic, you’re a bad human. You will be a bad human at the end of the day, but if you’re a good person, and a kind soul, you have a good heart underneath it all, which is what I believe I do, then at the end of the day, that is what will shape your life, and take you in the direction you’re intended to, and that’s what I believe saved me.
I’m 26 years clean and sober from alcoholism, and a drug addiction that should’ve killed me in my youth. I was able to save myself and grow out of that, and help a lot of other people as a result of that, so that’s how I feel it has shaped me personally.
Johnny: And the world is richer for having you in it. On a lighter note, you’ve sung in a few of your adult movies, but have you ever sung professionally, or at least considered it?
Amber: You know, I have not. I’m not a singer unless I’m in my car (Amber and Johnny laugh) with the windows down and the music on. I would love to fancy myself as a singer. I am not a singer, and have never been. I was offered the same chance at lip-syncing over something when I was young, and that wasn’t my thing. I’m a visual actor. I’m a visual performer, so that’s where I believe my talent is.
I’m also a director and a producer. I self-produced Rock-N-Sexxy for years, so I know how to look at myself with a discerning eye from the outside and see where my talent lays, and maybe doesn’t so much, and I don’t think that I’m a great singer in that respect. I’m not going to sell records (laughing). You know what I mean?
Johnny: I know, but you could always do karaoke.
Amber: Oh, I’ve done karaoke, but other than that, no.
Johnny: Alright. Going to a different question, when fans mail out autograph requests to you, are you okay if they request explicit inscriptions on their photos?
Amber: Yeah. I don’t care about explicit requests on photos, but one of the things that we do have in our business, which is autographs, if you’re purchasing an autographed photo, or have a personalized photo or whatever, the autograph is fine as long as it’s not something that could be illegal, right?
Johnny: Of course.
Amber: So you do have to measure that on what you will do because there are limits to what you can write legally, especially if it’s traveling through the mail.
Johnny: Alright. I ask that because I’ve gotten several autographs from adult film stars over the years. I’ll be getting yours’ when I go to Chiller, although I won’t ask for an explicit inscription there (Author’s note: This was written before my attendance at the October 2026 Chiller had to be canceled due to not having a PTO request approved completely). I’ll save that for when I mail out a picture and send money.
I know that there are some talents who are okay with explicit inscriptions, but others are not. I know that Tyffany Million doesn’t do explicit inscriptions, nor does Hyapatia Lee, nor did the late Kay Parker. None of them were okay with explicit inscriptions, and that’s perfectly understandable, you know? It’s whatever you feel comfortable with. I’m just recalling my own experiences getting these autographs over the years.
Amber: I believe there is a reason for that. As the Sergeant At Arms for APAG, I’m speaking from this place right now, so I’ll educate when possible. The reason why they would be reluctant, possibly, to do that is because we have no way of checking the I.D of the person who is writing in for a photo.
If you were to get a picture of me in a bikini saying “Love, Amber Lynn”, it wouldn’t matter the age of the person. However, if the person was 15 or 16 years old, and they requested an explicit, graphic, sex photo, with an explicit, graphic, sex saying that said “I want to this, that, and the other you”, that would be illegal, and the person mailing it could be charged for doing it, so that is probably why. Do you understand?
Johnny: Oh, I understand completely.
Amber: Yeah, so that’s probably why. Now, when we’re at a fan show, you can see the person, and if they look underage, you can just ask for their I.D right there, and then you can sign the photo or whatever, but there are a lot of age verification laws that are coming into play now, especially state-to-state, which are limiting the access to adult material greatly in our industry.
I always believe in consenting adult access to pornography, and NEVER subjecting a person that would be seen as a child to that, and a child is anybody who is not of legal age to access porn or sexually explicit material.
Johnny: Okay. Staying with the matter of autographs, what’s been the most wonderful piece of memorabilia you’ve ever signed, whether at a convention or sent through the mail?
Amber: Usually they’ll bring it up at conventions. You know, Chiller is the one where they bring a lot of great stuff, but unusually, somebody came up and asked me to sign my banner. They wanted my banner because it had all my mainstream, and a lot of my adult stuff, and it sits behind me during the show so people can walk up and go, “I saw you in that movie”. “I saw you in THAT movie!”.
