Maria Tortuga was born on September 14, 1949 in Seattle, Washington. Her mother was a member of the first Mexican folk dance company in the United States. Maria grew up in a family with three other siblings. Following graduation from high school Tortuga moved to California to pursue her interest in conceptual art. Maria studied with feminist artist Judy Chicago at the nonprofit arts and education center the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. In addition, Tortuga also studied both Spanish and flamenco dancing with renowned performer Roberto Amaral in the late 1970’s as well as served as the flamenco soloist in the Layalina Folkloric Ensemble. After graduating with an MFA, Maria went on to work for many years as the principal designer at local carpet mills. Tortuga decided to supplement her income and express herself sexually by doing hardcore loops and modeling for assorted men’s magazines (she often posed for photos with a bondage motif). Maria began appearing in explicit hardcore movies in the late 1970’s; among the notable adult cinema directors she worked for are Gerard Damiano, William Margold, Don Christian, David Worth, Ed De Priest, Alan Colberg, and Vinnie Rossi.
After retiring from the adult film industry in 1987, Maria decided to follow her key passion for dancing full time by moving to Chicago, Illinois and changing her name to Maria Gitana. Tortuga studied with the Spanish Dance Society and traveled over to Europe to dance for a while at Amor de Dios with Maria Magdalena, who was the Ballet Mistress of the Ballet Nacional de Espana. Maria was awarded a grant to study classical Spanish dance with Spanish Dance Society founding member Dame Marina Keet in 1992. After achieving the status of Maestra de Baile with the Spanish Dance Society, Tortuga returned to Chicago and started the flamenco dance troupe Manteca Colora. Maria moved back to her home state of Washington to be closer to her aging parents in 1998 and started the performing dance troupe Flamenco Gitana in 2004. Moreover, Tortuga taught dance and pilates at several local schools and community centers. Starting in 2010 Maria was the recipient of several Youth Arts Awards from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Affairs. Tortuga used the associated grant to establish cultural arts programs in flamenco dance at local youth centers. Maria also did the choreography for a number of local theater productions. Tortuga died from cancer at age 65 on November 3, 2014.
Maria Tortuga Biography / Wiki
| Name | Maria Tortuga |
| Also Know | Mana La Fantuna, Brenda Hale, Maria Tartuga, Marie Tortuga, Robin Comings, Maria Sharp, Maria Torres, Tara, Maria Maines |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1949-09-14 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 65 |
| Deathday | 2014-11-03 |
Maria Tortuga Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Pleasure Dome | Maria | 1982-12-26 | A young woman gets hold of a magic mask, and it brings her back to her previous life in the Middle Ages as a sorceress, in which she seduces knights, … |
| I Wanna Be Teased! | Tina | 1984-01-01 | Maria Tortuga and Melanie Scott are a pair of unlikely sisters who get into all manner of sexy hijinks. Trouble looms when Maria refuses to look for … |
| Jezebel | Gypsy | 1979-05-23 | Throughout history one name, by its very mention, has been able to not only strike fear but also electrify man’s sexual desire. Songs have been writte… |
| Love to Mother | Michelle | 1984-01-01 | Her son is having problems with his mother’s choice of lovers. The mother decides to seduce him as well and adds a few girls to spice things up…. |
| For Services Rendered | Nocturna Vigil | 1985-02-18 | The evil Nocturna Vigil and her hot hit girl Tasi Delite steal some sexually incriminating microfilm from the Soviet Embassy. Called to the London off… |
| Golden Age of Porn: Annette Heaven | 2004-01-01 | See what porn was like in the golden age of porn. Annette Haven is an all natural beauty who knows how to pleasure a man. She could outsuck any of the… | |
| Let Me Tell Ya ‘Bout White Chicks | 1984-01-01 | A pimp and his jive-talking black brothers reminiscence about their erotic encounters with kinky white women…. | |
| Weekend Fantasy | Pussy | 1980-01-01 | A group of hedonists capture a television star while she is out jogging, and have their way with her in (among other places) a chicken coop…. |
| Cherry Ettes For Hire | 1984-01-01 | Young ladies from the country head to the city for adventure… | |
| Hot Love | 1980-01-01 | Overview Pending… | |
| Skintight | Maria | 1981-06-01 | The doctor in charge of a sex clinic finds himself fantasizing about the sex therapist he has just hired…. |
| Scared Stiff | The Maid | Little did Roy and Karen realize when they moved into their Hollywood “Dream Mansion” that it was haunted by Fred and Ginger, two of the horniest ghos… | |
| Bad Girl | Maria | 1983-01-01 | Angel decides to skip school to fantasize about a coupling with her dream lover. When her boyfriend drops by, she’s so worked up that she tries to se… |
