Samantha Bentley (born 8 October 1987) is an English former

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, musician and writer.

Early life

Bentley was born and raised in South London, England. She

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while attending university, where she studied

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, before working in pornography.

Career

Bentley started

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when she was around 18 or 19 years old and has appeared in

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of '' The Sun''. She decided to enter the adult film industry after an ex-boyfriend told her it would be "cool" if she were a porn star. She began by filming her own amateur videos, which are no longer in her possession. When she was 20 years old, she performed solo for a British tease website which posted her work under the name Samantha B, Samantha being her real first name. She initially wanted to use the stage name Pixie May, but a friend of hers suggested she use a name similar to the one from the tease site in order to make it easier for fans to find her. She initially worked for two years in girl/girl scenes only. She did her first scene, which was for 21Sextury, in 2011 at the age of 22 in

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with a

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female performer. Her first boy/girl scene was with Ian Tate for Harmony Films in 2012. This was also her first anal sex scene. She was the ''

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'' Pet of the Month for August 2015.

Mainstream media appearances

Bentley played a prostitute in the fourth season of the HBO series '' Game of Thrones'', appearing in a bath scene opposite

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, who is played by

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. In April 2015, it was announced that Bentley will also appear in the show's fifth season. She has also appeared in a music video for

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and in a mainstream film titled ''Look of Love''. On 19 August 2014, '' Cosmopolitan UK'' published an article titled "14 weird questions about life as a porn star, answered by professionals", in which Bentley is featured. On 7 February 2016, she penned a blog for ''

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'' titled "Women Against Feminism – A Pornstar's Point of View", in which she criticised

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who slut-shame porn actresses, and is now a writer for Jerrick Media talking about sex, porn, geek culture, yoga and health.

Other ventures

On 16 April 2015, Bentley made her

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debut at Total Uprawr in the

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. She also plays classical

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. She joined a PETA campaign in protest against the

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's plan to send four macaque monkeys to

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in 2017, in which she was laid in a pool of

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while wearing

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that depicted her as a monkey in a

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outside of the Embassy of Russia in London on 13 January 2016.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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