Michelle Anne Sinclair was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah in a Mormon
household. Her father was a retired Air Force captain and former Mormon Bishop. She has seven siblings: three
brothers, three sisters and a half sister from her mother. Her parents are divorced and both have remarried.
Sinclair had a turbulent childhood: she got her first tattoo at age 12, and at age 14 she attempted suicide.
She dropped out of high school and moved out at the age of 15.
Career
Belladonna got into the adult film industry after she moved to Los Angeles to become a nude model. Her career
began in 2000 when she was only 19. She has appeared in over 250 adult films with the majority of them being
anal-themed. Belladonna made it clear to the media that she felt anal sex is better and reduces the risk of
pregnancy.[citation needed] She now owns and operates Belladonna Entertainment with her partner and husband,
Aiden Kelly. She produces her own movies under the Belladonna Entertainment and Deadly Nightshade Productions
labels, exclusively distributed by Evil Angel.
She has appeared several times in the reality television series Family Business, which focuses on the life of
porn director Adam Glasser a.k.a. "Seymore Butts". In 2004 she was one of a number of porn stars photographed
by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders for a "coffee table book" on the adult industry, XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits;
she also appears in the HBO documentary Thinking XXX about the making of the book.
