Ron Jeremy is an American adult-film actor, and teacher who has a net worth of $6 million. He was born in Long Island, New York, on March 12th, 1953. His family has a Jewish background. Jeremy was born into a middle-upper-class Jewish family, his father was a doctor, while his mother a book publisher. who served in the O.S.S. During World War II while she spoke German and French.
School days.
Ron Jeremy attended to Cardozo a High School in Bayside located in Queens; The former director of the CIA, George Tenet and the actor Reginald Veljohnson were his classmates. He has a BA in Education and Theater and a Master’s in Special Education from Queens College, City University of New York. He is also a member of the international fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon. He taught special education classes in the New York area, and he was a substitute teacher.
Beginnings in porn.
He left teaching, to work as an actor in New York City, and he says he discovered a taste for making money as an actor while ” he was hungry on Off Broadway.” Jeremy posed for Playgirl after his then girlfriend presented his photo to the magazine, and subsequently moved to the adult film industry as a mean to get some extra money. His first appearance in a pornographic film was Chuck Vincent’s film called Snap (although later it was renamed COD14).
He began using his first and middle name in the adult industry, after his grandmother Rose was bothered by the people who called her thinking that they were contacting Ron.
The hedgehog.
Jeremy made his nickname “The Hedgehog” granted to him by Bill Margold after an accident on the set of Olympic Fever, filmed in 1979. Jeremy traveled to New York to shoot, and he had dressed wearing a T-shirt and pants, waiting for the hot moment and begin practicing the anal. During his motorcycle ride to the set, located on the outskirts of Lake Arrowhead in the mountains of California, the weather had evolved to a blizzard that cooled him until he suffered a hypothermia.
To get to the set, Jeremy was immediately taken to a hot shower to warm him up. By the time he had finished, his skin had taken on a pinkish hue from the temperature extremes, and his body’s hair were erect to the point.
Marigold’s comments about Jeremy after the shower were “You’re a hedgehog, my friend. A walker, talking hedgehog with a very small cock.”
Guinness Record.
Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for “Most Appearances in Adult Films” His entry on the Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) lists more than 1900 films in which he has acted, which in 264 he was also the director. By comparison, John Holmes – the next closest male star in the AVN Top 50 porn stars – has only 384 acting credits listed on the IAFD.
Non porn appearance.
Outside of the adult film industry, Jeremy worked as a “special consultant” for the 1986 film Nine Weeks and a Half. He also worked as a consultant on the 1997 film Boogie Nights which chronicles the emergence of fictional porn star Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) and appeared in the 1999 film, The Boondock Saints.
