Lori Sanders – Inducted 2007
This Eurasian beauty was born in Los Angeles, California January 12, 1958 as Jennifer Lynn Wren. Her father was was a former fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force in Korea. He met her mother, who is Japanese, during his time overseas and they married. So that is what accounts for her absolutely gorgeous exotic look.
In the period of the late 1970’s and the beginning of the 1980’s the 5’ 3”, auburn-haired Jennifer was working as a glamour model. She began to draw the attention of several photographers and art-directors. It was at this point that her career would change along with her name.
Before she entered into doing porn films, Ms. Sanders appeared in some of the top men’s magazines at the time which included Swank, Pub, Gallery, Genesis and others under her new name of Loni Sanders. In April of 1980, Ms. Sanders really got noticed with her nude pictorial spread in Penthouse magazine.
In 1980 Sanders met adult film star Mike Ranger on the set of a soft-core picture. The two married and she began to appear in hardcore porn films. At first she only did scenes with Ranger and other women, but soon that changed doing all out scenes with other male porn stars as well.
Among some of her best films are “Kiss and Tell”, “Sexboat”, “8 to 4”, “Never So Deep”, “Summer of ’72” and “Night Dreams”. Ms. Sanders and Ranger got a divorce and she then quit acting full-time in X-rated movies in the mid-’80s. She moved behind the scenes and became a production manager for Vivid Video. Ms. Sanders still occasionally popped up in non-sexual cameo roles in porno flicks starring 1980s adult queen Ginger Lynn..
While she never achieved superstar status during her time in front of the cameras Loni had three things going for her that made her popular. First was her Eurasian beauty, second was her voracious sexual appetite and third, she also possessed some very natural acting chops and could deliver dialogue in a very convincing and believable way. Putting that all together in one very sexy package gave this beauty a chance to really show off her varied talents.
The last anyone knew was that Loni, who would now be 66, was living in the Los Angeles area and disconnected from the industry but doing well. As a tribute and testimony to her importance to the adult industry, she is a well deserved inductee in both the AVN Hall of Fame and XRCO Hall of Fame.
If you have never seen this very talented lady perform, I suggest getting one of the films we mentioned in this piece. They are all available on DVD and will provide you with some great entertainment from Loni Sanders one of the true stars of porn’s golden age.
Art Koch, National Features & DVD Editor, NightMoves Magazine and AAN
