Biography

December 2, 1976 · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mitch Hartwell

5′ 10″ (1.78 m)

Entered porn in his native Canada in April of 1998, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue it full-time in February of 1999.

His favorite foreign locations to shoot videos are Prague, Brazil and Montreal.

His first sex scene in Los Angeles was for Gangbang Girl 24 (1999).

In 2008 he moved from the San Fernando Valley into a two-story loft in downtown Los Angeles.

If you like sex, it's [the adult film industry] a good business. The money is good. I have no complaints.

I still charge my rate and I don't work for free, but I'm aware that this is the best job in the world.

[on being recognized in public] I took a girlfriend and a buddy of mine to see a Fear Factory show. We were up in Vancouver [B.C., Canada] and I was just in the crowd waiting for the band to go on. I was with my friends and this guy is just staring at me. He comes over and says, "Oh my God, you're Erik Everhard". We were in the middle of the mosh pit and he's having his girlfriend take pictures with me. All of my friends were blown away. They knew me before I did porno and they had never seen that kind of reaction. There was another time when I was in Ralphs [a supermarket]. I was doing a money transfer. I see these clerks all the time and as I'm about to walk away the guy whispers to me, "Hey, done any new movies lately?" The guys all knew Anabolic. It made me think that there are probably people every day who know who we are, but they won't say anything. If we were mainstream actors, no one would think twice, but because we're porn stars, they keep quiet.

[on moving to Los Angeles to become a porn star] I literally had all the clothes I owned in one bag and came down in a little Geo Metro. My buddy came down with me. He paid for two months rent on this little shack in North Hollywood. I was paying $395 a month for rent, which tells you that when the light goes off, critters move.

I'm the Eastern European traveler. People can always expect an Eastern European influence in my movies. I'm going to be looking at newer territories, and expand into Ukraine and Russia if I can, and see what supermodels I can drag in front of the camera.