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{{short description|American pornographic actress}}
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| caption = Zee in 2000
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| birth_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], US
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| spouse = Frank Zee (divorced)
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'''Ona Zee''' is an American [[pornographic film actor|pornographic actress]], [[Film director|director]], and producer of [[pornographic films]].

==Career==
Zee starred or appeared in over 300 adult movies since entering the industry in 1986.<ref name=avn1>{{cite web |title=Porn Power, Female Style |url=http://www.adultvideonews.com/cover/cover0701_01.html |website=adultvideonews.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030804201927/http://www.adultvideonews.com/cover/cover0701_01.html |archive-date=August 4, 2003}}</ref> She was about 35-years-old when she began, an age when many adult performers have already retired.<ref name=avn1/>

For 67 videos she served as director, writer, and producer. In 1990, she formed her own production company, Ona Zee Pictures.<ref name=avn1/> The company initially focused on bondage titles, but later moved on to other genres as well, such as feature and girl-girl movies.<ref name=avn1/><ref name=avn2>{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=Ken |title=Women On Top |url=http://www.adultvideonews.com/archives/199911/cover/cov1199.html |website=adultvideonews.com |publisher=Adult Video News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030412194714/http://www.adultvideonews.com/archives/199911/cover/cov1199.html |archive-date=April 12, 2003}}</ref>

During the 1990s, she formed a pornographic performers' union, but it ultimately collapsed due to lack of political and legal support.<ref name="Heberle">{{cite book |editor1-last=Heberle |editor1-first=Renee J. |title=Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno |year=2006 |publisher=Penn State University Press |isbn=0-2710-2880-7 |page=30 |chapter=An Interview with Drucilla Cornell}}</ref>

==Awards==
[[File:Ona zee.jpg|thumb|Ona Zee holding an AVN Award]]

* 1989 [[AVN Award]] – [[AVN Award for Best Actress|Best Actress (film)]] (''Portrait of an Affair'')<ref name=avn>{{cite web |url=http://www.avnawards.com/index.php?content=pastwinners |title=Past Winners |access-date=2007-09-22 |archive-date=February 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224064040/http://www.avnawards.com/index.php?content=pastwinners |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 1992 AVN Award – Best Actress, video (''Starlet'')<ref name=avn/>
* 1993 AVN Award – [[AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress (film)]] (''Secret Garden 1 and 2'')<ref name=avn/>
* 2000 [[Hot d'Or]] – Hot d'Or d'Honneur<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Hot Stuff at Hot d'Or Awards |magazine=Adult Video News |url=http://business.avn.com/articles/10548.html |date=2000-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100120064410/http://business.avn.com/articles/10548.html |archive-date=2010-01-20}}</ref>
* [[List of members of the AVN Hall of Fame|AVN Hall of Fame]]<ref name=AVNHOF>{{cite magazine |title=Past Winners - AVN Awards: Hall of Fame |url=http://www.avnawards.com/halloffame.php |magazine=Adult Video News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415212412/http://www.avnawards.com/halloffame.php |archive-date=April 15, 2009}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Zee was born in [[Los Angeles, California]]. According to the TV series HBO [[Real Sex]], Ona Zee was the spouse of Frank Zee, a Vietnam-era combat jet pilot. They were still married by the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |title=The One and Ona |website=Adult Video News |url=http://business.avn.com/articles/The-One-and-Ona-35214.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602105212/http://business.avn.com/articles/The-One-and-Ona-35214.html |archive-date=2016-06-02 |date=1999-10-11}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{IMDb name}}
* {{iafd name|id=OnaZ|gender=female|name=Ona Zee}}
* {{afdb name|id=414|gender=female|name=Ona Zee}}
* {{Twitter}}
* {{Facebook|ona.dawes}}
* {{LinkedIn URL|https://www.linkedin.com/in/onadawes}}

{{AVN Best Actress}}
{{AVN Best Supporting Actress}}
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[[Category:21st-century American women]]

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