It’s a great conversation piece. It sparks a lot of conversation because sometimes when people are in line to meet their hero, or their dream girl, they’ll get in front of you and they’ll just forget what they’re about to say (laughing). They’ll go into the deer-in-headlights type of mode, and they’ll go, “Uh…Uh”, and I always try to calm them down, touch their hand. “You know, it’s okay. Just relax”, because that’s the way it is.
We are all human underneath it all. I felt that way when I met Alice Cooper, as a matter of fact. I was at Chiller, the second time I was there, and I said, “I have to meet Alice Cooper”. I was a fan of Alice Cooper’s when I was 11 years old, and I got to go to Alice Cooper’s concert when I was 11 years old because my brother worked as a doorman at the security entrance, and I got to go to all the Anaheim Stadium concerts.
Anyway, I met Alice. I had to tell Alice the story of when I got to meet Alice at 11 years old and go to the concert, but I went and got on line because I wanted to be respectful, and not charge my way in front of the rest of the guests at the show and feel like I was entitled. Everybody was looking at me. I was on my break and with my assistant picture taker.
Alice said, “Hold on a second”, and waved me up to the front. I asked the whole line, “Are you sure you’re okay? Is there anybody who is not okay with this?”, because I don’t want to just act entitled, and they all said, “No, go ahead, Amber”, so I went and got to meet Alice, and in that moment, I was like, “Oh my god, it’s Alice Cooper!”. We all have that in us to be that way. This is our hero. It doesn’t matter how famous you are.
Anyway, the thing that I signed that was probably the most exciting was the banner. However, when I have maybe a dozen different people who often will come to my shows, they’ll pull up their arm, and they’ll have a tattoo of me and my name on it. They’ll say, “I’m your biggest fan ever. Look!”, and they’ll have my face, my body, whatever, a picture of me, and they’ll have my name on their arm, and they’ll have had it since the 80s.
Amber Lynn and Alice Cooper at the Spring 2016 Chiller Theatre convention
One of the things with a couple of them was when I was in Miami. There was a girl who is a dancer who said, “I have to come up and get my picture taken with you. My parents named me after you. My name is Amber Lynn. They were big fans of yours’ in the 80s, and they named me after you. I have followed your entire career, and I am now a professional dancer”. Those are the most exciting things, but I think my banner was probably the most.
Johnny: Alright. Similarly, where has been the most unusual place you’ve been recognized for your adult film work?
Amber: I’ve been recognized, and I don’t say this out of ego, I say it because it’s fact: I’m pretty much recognized wherever I go. One of the places where I’m most often recognized, which is shocking to me, is when I’m at the gym. In the gym, people will often look at me. I go to the gym with no makeup on, and a baseball hat, specifically to exercise, but I guess my face is recognizable. because I have unique features in my face, wherever I go, but pretty much everywhere that I’ve ever gone.
I have other mainstream careers. I had a career in real estate. I was recognized in real estate. I don’t hide it, but I don’t always walk in with that entitled, “Don’t you know who I am?”, unless it’s appropriate (laughing). You know what I’m saying? And then I say, “Do you know who I am?”.
I’m always out front and transparent about who I am. I never want people to know me, or get involved with me, without knowing exactly who they’re dealing with, especially in my personal relationships. I might date somebody, and maybe they don’t know anything about porn. I tell them, “I’m a famous adult star, and you need to know that because I’m not somebody that hides it”, but it happens to me all the time.
It happens to me in Costco. It happens to me at the gym. It happens to me at the mall.
Johnny: Well, I guess I’m asking if you’ve ever been to, like, Disneyland, have you ever been recognized there?
Amber: I believe I actually have.
Johnny: Alright. I have two more questions.
Amber: Okay.
Johnny: Staying with the mainstream, Ginger Lynn has been doing some excellent work on the independent horror scene. Knowing that you’ve done independent horror, would you venture back into that, or do you prefer working in relatively lighter genres like comedy or romance?
Amber: I do work in horror film. What has happened for me was, for the last 12 or 14 years, I have been incredibly focused on the Rock-N-Sexxxy Uncensored Podcast, and people don’t realize that when you’re producing your own show weekly, weekly, weekly like that, it takes an INCREDIBLE amount of work, and time to cultivate guests.
Everything I did, the research on the guests, the interviews, the shooting of the film, all of it in the studio, my hands were in every bit of the process, and what was happening was it was taking up a lot of my time to do it right, to make it special, to showcase all of the talent, and I had a lot of amazing people.
