A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Joanna Collins
Ona
Ona Simms
Ona Simms Wiegers
Ona Z
Ona Z.
Ona Zimmerman
Una Z
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Born:
March 3, 1951
Ona Zee is a retired pornographic actress active between 1987-2003. She was born Ona Leichtman on March 3, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. Zee graduated from University High School in West Los Angeles and attended California State University Northwestern, but didn't graduate. Zee was a professional model for the prestigious Wilhelmina Agency in the 1970's., she appeared in TV commercials for J.C. Penney, Levi's Jeans, Standard Shoes, Ultra Brite Toothpaste, and also took acting lessons. Zee began performing in explicit hardcore movies in her mid-30's in the mid 1980's. Zee formed a porn film actors union in the 1990's, but it collapsed due to lack of legal and political support. After retiring from the adult film industry, Ona reportedly went on to work as a real estate agent for Caldwell Banker in Los Angeles. A member of the AVN Hall of Fame, Zee has been married twice.
Wardrobe Supervisor:
1991 The Art of Dying
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.