Allen began as a nude model and then began performing in hardcore sex films as Ginger Lynn by December 1983. Her first pornographic movie role was in Surrender in Paradise, in which she starred with Jerry Butler.
Allen’s “girl next door” good looks led to a quick rise in her popularity and eventually she became one of the most popular female performers in adult-entertainment history. She had her own line of videos through Vivid Entertainment with the director Bruce Seven.
Allen received the Best New Starlet award in 1985 and is an inductee to the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) halls of fame.
Allen signed a contract with Vivid Entertainment founder, Steven Hirsch, making her the first ‘Vivid Girl’ and beating out the then-underaged Traci Lords. She was later called to testify on Lords’ behalf against porn producers; she refused, and according to her, was then targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for falsification of a tax return.
Allen returned to the adult-entertainment industry in 1999 for three movies: Torn (1999), White Lightning (2000), and New Wave Hookers 6 (2000). In March 2006, she became a host of Playboy Radio’s Sirius Satellite Radio show, Night Calls Radio, with former adult-entertainment performer Christy Canyon. In June 2007, Allen performed for two of Kink.com’s hardcore websites, Ultimate Surrender and Sex and Submission.
Filmography
1984 Surrender In Paradise as Tammy
1984 Too Good to Be True as Felicia
1984 The Pink Lagoon as Tammy
1984 Panty Raid as Wendy
1984 Night of Loving Dangerously as Trixie
1984 Kinky Business – AVN Awards 1985 Best Couple in a Sex Scene (with Tom Byron) as Gloria
1984 Illusions of Ecstasy as Melanie
1984 Electric Blue 17 as Miss Johnson
1984 Suze’s Centerfolds 8 as Tennis Player (Sex Athletics)
1984 Up Up and Away as Gail
1984 China and Silk as Mandy Walker
1984 Those Young Girls as Ginger
1984 Girls on Fire as Suzie
1984 Slumber Party – AVN Awards 1986 Best Couple in a Sex Scene (with Eric Edwards) as Dawn
1984 Jailhouse Girls as Joanne MacIntyre
1984 Electric Blue 19 as Bev
1985 Trashy Lady as Kitty
1985 Ten Little Maidens – AVN Awards 1986 Best Couples Sex Scene as Carol
1985 Taboo 4: The Younger Generation as Robin Lodge
1985 Suzie Superstar II as Tina
1985 New Wave Hookers as Cherry
1985 Ginger Lynn: The Movie – AVN Awards 2006 Best Classic Release on DVD as Ginger
1985 Surrender In Paradise as Tammy
1985 Project: Ginger – AVN Awards 1986 Best Actress – Video as Ginger
1985 Electric Blue: Beverly Hills Wives as Rich Woman
1985 Ginger On The Rocks as Ginger
1985 Poonies as Ginger
1986 Blame It on Ginger as Ginger
1986 Beverly Hills Cox as Suzy Cox
1986 Electric Blue 39 as Pepper
1986 Electric Blue 42 as Nurse Diane
1986 Electric Blue 43 as Rachel
1987 Blow-Off as Mrs. White
1987 Ginger & Spice as Ginger / Ricebird
1987 Ginger Snaps as Ginger
1987 Electric Blue 47 as Bumper
1987 Electric Blue 51 as Muffin Delight
1999 Ginger Lynn’s Torn – XRCO Awards 1999 Best Lesbo Scene (with Chloe) as Clarisse Bijou
2000 New Wave Hookers 6 as Audrey
2000 White Lightning as Gabby White
2001 Taken – 2002 AVN Award for Best Actress as Kim
2002 Devon Stripped as Wanda
2002 Crime & Passion as Kim
2002 Sunset Stripped as Katherine Connors
2002 Behind Closed Doors as Woman
2004 Last Movie as Ginger
2004 Love and Bullets as Karen Roman
2007 Dirty Rotten Mother Fucker
2008 Big Loves 4
2008 Blacks On Cougars
2008 Watching My Mom Go Black
2009 My First Sex Teacher 17
2009 The Cougar Club 2
2009 White Mommas
2009 Ginger Loves Girls! as Ginger
2010 Saw: A Hardcore Parody as Police Secretary
Awards
1984 XRCO Starlet of the Year
1984 XRCO Video Vixen
1984 XRCO Female Performer of the Year
1985 AVN Best New Starlet
1985 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene – Film for Kinky Business (with Tom Byron)
1985 XRCO Best Group Grope Scene for New Wave Hookers (with Steve Powers and Tom Byron)[
1986 AVN Best Actress – Video for Project: Ginger
1986 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene – Video for Slumber Party (with Eric Edwards)
1986 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene – Film for Ten Little Maidens
1995 XRCO Hall of Fame
2000 Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame
2000 XRCO Best Girl-Girl Scene for Torn (with Chloe)
2002 AVN Best Actress – Film for Taken
AVN Hall of Fame
2002 NightMoves National Lifetime Achievement Award
2007 NightMoves Hall of Fame