Joanna Angel

Joanna Angel (born December 25, 1980) is an American alternative pornographic actress, director and writer of adult films. She used her real first name of Joanna for her stage name. Angel was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Orthodox Jewish Israeli mother and an American father. She was raised in River Edge in Bergen County, New Jersey, where she attended Cherry Hill Elementary School and graduated from River Dell High School in 1998. After graduating at age 17 she enrolled in Rutgers University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature with a minor in Film Studies. She worked in a kosher fast food restaurant in Teaneck during high school, then at an Applebees and another restaurant called Happy's Health Grille,...