Sarah Jane Hamilton (born April 15, 1971 in London, England) is a pornographic actress. Hamilton grew up and went to secondary school in London. She described herself as an ugly shy girl back then and was bullied by her peers. She also lived in Australia for a time. She became known as one of the first "female ejaculators" from Britain; though this was later dismissed by porn reviewer Pat Riley as urination in his review of The British are Coming (1993). However, she has commented that she could not ejaculate on cue even though producers expect her to like a male performer. She was also the subject and collaborated at writing of a three parts-Carnal Comics-series with her same name, published in 1994 by Revolutionary Comics. She is bisexual in her personal life and is a vegetarian.

Chasey Lain (born December 7, 1971 in Cocoa Beach, Florida) is an American pornographic actress. She became a stripper as a young adult, and later pursued a career in California as an adult film actress. Lain was on AVN magazine's list of top 50 porn stars of all time in 2002. Chasey Lain was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida and grew up in Newport, North Carolina. Lain acted in her first adult film in 1991. The movie was titled Wild at Heart (not to be confused with the 1990 David Lynch film by the same name). In 1993, Lain did her first hardcore movie, The Original Wicked Woman, for Wicked Pictures, famous as the first adult video to document a breast enhancement, before and after. In 1994, she became a contract actress for Vivid Entertainment, where she gained her major success with titles like Chasey Loves Rocco and Chasey Saves the World. In 1997 she appeared in Orgazmo, a non-pornographic mainstream movie directed by Trey Parker. She had her own line of lesbian videos, the Chasin' Pink series. In 2002, she filmed her last film with Vivid Entertainment, Chasin' Pink 6, and took a break from the industry. In 2004, after 2 years on hiatus, Lain returned to adult films. Her first film

Ashley Spalding (born August 5, 1980), better known by the pseudonym Kaylani Lei, is an exotic dancer and a porn actress currently working for Wicked Pictures. Outside her adult film work, she was the host of a radio show on KSEX, Me So Horny With Kaylani Lei. Lei has made an appearance on the Howard Stern radio show while he was on national broadcast radio (pre-Sirius satellite radio change over), and makes appearances on Playboy TV. In 2007 she was the co star of the Cinemax series The Erotic Traveler, as Allison Kraft, apprentice erotic photographer. According to the Internet Adult Film Database, she has worked in over 95 films, including Beautiful, The Assignment, Kaylani Unleashed, Space Nuts for Wicked and Naked Lust. In 2010, Lei appeared alongside fellow Wicked Pictures contract star Alektra Blue in the Free Speech Coalition's "All-Star Anti-Piracy PSA" on the topic of internet piracy of adult content. Lei dated Byron Kelleher, a New Zealand rugby union halfback, from 2005 to 2006. She lived with him in New Zealand until June 2006.

Cindy Renee Volk, better known as Aria Giovanni (born November 3, 1977) is an American pornographic actress and model who was Penthouse magazine's Pet for the month of September 2000. She has modeled in a range of photographic styles and has also had roles in television shows. Aria Giovanni was born Cindy Renee Volk in Long Beach, California to an Italian-Yugoslav father and a French-German-Irish-Native American mother. She and grew up in Orange County. She attended a junior college in San Diego, majoring in biochemistry. In 2001, she played Monica Snatch in the movie Survivors Exposed, a parody of the Survivor television series. She also appeared on the November 16, 2001 episode of the TV dating show Shipmates. The following year, she starred in Justine which was recommended by AskMen.com as one of nine pornographic movies that women can enjoy. Giovanni was Playboy's Model of the Day for June 6, 2007. In October 2008, Giovanni appeared in the first episode of James Gunn's short-form web video series, James Gunn's PG Porn, playing a role opposite Nathan Fillion. Giovanni stars on the 2010 Nerdcore Horror Calendar. 2010 XBIZ Award Nominee - Web Babe/Starlet of the Year Giovanni was

Tanya Hansen (born September 11, 1973 in Jessheim, Norway) is a pornographic actress. Recently Hansen has been producing porn movies with her company Tanya Hansen Productions. Pictures of her have appeared in numerous glossy erotic publications, such as Hustler, Busty Beauties, Cheri, High Society and Gents.

Crystal Klein (born 1981 in Austria) worked as a swimsuit and adult model. Klein is one of the few women to have been both a Playboy Playmate (Croatian Playboy, October 2004) and a Penthouse Pet of the Month (March 2005). Klein studied psychology before she moved to Maui, Hawaii to surf and work as a swimsuit model.

Kylie Ireland (born May 26, 1970) is an American pornographic actress, film director, producer, publicist, and Satellite radio show host. Ireland was born on May 26, 1972, in Longmont, Colorado, a small community outside Denver. She grew up a good student until her parents divorced when she was 13. At 15 she became rebellious, including experimenting with recreational drugs, until her father sent her to live with her mother, who had remarried, in San Diego, California. In San Diego, Ireland returned to getting good grades, graduated high school, and started college, majoring in broadcast journalism. While going to high school and college, Ireland worked part-time ordering videos for a chain of video stores, which she credits for learning a lot about pornographic films. Ireland returned to Colorado to continue college partially in Boulder, Colorado, partially in Fort Collins, Colorado, and began to dance in a Fort Collins strip club. One of her first female lovers was a waitress at the same club who would become the pornographic actress Juli Ashton. Kylie Ireland chose her stage name after Australian singer Kylie Minogue, and her Irish heritage. She dyed her hair blonde, and had

Tamara Lee is a pornographic actress, nude model and exotic dancer, active in the adult entertainment industry from 1987 to 1993. Her filmography consists of some 64 movies, a relatively small number considering the timespan in which she was active. She parlayed a sweet, girl next door face and a voluptuous, all natural body into being a fan favorite. Due to a busy career as an exotic dancer, she worked in adult films only sporadically. She was popular in both the strip club and adult film scenes, until her eventual retirement sometime in the mid 1990s. There has been a persistent rumour on several popular adult sites claiming that Tamara Lee contracted HIV from her heroin-addict boyfriend. These rumours claim she died of AIDS 3 February 2005 in California. The staff at the Adult Film Database investigated these claims in a blog article. She was confirmed alive as late as 2006, and according to Adult Film Database had re-entered the porn industry, doing scenes with Dino Bravo for MILF-themed web sites.

