Sue Nero, born Susan Nero on July 6, 1959, in Boston, Massachusetts, is a retired American adult film actress and exotic dancer raised in a strict, conservative, middle-class Catholic family in nearby Natick, Massachusetts. Growing up, she competed in various sports and was a varsity cheerleader at Natick High School, fostering an athletic and outgoing persona, per IMDb and Boobpedia. After high school, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976 at age 17, initially working as a stripper in local clubs, a career choice sparked by her already having 36F cup breasts, per The Rialto Report. She would later say, "Guys were staring at them all day so I might as well make some money off them". In 1978, encouraged by her then-boyfriend and adult film actor Jesse Adams, she entered the adult film industry, starting with hardcore loops before transitioning to feature films, per Boobpedia. She used aliases including Susie Nero, Suzanne Nero, Susan Shields, Scarlett Kennedy, and Susann Nero, with Sue Nero becoming her primary stage name, per IAFD. Her entry into porn was driven by both financial opportunity and a rebellious streak against her family’s strict values, per Adult Cinema Review (1982). Nero’s adult film career, spanning 1978 to 1996, saw her star in approximately 130–204 hardcore films and loops for studios like Wet Video, Metro, Classic X Collection, and DBM, per IAFD and Boobpedia.