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Abigail Clayton

Acting Born Nov 28, 1958 Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA 24 credits

Biography

Adult-film 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 youthful-looking brunette with perky B-cup breasts, prominent nipples, doe-like 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 Gail's 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 didn't 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 l'air (1981). Abigail quit appearing in hardcore films in 1980. She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2008.

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Known for

Film

Maniac

as Rita

Full filmography

  • Maniac (1980) as Rita
  • So Fine (1981) as Nun
  • Bye Bye Monkey (1978) as Angelica
  • Hardcore to Horror (2016) as (archive footage)
  • 7 Into Snowy (1977) as Snowy
  • SexWorld (1978) as Marian Lake
  • Legends of Porn (1987) as (archive footage)
  • The Best of Porno (1980) as (archive footage)
  • Good to the Last Drop (1986) as (archive footage)
  • Suck 'n' Fuck Icons (2023) as (archive footage)
  • Swedish Erotica Hard 8 (1992) as (archive footage)
  • Femmes de Sade (1976) as Ellen
  • A Coming of Angels (1977) as Jennifer
  • Naked Afternoon (1976) as Tomasina Kelly
  • Dixie (1976) as Dixie
  • Spirit of Seventy Sex (1976) as Missy
  • Love Lips (1976) as Ann Taylor
  • Hot Cookies (1977) as Helen the Socialite
  • That's Porno (1979) as Girl with Blue Choker (archive footage)
  • The Health Spa (1978) as Alice
  • Cave Women (1979) as Cavewoman #2
  • Midnight Hustle (1976) as (archive footage)
  • Untamed (1978) as Cathy
  • October Silk (1980) as Martin's Wife