Rodney Hopkins (born September 23, 1965 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian pornographic actor and director, known professionally as Brad Armstrong. He has been known as one of the most popular leading men in the sex industry, as well as "The King of Porn" and "The Spielberg of Skin Directors". He was once married to Jenna Jameson, but divorced in 2001. Since 2006, Armstrong is married to Jessica Drake.

Dahlia Grey is an American adult film actress who won the 2000 AVN Award for Best Tease Performance. Grey is featured in many Andrew Blake productions, where she is sometimes credited as Jami Dion. She was Penthouse pet of the Month for March 1992.

Devinn Lane (born March 28, 1972 in Newport Beach, California, U.S.) is an inactive adult model, pornographic actress, writer, director and producer. She is sometimes credited as Devin Lane or Devon Lane. She was chosen Penthouse Pet of the Month October 1999. Lane became pregnant at 16 and began stripping to support herself and her child in 1990. In 1996, while still dancing, she was offered work posing in hard-core men's magazines. She made her hardcore film debut in 1999, performing in only lesbian or girl/girl scenes. She signed an exclusive contract for the production company Wicked Pictures in December 1999. She has directed many films, notably all five installments of The Devinn Lane Show. In 2003, she began performing with men, starting with the final scene in The Devinn Lane Show 5: Save The Best For Last. Over the next two years she performed scenes with men in Kink, Lovestruck, Space Nuts, Improper Conduct, Wicked Sex Party 6, Beautiful, Stiletto, Tuff Chick, two Road Trixx movies (which she also directed), and Lover's Lane. As of 2005, she went on indefinite hiatus from on-screen work, focusing on directing for the production company Shane's World. Her first producer

Dyanna Lauren (born in Los Angeles, California on March 18, 1965) is an American erotic dancer, pornographic actress, and director. She appeared in nearly 250 movies between 1989 and 2000; in the years since, she has shifted away from acting and towards directing. Lauren was the Penthouse Pet of the Month in July 1995, and has been a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment. She was the first guest to appear as a single guest on Playboy TV's The Helmetcam Show. This appearance was broadcast live on August 21, 1996. In addition to her work in adult films, Lauren also sang and appeared on the Marilyn Manson album Mechanical Animals along with fellow porn star Kobe Tai. She also sang in the rock band Thousand Year Itch, who released one album in 2000. In 2007, Lauren became the CEO and spokesperson of Ninn Worx_SR, a film production company which is owned by her ex-husband, John Gray. Lauren was inducted into the Adult Video News Hall of Fame at ceremonies held on January 12, 2008. In April 2009, she began filming for her first feature appearance in over 10 years. Lauren identifies as bisexual.

Cherie is an American pornographic actress with Spanish and Italian heritage. She has appeared in adult-film magazines such as Private #169, Hustler 's Leg World and Hustler March 2003 issue. Cherie has also appeared in one of the episodes of Seymore Butts' TV show Family Business. Cherie has several tattoos: a barbed wire around her left biceps, a butterfly below her navel, and Hebrew text (דבורה, "Devorah") on her back.

Diana DeVoe is an American pornographic actress, director and scriptwriter. She made her porn video debut in 1999 and began directing pornographic films in 2002. In 2002, DeVoe was nominated for an AVN Award for Best Supporting Actress—Video for her performance in Disturbed. As of 2006 she was under an exclusive contract with the ethnic-oriented film company The Candy Shop. Devoe has a communications degree from the University of Hawaii.

Darla Crane (born May 21, Los Angeles, California) is an American pornographic actress and producer. Crane made her modeling debut in 1990, appearing in softcore bondage, tickling fetish and foot fetish videos, mostly for the companies Harmony Concepts and FM Concepts. She performed in several big-bust themed catfight and sensual wrestling videos for the company Napali Video. Crane has been featured in multiple periodicals, including Leg Show, Bondage Life, Skin Two, and DDI. After winning first-place fetishwear awards at "Fetish Ball III" (Los Angeles-1993) and "Fetish Ball IV" (Los Angeles-1994), Crane was asked to be the poster girl for "Fetish Ball V" (Los Angeles-1995). In 1996, Crane modeled for modern pin-up artist Olivia De Berardinis, who presented Crane with an original painting of herself adorned in a mermaid costume. Several trading cards and greeting cards feature Olivia's paintings of Crane. Crane has remained active both in front of, and behind the camera. In 1997, she accepted a position with Close-Up Entertainment, Inc. producing, directing, and editing bondage and discipline themed videos. She eventually became responsible for much of the company's advertising and

Jenna Haze (born February 22, 1982) is an American director, model and former pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 2001 at the age of 19. Between 2002 and 2005, she was a contract girl for the film company Jill Kelly Productions. During most of her time at the company, she performed exclusively with women, out of loyalty to her then boyfriend, an industry cameraman. She returned to working with men in the 2006 multi-award winning release Jenna Haze Darkside, produced by Jules Jordan. Haze has won numerous adult industry awards, including the 2003 AVN Award for Best New Starlet and the 2009 AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year. Haze was born in Fullerton, California and grew up mainly in La Habra, California, but also spent time in Lancaster, California and Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Haze grew up with divorced parents and two sisters and a brother, all much older than her. She is of Spanish, German and Irish descent. She received good grades in school, until about junior high school when she "discovered boys and sex". By age 15 she had dropped out of high school, had to receive homeschooling and found her first job. She had a series of low wage

Rebecca Lord (born February 16, 1973) is the stage name of a French pornographic actress who has been active since 1993. After moving to the U.S., she achieved popularity in the porn industry there. Originally from Paris, France, Lord attended parochial school while growing up, an experience she says led her to become a resolute atheist. As a young adult, she was a make-up artist, until 1993, when she answered a newspaper ad seeking a model for a pornographic movie directed by Patrice Cabanel. In her earliest movies, she appeared under the names "Rebecca Carre" and "Rebecca Bruns". In 1994, French director David Caroll gave her the stage name "Rebecca Lords" as a reference to Traci Lords. While listing her name in the credits, however, he mistakenly omitted the "S", and her name became "Rebecca Lord", which she has used ever since. In 1994, she was discovered by Swedish porn director Nic Cramer and appeared in two of his videos, Euro-max 2 and Euro-max 3. This introduced her to the American porn industry. She soon left France for Los Angeles and quickly established herself in the porn industry there. She has since appeared in over 200 porn movies (as of 2007). Lord has directed and

Roxy Jezel (born 5 June 1982 in London, England) is a former British pornographic actress. Jezel, whose father is Thai and mother is English, lived in East London. In an interview, she described where she lived as a "kind of ghetto". She has a BA in Philosophy with a specialization in ethics. In 2005 she won the XRCO Award for Orgasmic Oralist. On 28 July 2006, she became winner of the second season of the Jenna Jameson's Playboy TV show Jenna's American Sex Star. As the recipient of an exclusive contract with Club Jenna, Jezel became the company's first non-caucasian contract star. Jezel made a cameo appearance in the Season 3 finale of the HBO series Entourage. She retired from the adult industry in September 2009.

