Nina Hartley (born Marie Hartman; March 11, 1959) is an American pornographic actress, pornographic film director and sex educator.

Hartley was born in Berkeley, California to a Jewish family and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the youngest of four children, with an older sister and two older brothers. Her parents converted to Buddhism when she was young. After graduating high school in 1977, she attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate nursing school and grad