Erica Boyer(1956-2009)
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Lovely and slender brunette stunner Erica Boyer was born Amanda
Margaret Gantt on December 22, 1956 in Andalusia, Alabama. Her father
Joseph Breckenridge Gantt was a former attorney for the state of
Alabama. Erica was raised in a strict household and was raped in her
early teens by a boy she trusted. Boyer moved to San Francisco, California in the late 1970's
and began her career in the adult entertainment industry dancing and doing live sex shows at the O'Farrell Theater. Erica caught the
attention of Marilyn Chambers,
who encouraged Erica to make her hardcore movie debut in Beyond De Sade (1979). Boyer's adult film
career subsequently took off after this; she did well over one hundred
and fifty movies over the course of two decades. Erica specialized
in lesbian scenes and received a XRCO Award for Lascivious Lesbian
Scene at the first annual XRCO Awards show in 1985.
Boyer took a hiatus from the adult film industry in 1994, but made a regrettably brief comeback in the late 1990's prior to retiring from the adult film industry on a permanent basis and settling down in Panama City Beach, Florida. In the wake of her retirement Erica started her own massage therapy business as well as did volunteer work as both a clown and face painter. She was inducted into both the AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame. Moreover, Boyer was married twice and was the mother of a son, Davis. Erica's life came to a tragic abrupt end when she was struck and killed by an off-duty Florida Highway Patrol Officer driving a 2001 four-door Hyundai on December 31, 2009 in Panama City Beach, Florida; she was only 53 years old.
Boyer took a hiatus from the adult film industry in 1994, but made a regrettably brief comeback in the late 1990's prior to retiring from the adult film industry on a permanent basis and settling down in Panama City Beach, Florida. In the wake of her retirement Erica started her own massage therapy business as well as did volunteer work as both a clown and face painter. She was inducted into both the AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame. Moreover, Boyer was married twice and was the mother of a son, Davis. Erica's life came to a tragic abrupt end when she was struck and killed by an off-duty Florida Highway Patrol Officer driving a 2001 four-door Hyundai on December 31, 2009 in Panama City Beach, Florida; she was only 53 years old.