Gauge (born July 24, 1980 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.) is a retired American pornographic actress and a former stripper. Gauge entered the pornographic film industry in 1999, at the age of nineteen. Gauge was married on May 14, 2006 to a man named Jason, whom she divorced in December 2008. She was reported in July 2008 to be living in Arkansas on a 28-acre (110,000 m) lot and attending college.

Kaylynn (born September 26, 1977) is an American pornographic actress. Kaylynn was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Before working in the adult industry she worked a number of jobs, including those of a security guard, cashier, bagger and stripper. She made her debut in pornographic films in 1998 in the film More Dirty Debutantes 86. She was a host on the Playboy TV show Totally Busted.

Simon James Honey (born 23 May 1956 in Sittingbourne, Kent), better known as Ben Dover, is an English pornographic actor, director and producer. He has also worked under other pseudonyms including Lyndsay Honey and Steve Perry. Honey attended Borden Grammar School in his hometown of Sittingbourne in Kent. Following expulsion from school in 1973, he moved to Newquay where he got a job drumming in a cabaret band for the summer season and as a children's entertainer called "Uncle Simon". Having previously played with artists such as Edison Lighthouse, White Plains and Artful Dodger as a session drummer, Honey joined Ian Mitchell's post-Bay City Rollers band The Ian Mitchell Band in May 1979, who despite not finding success in the UK or US, released three studio albums and toured extensively across Europe and Asia. After moving from drums to keyboard and despite a minor UK hit with "Small Ads" in April 1981 and changing their name to La Rox, the band split up in 1982. Honey has also claimed to have worked as a male stripper using the stage name, "Hot Rod" (due to his apparent likeness to Rod Stewart at the time), a cabaret singer using the stage name "Steve Jackson", and as a

Randy Spears (born on June 18, 1961 in Kankakee, Illinois) is a well-known pornographic actor, having appeared in approximately 1000 features. Sometimes credited as Greg Ory or Greg Slavin. He has also directed pornographic movies. Spears was introduced to the industry in 1987 by Ona Zee, and soon thereafter married Danielle Rogers, who also was in the porn industry. Randy and Danielle have two children together. Randy and Danielle divorced in 2000. Spears was married to adult actress and Playboy model Demi Delia in 2006. Spears' first billing was as detective Hank Smith in The Case of the Sensuous Sinners, released in 1988. He later appeared in at least two gay-targeted videos including a masturbation scene in "Straight to Bed," and a male-on-male spanking scene in "Biker Boys Out of Control." Aside from the occasional inclusion of photospreads in a few gay magazines, the remainder of Spears' career has been in heterosexual porn. In 1990, Spears won the Adult Video News Best Actor Award for his performance in The Masseuse, with Hyapatia Lee. Spears also played Captain Jim Quirk in the highly successful "Sex Trek" series, which was a sex-parody of Star Trek. He has since been

Ashley Blue (born Oriana Small July 8, 1981) is an American pornographic actress. Ashley Blue has won multiple Adult Video News awards, including 2004 Female Performer of the Year and 2005 Best Supporting Actress. In March, 2004, she signed a three year contract with JM Productions, appearing in the Girlvert series. She ended the contract on February 14, 2007, and immediately entered a one-year commitment with LA Direct Models. She also does voice acting for the cartoon Three Thug Mice. She sued Trent Tesoro on an episode of Judge Mathis in 2003. Blue married photographer Dave Naz on July 30, 2009. After 2009 Blue has been less active within the adult film industry. She was featured in Inside the Porn Actors Studio: Ashley Blue (2006), an episode of Howard Stern's TV series Howard Stern on Demand. In 2011 Blue was portrayed by Swedish artist Karl Backman for the Museum of Porn in Art in Zurich. In 2008, Oriana finished writing her memoir of nearly ten years working in the adult entertainment industry (using her JM Productions moniker "Girlvert"). It was published by Los Angeles-based independent publisher A Barnacle Book & Record in Spring 2011. Ashley Blue on Twitter

Sinnamon Love is an African American pornographic actress, fetish model and glamour model. She was raised in Flint, Michigan, and attended both private and magnet schools. At age 16 she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she received her high school diploma a year early. She got married while at Santa Monica College, but later divorced, leaving her a single mother of two children. She has since had one more child. Love began performing in adult films in the early 1990s, and has since appeared in around 200 movies. She directed the movie My Black Ass 4, which received nominations at the 2001 AVN Awards for Best Ethnic-Themed Video and Best Anal Sex Scene (Video). Love was admitted into the Urban X Hall of Fame in 2009, and the AVN Hall of Fame in 2011. Love appeared on the Jerry Springer Show in 1995, and in 2003 she was on the cover of the first issue of the hip hop and pornography magazine Fish 'N Grits with hip hop star Redman. As of 2008 she was a cohost of Fetish at Night on PrimeTimeUncensored.com. She also appeared on The Tyra Banks Show. She has survived a bout with ovarian cancer, but lost an ovary and a fallopian tube. Her hobbies include cooking and board games. In

Cindy Crawford (born December 6, 1980) is an American pornographic actress, known for having the same name as the super model Cindy Crawford. The model disputed the use of the name but the pornographic actress was able to prove that it was her legal name.

