Laurie Holmes
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Laurie Holmes

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*** At age fifty-one, Laurie Holmes (born Laurie Rose) is an apt example of what it is to be a survivor – though she’d be the first one to proclaim she’s nobody’s victim. The youngest of three children from a nuclear family in New Mexico, Laurie was like any other little girl growing up in the southwestern United States during the late 1960s and 1970s.The daughter of a military man and kindergarten teacher, Laurie became a mother during her teen years and entered adult movies in 1982 to support her young son. She chose the stage name “Misty Dawn.” In her first feature film, The Best Little Cathouse in Las Vegas (aka For Love or Money, 1982), Laurie co-starred opposite veteran actor Rhonda Jo Petty. Though her tenure as a performer was sporadic, Laurie’s petite stature coupled with a high-spirited girlish essence and well-formed figure made Laurie popular with male audiences. Shortly after her introduction to the erotic film indusry, the young performer fell in love with legendary porn star John Holmes after meeting him on the San Francisco set of Marathon (1983). A few months later, John invited Laurie and her son to move in with him, and became a mentor to his ready-made family. She married Holmes in January 1987. After joining the ranks of the new breed of female adult performers in the early 1980s, Laurie starred in her own feature film vehicles. In 1985, Laurie put her acting career on hold and became an office clerk for Penguin Productions, an adult video company Holmes formed along with his partner Bill Amerson. Granted the responsibility to balance the books and preside over accounts that had fallen into arrears, Laurie eventually became vice-president of Penguin, watching it turn a healthy profit during its short term in operation. After Holmes passed away from AIDS-related causes in 1988, Laurie relocated outside of Los Angeles and found work at various jobs that included dancing and bartending. She met her second husband, Colombian born Tony Montana, in 1999, during a brief return to films. At the start of the new millennium, Laurie was employed at AIM (Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation) under Dr. Sharon Mitchell. In 2003 at age forty, Laurie retired from the adult business. Employed full time in the medical community, Holmes resides in the Colorado Mountains and has a new lease on life. She concentrates on the elements she believes are essential to her well-being: love, family, friends and nature. Laurie manages to retain a few vestiges from her untamed youth however, demonstrated by her passion for politics, rock and roll music, driving in the high country, and a propensity to speak her mind. ***
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