A lot of them were Chiller guests. I interviewed Vinny Pastore. I interviewed Chuck Zito on my show. He appeared to promote an adult cartoon TV series called Wise Guys and Wack Jobs, by Danny Provenzano, that we were all slated to do. We co-star together along with Johnny Depp and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry.
Always wanting to show the best of our talent, I had so many, but people don’t realize the amount of time it took to do all of that, and I said, “Listen. I want to focus for some of a time on my own acting”, and I did a lot of stuff. I did Who’s Jenna?. I was in The Kominsky Method as the object of Michael Douglas’ fantasy girl. I even turned up on an episode of Seinfeld, all because of my fame as Amber Lynn, but I needed to focus on my acting.
Amber Lynn, Vincent Pastore, and Laura Madsen at Chiller Theatre in Spring of 2016…
Acting takes work. If you’re going to show up and act, you need to work on it. You need to be in class. You need to be at workshops. You need to be studying with your coach. You need to be auditioning. It takes endless amounts of auditions. I audition a lot, and it takes endless amounts of auditions to book a job (laughing), okay? You have no idea how much. I have my ultimate respect for people in the mainstream who just persevere.
We get off easy in the adult business. I mean, I walk in the door of the adult industry an icon in that industry, and I say that with humility and pride. People know who I am, they know what I’m capable of, and they know what they’re hiring me for. I don’t close the door on anything.
In mainstream, these people go through ENDLESS auditions and competitions to get one role. ONE ROLE, and it may not even be seen. They can cut you out of the film or series so fast, so I have been working on a lot of that, but this last two-and-a-half years, the focus has been on my autobiography, and the subsequent documentary biopic that is coming out of that, and the planning of that.
This is our next big venture, and it’s special, and it’s big, and the fans are gonna really want to see it because it’s not just about my adult career. It’s about my entire life and the struggles that I’ve had my whole life, my upbringing and my childhood, the abuse, watching my mother be killed in front of me in a car accident and being thrown from a car, having to survive life with PTSD…All of it.
It’s all there, the feelings, and the fear, and the emotions, the joy and the accomplishments…It’s all of it. It’s a very big project that has been long in coming, and it’s coming to completion right now, so we’ll be talking more about that, with your permission, when we’re ready to release that, the names and PR on it. I would love to be able to come back to you and give you that.
Johnny; Oh, absolutely! I would love that. I now come to my final question: With how busy you are, what’s your idea of the perfect day off?
Amber: My perfect day off is what I do on Sundays. I wake up in the morning and take off all my hats, because I wear a lot of hats, and I turn around and say, “Are we going to see our best friends today?”, and my little dog, Little G, starts doing his tippy-tap toes because he knows what that means. That means we’re going to go spend the day at the dog park, and at the park, under a tree.
It’s just me and him. I feed him treats, and we hang out, and I do some writing. We just hang out and meditate, and just enjoy life and nature, and the world around me as a spectator for a day. I drop the hustle-and-bustle persona, and the ego, and all of the above, and just be a human being for a day, and that’s my idea of a perfect day.
Johnny: Wonderful. That does it for my questions. I again thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to speak to me. This has been an interview I was hoping to do for years now, and it was worth the wait.
Amber: Thank you so much. By the way, I just do want you to mention at the end of the article that Amber Lynn is booked exclusively for mainstream work through [email protected], Roger Paul Talent, New York City.
Johnny: On that note, I hope you have a wonderful late afternoon/early evening.
Amber: Perfect. Thank you, Johnny. I appreciate you, and I’ll let Shelley know we got our show done, okay?
Johnny: Fantastic!
Amber: Enjoy your evening. Bye bye.
Johnny: Bye.
I again thank Amber Lynn for taking the time out of her schedule to speak to me. Although I won’t be able to make it to the October 2026 Chiller Theatre convention, which will take place from October 30th through November 1st at the Dolce By Wyndham Parsippany Hotel, if you will be attending Chiller, say hello to Amber Lynn, and tell her that Johnny Caps sent you.
I would also like to once more extend a thank you to Roger Paul for connecting me with Amber Lynn, and I also owe thanks to my dear friend Shelley Michelle for getting the ball rolling on this interview. Speaking of Shelley, I’ll be interviewing her for a third time soon to celebrate the centennial of Marilyn Monroe, for whom Shelley is a noted tribute artist.
Thank you as always for reading. Have a wonderful day, everyone!
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