Herschel Savage (born November 25, 1952) is an American pornographic actor and porn movie director. He was born Herschel Cohen to Russian Jewish parents in New York City. He studied acting under Broadway actress Uta Hagen and renowned acting teacher Stella Adler. Savage initially sought a mainstream stage and screen career, however became disillusioned by the constant auditioning and competition for roles. Savage was introduced to the adult film producer R. Bolla in the late 1970s. He then became one of the biggest stars of the "Golden Age of Porn" in the 1970s and 80's. He appeared in the 1978 classic Debbie Does Dallas, for which he was paid about $150 a day. Some of the other big films he appeared in include Expose Me Now, Bodies in Heat and Rambone Does Hollywood. He left porn in 1988 and worked in sales and video distribution, also playing a few roles in local theater productions. He then returned to the industry in 1997. Savage has also launched a fledgling career as a stand up comedian, and appears frequently on the reality TV series Family Business. He appeared as a guest during the fifth season of the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me, on an episode called The Proposal (2) which

Jasmine Byrne (born January 23, 1985) is an American pornographic actress, model and dominatrix. Byrne was born in Riverside, California to Mexican parents from Los Angeles. Her first film was Young Tight Latinas 6. She was nominated ten times for the AVN Award. Byrne is of indigenous Mexican and Native American descent. She is bisexual.

Cara Fawn (born July 18, 1978), also known by the stage name of Cheyenne Silver, is a former American pornographic actress. Born in San Clemente, California, she is of Native American (Cherokee, Choctaw), Franco-Irish heritage. Fawn danced under the stage name Wildcat, a name she also used when she initially transitioned to adult films. She has appeared in over 70 films, including No Man's Land, Fever, Secrets of the Flesh, Freshmen Fantasies, California Cocksuckers, The Wicked Temptress, Bloodrite, Pure Bliss, Third Date and This Girl's Life. She was under contract with Vivid Entertainment. Fawn has also appeared on The Howard Stern Show, The Man Show and Wild On! and Shipmates. She was Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month in December 2001. In 2004, she appeared in the mainstream movie, This Girl's Life. Cheyenne has been shooting more mainstream films and was able to get her SAG card. On December 12, 2005, she was involved in a serious car accident resulting in severe fractures across her skull, below the brain, and behind the eyes. Due to internal bleeding in the brain, she was airlifted to a trauma center in Englewood, Colorado. On the 13th, she had surgery to relieve the

Alisha Klass (born in Chino, California) is a former American pornographic actress. She began starring in pornographic movies in around 1997, specializing in anal sex and becoming the best known collaborator with director Seymore Butts, aka Adam Glasser, to whom she was once engaged. Klass had a tattoo on her rear reading "Seymore Butts." Tampa Tushy-Fest Part 1., a 1998 video featuring Klass in a lesbian fisting scene with Chloe, resulted in Glasser being charged with obscenity. Klass has worked as a host on the Playboy television show, Inside Adult, and wrote a column for Club Confidential magazine. She briefly hosted a radio talk show on 92.3 FM, The Beat in Los Angeles; the show aired on Friday nights and discussed topics of a sexual nature. She appeared briefly as a dancer in The Center of the World in 2001. She studied directing and screen writing at UCLA in 2001.

Jules Jordan (born Ashley Gasper) is an American pornographic movie director, actor and producer. Originally his movies were distributed by John Stagliano's adult video company, Evil Angel. In early 2006 his company Jules Jordan Video began handling its own distribution. His official website was launched in August 2007 by Premium Multimedia. Jordan is from Hershey, Pennsylvania, and got his start in the porn industry by working at a local porn video store called Excitement Video. He later started to film his own videos in the area, and later moved to Southern California. Jordan and John Stagliano have said that they treat copyright infringement with zero tolerance, and have filed multiple lawsuits against alleged pirates. In 2007 Jordan and Evil Angel were awarded US$17.5 million in a piracy case, an amount later reduced on appeal.

Bunny Bleu (born June 1, 1964) is an American pornographic actress. She was discovered by William Margold, and entered the porn business in 1983, initially working as a fluff girl. She later found work in films and worked alongside notables such as Traci Lords and Christy Canyon. For more than a decade until well into her twenties she was still cast as a teenager due to her youthful appearance. During the 80s she often played the role of a naive cheerleader, student or schoolgirl. In the mid-80s incest-themed film Unthinkable she played the sister of Scott Irish. Her hair was usually dyed blonde. She was known to be enthusiastic, but had trouble learning lines. After she starred in one of the first of Catalina Videos bisexual films, she had difficulty finding work in straight porn, as actors afraid of AIDS refused to work with her. Between 1983 and 1989 she performed in over 150 films. After leaving the industry in 1989 for three years she returned in 1992 after having breast enlargement surgery and changing her hair color to her natural auburn. After her comeback she performed in many anal sex scenes, which she had usually declined to do previously. She has commented that the

Christi Lake (born December 12, 1964) is an American former pornographic actress. She performed in about 200 movies between 1995 and 2004, and directed at least seven. Her scene with Ruby, Rocco Siffredi and John Stagliano in Buttman's Bend Over Babes IV shared the 1997 AVN Award for Best Group Sex Scene, Video. She has made television appearances in an episode of Six Feet Under, the documentary Bad Girl, and two episodes of the Howard Stern show.

Dale DaBone (born January 8, 1972) is an American pornographic actor, director, musician, stunt rider, spokesmodel, and late night raconteur He has appeared in 1500+ movies worldwide. He has drummed for bands such as Outland, Native Soul, Nailhole, Novacaine, 4pley and Gangbang. He has done stunts with Team No Limit and Adrenalincrew. He is currently a spokesperson for Raw-Nation and Hot Rawks. Born in Roanoke, Virginia, DaBone was mostly raised in North Carolina. He started in the adult film industry in 1998, when he began shooting for amateur productions. His performance in one of those films, Carolina Girls, was considered his breakthrough achievement by many, leading to his discovery by West Coast porn producers. Shortly after, he moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a professional career. DaBone's first appearance in a major pornographic film was in Taboo of Tarot, in 1999.

