I’ll bet the career change is also much less degrading, too.
Well deserved, too. I saw her a few years ago in the role.
Is this a first?
Has there ever been an actor before who went from playing a character on network TV for seven years to working in porn?
-Kris
Pretty specific there, aren’t you? 
Probably not under those particular circumstances, but can you include people like Dustin Diamond, who made a sex tape?
How about Stephen Geoffreys, who was in Fright Night (Roddy McDowell), then went into gay porn? Stephen Geoffreys - IMDb
There was Jaimee Foxworth, who played little Judy Winslow on Family Matters for 5 seasons or so before she was Chuck Cunninghamed off the show. She did some porn back in 2000.
“ho it up”? Witherspoon? Paltrow? Alley? Chenoweth? I think we may well have different definitions of “ho”. In fact if I were to put together a short list of some of the more together A and B list women most of these would be part of it. Sorry Kristen, love ya, but you’re a “B” list at best in the world of Hollywood. Sorry Kirstie, I’m happy you’ve kicked your coke addiction, but OT VII makes you a bit of a nut. Paltrow and Witherspoon, both academy award winners, have had marriages fail, but neither is a self-destructive ho a-la Lindsey Lohan or Britney Spears.
When I first saw the link you posted I thought “OMG! the former Miss America is a dead ringer for Kristen Chenoweth! I gotta get me a copy of whatever porn she ends up doing because even if it’s not the real thing, Kristen is so freaking hot.” Then I find it’s all a mistake. 
Chenoweth, alas, did not win a Tony for “Wicked”. Idina Menzel did(they were both nominated). Chenoweth had previously won a “Best Featured Actress” Tony for “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” and Menzel had been passed over for her work in “Rent”, so odds are the Tony committee was influenced by both these factors in their decision to give the nod to Menzel when they both came up for “Wicked”.
Enjoy,
Steven
Not the famous actors, the Gamma Phi Betas on the right hand side of that page.
No she didn’t. Her Tony was for playing Sally in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She was nominated for Glinda, but her Wicked co-star Idina Menzel won that year instead.
Whoops, Mtgman beat me to it
Ya know, its 2009. Being in porn is almost respectable. And I bet its more than almost respectable than being in a ‘beauty pageant’.
Because, when you think about it, porn is actually just a 100% honest, no-bullshit beauty contest: Here she is in a formal. Here she is in an evening gown. In a bathing suit. Playing the trumpet. He’s how she looks naked. Here she is sucking cock…
Vivid is also one of the most “respectable” companies in porn. They have their stars under contract, and they attempt to make “real” movies, with acting and plots - in contrast to the vast mainstream of porn which ranges from simple scenarios (“I’m the plumber and am here to clean your pipes”) to plot-free “gonzo”. They’re considered couples porn, and unusually woman friendly, as opposed to the twisted misogyny that has infected most porn.
She could do much, much worse.
Didn’t work out too well for Paris Hilton or Rob Lowe.
Gawd help us - those are some horrible 3d bits.
Or Dana Plato, but she had other problems.
Neither of whom have ever “worked in porn.”
No, no, no. Only a caged mud-wrestling match is worthy for the decision of such a mighty conflict.
Please don’t take this away from us! 