Abigail Clayton

Adultfilm actress Abigail Clayton was born Gail Lawrence in Huntington Long Island NY After graduating from Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Arts degree Gail migrated to the West Coast settling in San Francisco She began working as a film editor and soon was performing in adult film loops with the likes of Annette Haven and Leslie Bovée A youthfullooking brunette with perky Bcup breasts prominent nipples doelike eyes and a slight overbite Abigail was one of the most appealing and memorable stars of the Golden Age of Porn Her lusty contributions to such classic pictures as Naked Afternoon 1976 Desires Within Young Girls 1977 7 Into Snowy 1978 and SexWorld 1978 were always arousing One of Gails early adult films was Dixie 1976 In this film she plays a promiscuous underage teenage prostitute Dixie was a film Gail regretted making as it was told with a leering perspective and also the one and only time she worked with people she didnt know Gail Lawrence also appeared in a few mainstream movies She starred alongside Gérard Depardieu in Rêve de singe 1978 was especially memorable as a hapless model who is brutally murdered by vicious psychotic Joe Spinell in the horror slasher cult favorite Maniac 1980 and had a small part as a nun in the comedy Les fesses à lair 1981 Abigail quit appearing in hardcore films in 1980 She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2008