Fujiko Kano (born April 18, 1972, in Fukuoka, Japan) is a pornstar of Japanese descent. Kano started out working as a caddie in a women's golf club in Japan and stayed there for a year. She then found work in a strip club as a hostess and later as a stripper, but tiring of this, she started working in adult films after four years and was at the time 26. After being spotted by an adult director, she claims that she went to Soapland to be trained by a geisha to learn how to please both men and women (this story, however, is almost certainly apocryphal as modern Geisha are almost never involved in the sex industry and are also prohibitively expensive). She is very popular for her anal scenes. Kano states that she picked her stage name herself, as the Japanese words fujiko and kano mean "one of a kind" and "dream come true," respectively. In films she usually wears black lingerie. She recently starred in Danzig's heavy metal video Wicked Pussy Cat. She's also known for appearing for the women's pro wrestling organization, Women's Extreme Wrestling.

Jessica Drake (born October 14, 1974 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American pornographic actress. Drake spent much of her early life growing up around the state of Texas in different cities including San Antonio and El Paso. While majoring in psychology at a college in El Paso, Drake took a job as a house dancer at a local strip club. Through an agency, she later applied to be feature dancer at another club nearby, and here she met adult film director Michael Raven, who was photographing a contest. Raven and his wife Sydnee Steele gradually introduced her to the porn industry. Drake began by posing for magazines and appearing on Playboy TV, and was later taken to a film set, where she was the "condom and lube girl" for a scene starring Jill Kelly and Mark Davis. She is bisexual. In 1999, she made the decision to become an adult film actress and shot her first movie, which was directed by Raven. She signed a contract with the studio Sin City early in her career, but left the company after about a year and a half as "things did not work out." She gained her first AVN Award in 2001, winning "Best Tease Performance" for her role in VCA Pictures' Shayla's Web. In 2003, she signed an

Mr. Marcus (born September 4, 1970 in Pomona, California) is an American pornographic actor. He specializes in interracial pornography. In 2012, he was the central person in a syphilis infection scandal in California when several porn-performers were infected during video production. The investigation revealed that Mr Marcus was the first infected with syphilis and he provided incomplete (or fake) information to the producers in which he performed.

Chelsea Charms (born March 7, 1978) is the stage name of an American big-bust model, internet model, and stripper. Charms has appeared in adult magazines specializing in large breast models. During a television interview on the set of "This Morning", in May 2011, Charms told the hosts of the show that her bust size is currently "...164XXX, with each implant weighing 26 pounds." She has since reported that their continued growth has increased the weight of each breast to 30 pounds each as of summer 2012. She denies that the size of her breasts cause her any back pain, and states that she does exercises to strengthen her back. Charms has had breast augmentation surgery three times. The first augmentation enlarged her to an DD cup, the second to an HH. Both were saline bags. The third surgery implanted the polypropylene string, which has been since been abandoned as a common procedure in the United States and the European Union because of the potentially unlimited growth side effect, but has been used in breast enhancement surgery procedures in South America. More specifically, in some cases of breast augmentation via the polypropylene method, the breasts may grow at different paces

Lisa Lipps (born October 22, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is a pornographic actress and erotic dancer. She is known for her large breast implants, and has appeared in numerous big-bust videos and magazines. She received her first breast enhancement surgery at age 19. Lipps made appearances on The Jerry Springer Show in 1997 and on the Howard Stern television show in 1998. As of 2006 Lipps resided in Las Vegas, Nevada, and as of 2008 she was represented by the agency LA Direct Models.

Scott Nails (born April 29, 1982) is a pornographic actor and model from Arizona. His tattoo is the same tattoo that George Clooney's character had in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).

Buck "Backhand" Adams, born Charles Stephen Allen (November 15, 1955 – October 28, 2008) was a male American pornographic film actor and director. Adams was a professional boxer and bouncer before entering the pornographic film industry in the early 1980s, shortly after his sister Amber Lynn began her adult film career. He made his directorial debut with the 1988 movie Squirt. He performed in over 600 movies and directed about 80. Adams died on October 28, 2008 due to complications from heart failure. He died at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, with his daughter Christa, Amber Lynn and his close friend Harold Jenkins at his side. Adams had survived several heart attacks during the 1990s. Just before his death he built a studio where he intended to produce Internet videos.

Chloe (born Chloe Hoffman on November 14, 1971) is the stage name used by a veteran American adult film actress, nude model, script writer and director. Chloe was born in Thousand Oaks, California. She is of Italian and Irish descent and was raised Catholic. She has described herself as having been an over-imaginative child, with more imaginary friends than real ones. She practiced classical ballet for 10 years from age 6 into her teenage years and dreamed of becoming a professional ballerina. She quit at age 17 due to developing arthritis in her hips and to feeling exhausted. She says she lost her virginity aged 11 with her 15 year old boyfriend. In first grade, an accident had damaged her clitoris, describing it is "always hard but I don't feel anything". However, she is still able to orgasm through stimulation of her g-spot, which often involves inserting large, wide objects into her vagina, and she has stated "the deeper the better". She appeared in a controversial double-fisting scene with fellow porn actress Alisha Klass in Seymore Butts' video Tampa Tushy Fest 1. The film won the 'Best All-Girl Sex Scene – Video' award at the 2000 AVN Awards. When she was 17 she began using

Jaimee Monae Foxworth (born December 17, 1979) is an American actress who played the part of Judy Winslow, the youngest daughter, for four seasons on Family Matters. She later transitioned to pornographic films using the name Crave, starring in over 7 titles. Jaimee Foxworth began modeling at the age of five, soon appeared in national television advertisements, and ultimately landed the role of Judy Winslow, the youngest of the Winslow family's three children, on the long-running sitcom Family Matters. After the introduction of Steve Urkel (Jaleel White), Foxworth's scenes were reduced significantly. The combination of the character having little to do on the show, and Foxworth's request for a raise in salary, caused producers to simply write her off the series after its 4th season. The character disappeared without explanation. The Winslows act as though Judy never existed, acknowledging they only have two children: Eddie (Darius McCrary) and Laura (Kellie Shanygne Williams). With very little acting work coming in the years after Family Matters, Foxworth formed a short-lived musical group (named S.H.E.) with her two sisters. Eventually, she battled substance abuse (alcohol and

