Abigail Clayton
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.
Acting
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Maniac
as Rita
1980
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Bye Bye Monkey
as Angelica
1978
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SexWorld
as Marian Lake
1978
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So Fine
as Nun
1981
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Femmes de Sade
as Ellen
1976
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A Coming of Angels
as Jennifer
1977
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Desires Within Young Girls
as Suzy's Friend
1977
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Spirit of Seventy Sex
as Missy
1976
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Dixie
as Dixie
1976
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7 Into Snowy
as Snowy
1977
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Cave Women
as Cavewoman #2
1979
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October Silk
as Martin's Wife
1980
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Hardcore to Horror
as (archive footage)
2016
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Love Lips
as Ann Taylor
1976
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That's Porno
as Girl with Blue Choker (archive footage)
1979
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Untamed
as Cathy
1978
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Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 1
as Missy (archive footage)
1983
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The Girls in the Band
as Party Girl Applying Lipstick
1976
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Legends of Porn
as (archive footage)
1987
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Naked Afternoon
as Tomasina Kelly
1976
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Hot Cookies
as Helen the Socialite
1977
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The Health Spa
as Alice
1978
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Blue Ribbon Blue
as Jennifer (archive footage)
1985
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The Best of Alex de Renzy
as Joey's Girl
1983
