Name	Joanna Angel
Height	4' 11"
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	25 December 1980
Place of Birth	Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Angel was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Orthodox Jewish Israeli mother and an American father. She was raised in River Edge in Bergen County, New Jersey, where she attended Cherry Hill Elementary School and graduated from River Dell High School in 1998. After graduating at age 17 she enrolled in Rutgers University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature with a minor in Film Studies.[4]

She worked in a Kosher fast food restaurant in Teaneck NJ during high school, then at an Applebees and another restaurant, called Happy's Health Grille during college.[5]

After finishing her degree she relocated to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York and created the website BurningAngel, a hardcore adult site catering to an emerging genre dubbed alt porn, while she danced as a stripper at night.[3] Her website followed in the footsteps of the very popular SuicideGirls, which she has referred to as "the McDonald's of alt porn."[6] When asked whether she thought that alt porn was turning into a movement she stated, "I think it's a movement. I think I've started something."[7]