Carmen Luvana (born 23 August 1981 in New York City) is the stage name of a former American pornographic actress. Born in Brooklyn, New York on 23 August 1981, Luvana's family moved to Puerto Rico when she was five. She moved to Miami, Florida, at the age of 18 and got her start as a dancer in Miami strip clubs. Luvana entered the porn industry in 2001. Her first hardcore appearance was in More Dirty Debutantes #211. She was initially a contract girl with Digital Sin/New Sensations, but was afterwards with Adam & Eve Sex Toys sister company Adam & Eve Pictures. Luvana did not do anal sex on camera initially, saying that she would not do anything she was not comfortable with. After doing it in her private life and finding that she liked it, she proceeded to do it for the first time on film in the movie The Perfect Secretary. On 15 June 2006, Luvana won the Howard Stern Pornstar Beauty Pageant, beating Taylor Wane and Taryn Thomas for the crown. In late 2006, Carmen appeared in an advertisement of a fictional lingerie/clothing catalogue similar to Victoria's Secret called Foreplay in the movie Let's Go to Prison. In December 2007, Luvana announced that 2008 would be her last year

Jana Cova (born April 13, 1980), is a Czech pornographic actress and nude model of Polish descent. She is bisexual. Born in Vyškov, Cova grew up in the countryside in the Czech Republic where she "had a great childhood". She initially started working as a bikini model, then started doing nude and eventually softcore modeling. She has stated that part of her slow transition into movies was because "I wasn't ready for movies for about a year. I felt stupid in front of the camera." Cova has appeared in several pornographic movies (interacting exclusively with women for a long time) and high-profile men's magazines including Hustler, Penthouse, High Society, Perfect 10, Leg Show, Mayfair, Frenzy and Club International. She was the cover model and Penthouse Pet of April 2003. In April 2005, she signed an exclusive contract with the production company Digital Playground. Her first film as a contract girl was Porcelain, where she had two girl-girl scenes and two solo scenes. In October 2007, Cova left Digital Playground on amicable terms, saying that she wanted to move her career in a new direction.

Mike Horner (born February 3, 1955) is an American pornographic actor. He is sometimes credited as Don Hart (a play on 'Darn Hard'), Don Horner, "Dan Sir", or Johnny Wilson. Mike Horner began acting in small sex films, at the time referred to as loops (named after the style of their presentation, constantly looped 16 mm films shown in booths), in January 1978. His first feature movie was 1979's Tangerine. He has been in over 1500 feature (story-based) films and videos, and performed in over 500 additional all sex videos, with approximately 1800 actresses. He attended San Francisco State University, UCLA, and graduated from Sonoma State University. He pursued acting, theatre, and dance prior to his porn career, but became more involved after his exposure to adult films. Mike started out making only around $40–100 a movie. While only a sideline job at first, hardcore finally became Mike's primary income in 1983. He made the move to Southern California in 1991 to make porn his primary objective. He started directing movies in 1993, but found mixed success, as porn made the move to gonzo type movies, different from his artistic tastes. He has directed "Tangled" (1993, Pleasure Prod.),

Joanna Angel (born Joanna Mostov, December 25, 1980) is an American alternative pornographic actress, director and writer of adult films. She uses her real first name of Joanna for her stage name. Mostov was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Orthodox Jewish Israeli mother and an American father. She was raised in River Edge in Bergen County, New Jersey, where she attended Cherry Hill Elementary School and graduated from River Dell High School in 1998. After graduating at age 17 she enrolled in Rutgers University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature with a minor in Film Studies. She worked in a kosher fast food restaurant in Teaneck during high school, then at an Applebees and another restaurant called Happy's Health Grille, during college. After finishing her degree, she relocated to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, and created the website BurningAngel, a hardcore adult site catering to an emerging genre dubbed alt porn, while she danced as a stripper at night. Her website followed in the footsteps of the very popular SuicideGirls, which she has referred to as "the McDonald's of alt porn." When asked whether she thought that alt porn was

Leanni Lei (born June 6, 1974 in the Philippines) is an American pornographic actress. Leanni Lei was born in the Philippines, but her family moved to the United States when she was quite young. She grew up in Irvine, California, where she was a cheerleader and member of the honor society in high school. Her father was in the military and her mother worked as a restaurant manager. During her last year in high school, her parents divorced, and she became rebellious, smoking marijuana, and being expelled from the cheerleader squad. Lei went to college for a year and a half (including a semester at the University of California, Irvine), then quit to go into exotic dancing on the east coast to earn money. She moved to Connecticut in 1993. Lei became a pornographic actress partly due to her admiration for porn star Mimi Miyagi. Her first movie was filmed in October 1997 for Ed Powers, who was also Miyagi's first director. Lei returned to college, and continued living and going to college in Connecticut (majoring in finance with a minor in accounting), while appearing in pornography in California. After working for a year or so, she felt "burnt out" and quietly dropped out to rest and

Eve Laurence (born October 4, 1985 in Queen Anne, Maryland), is an American pornographic actress. She was nominated for a 2007 AVN award for Best Sex Scene Coupling for a Film.

Kat (born December 3, 1985) is the stage name of an American porn actress from Los Angeles, California. She entered the adult industry in 2003 at the age of around 18, and has since appeared in over 371 adult movies. Her first scene was with Marco Banderas. Although she is of Mexican ancestry and speaks Spanish in some of her movies, Kat is sometimes cast in Asian porn roles. Kat lost her anal virginity to Johnny Thrust in the 2004 Skeeter Kerkove film, Sensational Teens. Kat's favorite partners in the industry are Kurt Lockwood and Chanel Chavez. Kat wears braces which contribute to her youthful looks and has had an accident with them during fellatio. She thinks her best scenes include double penetrations but refuses to do double anal. Many of Kat's scenes feature squirting. Kat was nominated for the 2007 AVN Award for most outrageous sex scene in 2006 film The Great American Squirt Off.

Kostas Gousgounis (Gr: Κώστας Γκουσγκούνης) (born 1931 in Larissa, Greece) is a legendary figure of 1970s and 1980s Greek pornography. A few of his films were in the genre of hardcore pornography. Gousgounis (or Gouzgounis) is considered the foremost male figure of 1970s Greek pornography and the best known of 1980s along with Paulos Karanikolas. He has appeared in cult classics such as O Idonoblepsias (The Peeping Tom) and Sklavos (Slave). A retired pornographer for a long time, in 1996 he appeared in the award-winning Nikolas Triantafyllidis film Radio Moscow to be followed by The Overcoat (1997) and Mavro Gala (Black Milk, 2000). He has also made a guest appearance in the popular Greek comedy series Tis Elados Ta Pedia (Greece's Boys). Gousgounis was the honored person in the 3rd Festival of Cult Greek Cinema, which was on February 14, 2005. Gousgounis has starred in many movies during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. In Greek every-day language, Gousgounis is used as a euphemism for "a male who has lots of sex". He starred in Kazantzakis' Christ Recrucified a Greek TV series.