| Trouble Down Below | Carol (uncredited) | 1981-01-01 | Helen Heine has some serious trouble “down below”, she tells her doctor that she can only climax through anal sex but her husband doesn’t like that…. |
| Inspirations | 1982-10-14 | Feast your eyes on a carnal cornucopia of lust-filled erotic Inspirations, featuring a sizzling superstar cast. Ron Jeremy plays a down-and-out docto… | |
| Heat of the Moment | Jeep Thief | 1984-01-01 | John Holmes stars in this cavalcade of couplings with well-paced presentation of straight ahead sex. Before trimming muffs become popular, watch as th… |
| Burning Desire | 1983-01-01 | Burning Desire(s) will scorch your eyeballs! Jill Hunter and Tony Ellis, our prim and proper young guides present the revealing world of eroticism wit… | |
| Intimate Lessons | Monica Mock | 1982-01-01 | A group of students go on an excursion in the country to a castle for a lab course in sex education. Once there, they are subject to the whims of the… |
| A Lacy Affair | 1983-03-27 | An electrifying mix of beautiful women, superb photography, and non-stop sex combine to make this one outstanding lesbian extravaganza! With foxy K.C…. | |
| Pink Champagne | Tap Dancer | 1979-04-13 | A 1920s-era producer and his inamorata visit a brothel that specializes in movie-star lookalikes…. |
| The Sensuous Detective | 1980-01-01 | Some people think the life of a private detective is filled with cheap thrills and gorgeous babes. And they’re right. Take detective Mac Donald for in… | |
| Ginger Lynn & Company | (archive footage) | 1989-02-09 | Beautiful, blonde, shapely Ginger Lynn, one of the all-time hottest superstars of x-rated video entertainment, reveals in intimate detail the built-fo… |
| Why Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1983-08-22 | Gentlemen prefer blondes; blondes have more fun; and with the foxy Cindy Shepard and Desiree Lane as out guides, you’ll see why these gorgeous women w… | |
| John Holmes: The Lost Tapes | (archive footage) | 2003-05-13 | The legend returns. The long awaited missing films of John Holmes from the golden age of adult entertainment. The one and only John Holmes returns in … |
| Loving Lesbos | 1983-01-01 | The very best in Sapphic lust is featured as horny harem muff-drive maidens pearl-dive with each other. Loving touches, compassionate caresses, and te… | |
| Never So Deep | Brandy Wine | 1981-09-17 | Magazine mogul, Hugh Heffer, sends private eye Ginger Trueheart on a sex-sizzling search through San Francisco’s infamous “Tenderloin” district. It se… |
| Ballgame | The Beavers | 1980-02-01 | Here’s the pitch – 12 of the most beautiful, talented women ever to play ball, 24 of the most incredible breasts to ever hide in a wet T-shirt. 10 of … |
| Sounds of Sex | Brunette | 1985-01-01 | A divorcée eavesdrops on couples having sex and gets involved in their lives…. |
| Bisexual Fantasies | 1986-01-01 | A range of bisexual fantasies…. | |
| Frat House | Wilcox’ Daughter | 1979-03-22 | The guys in the ‘I Phelta Thi’ fraternity want to live out all their fantasies before they graduate…. |
| Plato’s: The Movie | Vicky | 1980-10-29 | Two intrepid female reporters enter Hollywood’s most exclusive club, Plato’s Retreat West. Between two orgies, they try to elucidate mysterious crimes… |
| Voyeur’s Delight | (archive footage) | 1986-01-31 | A telescope becomes a peephole into a world of sensual delights as a brunette beauty spies on her naughty neighbors. The voyeuristic premise serves as… |
| Night Flight | 1980-01-01 | A mysterious man arranges special flights. This one contains an oriental woman who smuggles diamonds, an embezzler, a female movie star, a male rock-s… | |
| Young and Restless | Jenny | 1983-01-01 | Women want to go to a brothel resort where men cater to their every sexual desire… |
| Love Goddesses | 1982-02-12 | Classic porn of the early 80s…. | |
| Foreplay | Social Worker | 1982-01-01 | Chloe works as a receptionist at a boarding house. She’s unaware that the guests are there to act out their sexual fantasies until she begins to spy … |
| Carnal Encounters of the Barest Kind | Brunette Frog | 1978-01-01 | UFO expert, Dr. Yes, has some startling news to reveal to a college calss -“we do not sleep alone!” Yes he has come to campus to lecture on the sexua… |
| The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue | Pregnancy Pass Girl / Orgy Girl | 1980-10-17 | The Satisfiers of Alpha Blue is set in a futuristic society which adores its sexual Satisfiers more than anything else. A space-age resort environment… |
| Undercovers | Third Girl on Couch (uncredited) | 1982-01-01 | Two former Siamese twins – Q and Grossfinger – are the respective leaders of good and evil. The evil Grossfinger sends agent Ken Starbuck to seduce ca… |
| Taxi Girls 2 | The Maid (as Maria Tartuga) | 1986-12-04 | These girls know the intimate details of the taxi business, that’s how they’re seducing fares away from the local cabbies of LA. In retribution the ca… |
| The New Erotic Adventures of Casanova 2 | Girl in the News | 1982-01-01 | Set in the renaissance era, this prequel finds the great lover battling villains and saving maidens in a variety of hilarious experiences…. |
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