Judy Minx was born in Paris and is of Tunisian and Algerian descent.[2] She joined a feminist organization in 2005 when she was in high school. Right after she turned 18, in 2007, she became a porn actress in "mainstream straight porn".[3] She also started getting involved with queer and feminist porn movements. Along with her porn career, she continued her studies, and she holds a degree in English. Judy Minx is an activist for sex workers' rights, and she is close to the French sex worker's trade union (STRASS).[4] She has also given sex education workshops.[2][5]
In 2009, she appeared in the documentary film Les travailleu(r)ses du sexe, directed by Jean-Michel Carré.[6] In 2010, she starred the drama film The Final Girl by Todd Verow, which was defined as "a lesbian variation of Roman Polanski's The Tenant".[7] In 2011, she was one of the protagonists of Too Much Pussy!, a docudrama film directed by Emilie Jouvet that followed the journey through Europe (from Berlin to Malmö) of a group of six entertainers, all members the sex-positive movement.[8][9][10] That same year, she starred in a segment of Fucking Different XXX, a German independent film consisting of eight episodes, each shot by a different director and set in a different city, that have gay/lesbian love as a main theme.[11] In 2011, she appeared in the music video for the Ladytron song "White Elephant". In 2012, she appeared in the independent comedy film Mommy Is Coming, directed by Cheryl Dunye.[12] In 2013 she appeared on the Dutch documentary "Een man weet niet wat hij mist", where she has sex with a gold-star gay man on film in order to help him lose his heterosexual virginity.[13]