Sophie Evans (born 20 February 1976 in Szeged, Hungary) is a Hungarian pornographic actress. At the Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival, Evans won the jury award for Best Actress in 2001 and the audience award for Best Actress in 2003.

Sunrise Adams (born on September 14, 1982) is a former American pornographic actress, she was awarded multiple awards for her work in the industry after beginning her career in 2001. She was contracted by Vivid Entertainment a year later. Adams was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in rural East Texas. "I grew up in Pickton, Texas, population 90, with no phone, one TV channel and no one to play with for miles." At age 16, Adams enrolled at a nearby community college to complete her last two years of high school. Adams left Texas for Los Angeles, and began her career as a pornographic actress. On January 8, 2001, she appeared with Ed Powers in More Dirty Debutantes 186. She later referred to the experience of making that film as "nothing I want to remember". Adams became popular with fans, and signed a two year contract with Vivid Entertainment in August, 2002, officially becoming a "Vivid Girl". The contract required Adams to appear in eight movies per year for the company. In 2002, Vivid hired Adams to star in Debbie Does Dallas: The Revenge, with plans for her to star in future films in the series. Vivid representatives considered Adams to be appropriate for the role,

Tyler Faith (born April 3, 1975) is an American pornographic actress. She is bisexual. Tyler Faith has been an adult actress since 2002, working briefly for Pleasure Productions and then as a contract performer for Jill Kelly Productions where she appeared in over 100 scenes. Faith is the owner of Team Tyler Productions. In 2004, a student won the opportunity to take Faith to his high school prom in a contest on the Howard Stern Show. Weston High School officials forbade him from doing so as they determined that bringing a porn star as a date violated prom guidelines. Faith was one of the co-hosts of The Wanker Show on KSEX. In 2005 she was named Feature Dancer of the Year at the Nightmoves Entertainment Awards. Faith was briefly engaged to boxer Vinny "The Pazmanian Devil" Paz. They first met in 1996 at a strip club that she was dancing at in Las Vegas. The relationship ended because Paz was continuing to see other women.

Lilly Ann is an American erotic nude model and pornographic actress. Lilly Ann was born on August 15, 1983 in Miami, Florida, USA. She appeared in her first nude photo shoot in 2001, three days after she turned 18. Lilly Ann has appeared in pornographic magazines and videos, and on pornographic websites. Early in her pornographic career, Lilly Ann performed in hardcore pornography. Later, she performed predominantly in solo (i.e. masturbation) and lesbian scenes. Lilly Ann was Penthouse Pet of the Month in March 2003. Lilly Ann has appeared in pornographic magazines such as Hustler, Barely Legal, and Club (magazine). She has a tattoo of a female demon on her back, near her left shoulder.

Ignacio Jordà González, aka Nacho Vidal (born 30 December 1973), is a Spanish pornographic actor, director, producer, writer, and camera operator. Born in Mataró, Province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, Vidal moved with his family to Valencia at a very young age, where part of his family originated. His family was wealthy, but ended up losing all their money in the 1987 stock market crash. His nickname, Nacho, is the common nickname for Ignacio. At age 14, Vidal quit school to start working to help his family. As a young teenager, he used to have a punk band. He also was a boxer and enlisted in the Spanish Legion in Melilla. Later, he started working at the age of 21 in the live porn club Bagdad of Barcelona, where he performed live sexual acts in front of an audience with his girlfriend "Jazmine". There, he met the director of the Erotic Film Festival of Barcelona José María Ponce, who introduced him into the world of porn movies. On May 31, 2005, Vidal announced his retirement from pornography and married Colombian model and porn star Franceska Jaimes. They moved to a mansion previously owned by his family, located in the small town of Enguera, in Valencia, recovering it after

Steven St. Croix (b. 1968, Los Angeles, California) is a pornographic actor and director. He has been in more than 600 films, and has won multiple AVN awards. He was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2005. In 1996, St. Croix became the first man to sign a contract with one of the adult industry's largest video production companies, Vivid Video. Shortly thereafter he generated notable media attention when Vivid president Steven Hirsch took out a one million dollar insurance policy on St. Croix's genitalia, citing concerns for a potential motorcycle injury as the cause.

Asia Carrera (born August 6, 1973) is an American former pornographic actress. Asia Carrera was born in New York City to a Japanese father and German mother, the eldest of four siblings. She was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey, attending the Little Silver School District and Red Bank Regional High School. She studied piano as a child, and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. By 16 she taught English at Tsuruga College in Japan. She won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa, with an IQ of 156. Carrera's adult film career ran from 1993 to 2003 and included over 250 films and video features. According to interviews, she chose her stage name surname from actress Tia Carrere, changing the spelling for legal reasons. In 1998, she appeared in an uncredited cameo role in the film The Big Lebowski in the faux pornographic movie Logjammin' within the film. Carrera was a guest reviewer for Maximum PC magazine. Carrera lent her voice to several erotic hentai OVAs for publisher Pink Pineapple, such as Inmu (2001) and Shusaku (1999). In October 2001, Carrera attended the Big Apple Anime Fest in New York City for her voice roles and along

Kayla Kleevage (born April 20, 1965) is a stripper and pornographic actress in the big-bust genre. Kayla has had her website since 1996 and also runs her own video company, Kleevco Productions. Kleevco has produced a three-volume series called Hot Chocolate. She is also a former contract performer with the studio Video Exclusives. Kayla appeared nude in the 2007 mainstream Ben Stiller film The Heartbreak Kid. She also made a cameo appearance as "Phat Tittie Kittie" alongside fellow big-bust performer BB Gunns in the Detroit-based rap group Insane Clown Posse's comedy film Big Money Hustlas in 2000. She has also made cameo appearances in talk shows such as The Jerry Springer Show, Sally Jessy Raphael, and The Jenny Jones Show.

