Andrea Werhun

Andrea Werhun is a Canadian writer and actress from Toronto, Ontario. She is most noted for her 2018 book Modern Whore, a memoir of her time as a sex worker prior to establishing herself as a creative professional.

Werhun worked as an escort and as an erotic dancer. After leaving that line of work she wrote and published Modern Whore, but remained active as an outreach worker helping to educate active sex workers on issues such as safer sex and protecting themselves from violence.

After publishing Modern Whore, she appeared in a short documentary film adaptation of the book, directed by Nicole Bazuin. An expanded edition of the book was published by Penguin Random House Canada in 2022, and a feature film version of the documentary, directed by Bazuin and executive produced by Sean Baker, entered production in 2024.

In 2023, she was a producer of Bazuin's short film Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie.

In 2024, she served as a creative consultant on Baker's film Anora, and had an acting role in Sook-Yin Lee's film Paying for It.