Ninn Worx, the high-end production company owned by director Michael Ninn, has signed Penthouse Pet Heather Vuur to an exclusive performance contract.
Vuur, the Penthouse Pet of the Month in January and cover girl in May, actually sought out Ninn after being intrigued by his style of filmmaking.
“I was working with Penthouse, and I said, ‘I really want to get into movies and I really like the work of Michael Ninn.’ They called him up for me and told him I wanted to meet with him. We met, and that’s where the magic began,” Vuur told AVN.com. “We had an instant understanding. I loved his art, and I was just excited he would have a meeting with me.
“When I met him he was excited that a person like me would want to get into adult movies. I guess I’m a little different. I’m excited to express myself in a really erotic, but artistic manner.”
The starlet said the one-year deal calls for at least four movies, possibly six. Her first project, Ninn’s Sacred Sin, will be released in September and also marks her debut in adult films.
The 5-foot-8, hazel-eyed, Dutch beauty arrives in adult with a mainstream background that ranges from independent film roles to infomercials and numerous appearances in high-profile music videos.
“It was consistent work for like three years,” said Vuur, who has appeared in videos for artists such as Britney Spears, Korn and several rappers doing both dancing and acting. “I really enjoyed doing dancing for rock groups like Velvet Revolver and Korn.”
Vuur, whose last name means “of the fire” and is taken from her Dutch ancestry, is also a veteran of the U.S. Army, where she was a food and health inspector for three years.
“And at night I would go to college and I finished my degree,” she said. “I have a Bachelor’s of Science in teaching.”
She has also traveled the world, living in the Costa Rican jungle for a period when she led people on jungle and zip line (canopy) tours.
“I lived in the middle of a national park, and I learned how to speak Spanish,” added Vuur, who also rides a motorcycle.
“Life is fun,” she says. “You do whatever you want, whatever makes you feel good. My mother raised me with one saying, ‘Go big, or go home.’”
She went big in Sacred Sin, a movie in which she was able to display her acting abilities as well as her sex appeal in the lead role.
“It was amazing,” Vuur said. “I came to Michael Ninn because I really liked his work, but I had no idea about what capacity he could use me in.
“Between meeting him and starting the movie, it all happened in literally 10 days, but it all flowed really well. I had done acting in the past. That’s what I was doing prior to the adult world, so it was a natural fit. His work is demented and beautiful and has all these different sides to it that I share and understand.”
Ninn remarked, "She’s an incredible actress on top of being stunningly beautiful. Anyone that can pull off my psychobabble and make it believable is one hell of an actress. Her energy for this picture was just amazing.”
Vuur’s character, Trask, was actually first written for a male lead, but the script was rewritten to provide a starring vehicle for her. Trask is a ghost for part of the movie.
“My character was very depressed in the beginning, but when she dies and comes back, she doesn’t give a fuck. She doesn’t care. It’s just brutal,” Vuur continued. “She has nothing to lose because she just lost everything and she takes people, takes everything from them and throws them out. It’s a very dark, gothic character that I played, which is me to a certain degree. But I’m also blond, and light-hearted.”
Vuur performs a three-way, all-girl scene with A.J. Bailey and Nevaeh and also performs in several solo sequences in between dialogue scenes.
“I had this script that was 50 pages, and 30 of them were mine,” she said.
While her debut only includes girl/girl and solo sex, she has left open the possibility of doing boy/girl in the future.
Vuur was born in Hollywood but grew up in Santa Rosa, Calif., near San Francisco. She hooked up with Penthouse as a result of her three-year friendship with photographer Ken Marcus, who shot her January pictorial.
“We were occasionally hanging out, doing photo shoots, but I wouldn’t take off my clothes for the first year,” Vuur said. “It was a three-year process to get comfortable.”
Then former adult star Stacy Valentine, the director of model recruitment for Penthouse, spotted Vuur on Marcus’ computer one day and asked if she’d be interested in doing a layout.
“It was nerve-wracking, but thank God I had done work prior with Ken,” Vuur recalled. “Even though it was new, it wasn’t frightening, it was exciting. I liked it. It was very liberating to just to be able to express myself like that.”
Vuur initially thought posing nude was a one-time deal.
“When I went to do the Penthouse pictures, I thought if they even get published that would be a fun thing,” she said. “I had no thought that it would start a whole other career, but I’m so happy that it has. I’m enjoying it so much.”
To see a photo gallery of Vuur, click here.