Nikita Denise (born July 25, 1976 in Czechoslovakia) is a Czech pornographic actress and adult film director. Denise moved from her native Czech Republic to Toronto in 1998 and began working on the Canadian strip club circuit. After meeting Jill Kelly at a local signing, she was given the phone number for Jim South. Her first scene was with Dillon Day in North Pole 13 in 2000. In 2006, Denise made her directorial debut with the film Nikita's Extreme Idols. She also appeared in the film after taking over a year off from porn. On July 24, 2006 Denise appeared on Inside the Porn Actor's Studio hosted by Richard Christy, a parody version of Inside the Actor's Studio. She also appeared on the August 15, 2002 episode of Howard Stern. Denise has been featured in over 400 movies, and has won several adult industry awards including the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2002.

Robin Byrd (born 6 April 1957 in New York City, New York) is an American former porn actress and the host of The Robin Byrd Show, which has appeared on Leased access cable television in New York City for close to thirty years. Byrd was adopted and raised in New York City. She has never been able to identify her birth parents, due to the unwillingness of her adoptive mother to reveal that information and sealed birth and adoption records under New York state law. At the time of filming the porn classic Debbie Does Dallas, Byrd was living in New York, and was still known as Robin Cohen. After taking college classes in marketing and advertising at Baruch College and dropping out as a senior, she attended the School of Visual Arts and worked as a nude model for art classes. Her TV career was launched on cable TV with the Hot Legs Show. She subsequently starred in porn films during the late 1970s, including a role in the above-mentioned Debbie Does Dallas. After guest-hosting on a leased access show called Hot Leggs, she changed the name to The Robin Byrd Show in 1977. The show has aired continuously since then, though it now shows reruns rather than live episodes. Each episode features

Tera Heart is an American pornographic actress. 1990 saw Heart's initial foray into the porn business; however she retired after making only a few videos. She returned to the business in 1994. "Tera's acting ability earned her a starring role in Wicked Pictures' big 1994 release Western Nights. The feature was nominated for a total of six 1995 AVN awards." 1995 was a prominent year for her in the industry. It culminated with Heart co-hosting the AVN Awards with Dyanna Lauren and Steven St. Croix. "Her acting talents were also noted by veteran director Michael Zen, who slated a spot for her in Blue Movie, which won him awards including Best Director and Best Film honors at the 1996 AVN Awards." Heart has made two appearances at the Tampa Show. From Tera Heart herself, "I am not dead, I have never married Dyanna Laurens ex husband or Brad Armstrong... I am currently residing in Tampa, FL. I have been retired from the adult movies since 1996 and the dance circuit since 2000. Since the Adult business I have attended Travel, Medical, and Law school. I earned my degree in Criminal Justice in 2005. I was in a major car accident in 2004 that left me with a cage and plate in my neck so I

Ed Powers (born Mark Krinsky; October 25, 1954) is an American director, producer and actor of hardcore pornographic films. He owns his own production company, Ed Powers Productions. Powers was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his Dirty Debutantes series, which features amateur female performers, many never having acted in porn before, performing masturbation, sex with male performers, and occasionally lesbian scenes. The Dirty Debutantes series has introduced many new actresses like Nadia Nyce and helped those already in the business get noticed. Jamie Gillis was initially a co-producer on the series. Marylin Star's first film was More Dirty Debutantes 30, released in 1994. Leanni Lei's first movie was in 1997 for Powers. She had been inspired to become a pornstar after watching a film starring Mimi Miyagi, who also made her debut with Powers. Aurora Snow's first film was More Dirty Debutantes 152. He filmed the debut of Lacey Duvalle in More Black Dirty Debutantes 27, as well as twice filming scenes with former Family Matters child star Jaimee Foxworth (as Crave). In 2001 Sunrise Adams made her debut in More Dirty Debutantes 186. She later referred to the

Ashlyn Gere (born September 14, 1959) is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress who performed in both heterosexual and lesbian films. She is also an actress in mainstream film and television. In the 1980s she was an actress in several B-movies: For example, 1987's Creepozoids, in which she plays the character "Kate" and is billed as Kim McKamy. She acted under the name Kimberly Patton in the television series Space: Above and Beyond from 1995 to 1996; she also appeared under that name in episodes of Silk Stalkings and Millennium. She has also appeared under the Patton name in the films The One and Willard, and was credited as Kimberly Ashlyn Gere for an appearance on The X-Files. She began acting in pornographic films in around 1990, while continuing her bit-part career in mainstream acting. AVN F.O.X.E XRCO

Ava Devine is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. Hannah Harper called Devine the "lady of the lake" of porn, in that she embodies the myth of the promiscuous woman willing to have sex with anyone at any time. In 2005, Ava had what she called "malpractice surgery" which put a hold on her film career. In October 2005, she underwent breast reduction surgery and had a lift, reducing her bust to 36DD. She resumed working in January 2006 with plans to continue.

Evan Stone (born July 18, 1964) is an American pornographic actor. In 2002 he married Jessica Drake, whom he has since divorced. Stone's occasional work outside the pornography industry includes his role as "Jimmy" in the 2007 original series The Lair. Stone was also briefly shown on a television screen in the South Park episode "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers". In February 2005, Stone hosted cable television program Spice Hotel on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings on Spice Live, which focused on porn star couples. He replaced founding host Julian. A short clip of an Evan Stone film was broadcast to some Comcast cable subscribers in Tucson, Arizona during the Super Bowl on February 1, 2009. The game was interrupted by a 30-second clip of Stone and Tristan Kingsley, as she pulled his penis out of his pants. In 2011, he was named by CNBC as one of the 12 most popular stars in porn, being the only man on the list. Stone, along with Lee Stone, performed graphic sex scenes with former TNA and WWE wrestling superstar Chyna in the Vivid release Backdoor to Chyna, released in 2011. Stone currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Jenaveve Jolie (born June 4, 1984) is an American pornographic actress, nude model and exotic dancer. She is also known as Jenaveve Joli or Jenevieve. She is of Mexican origin with some Aztec ancestry. She worked as a waitress at a steak house before beginning her adult film career in 2004. She has been in over 300 adult titles, including the award winning Pirates, but also featured in the mainstream movie Bulletface (2010). Jolie posed as Sarah Palin for the February 2009 issue of High Society. In 2009 she appeared on the TV program Entourage.

Luc Wylder (born November 17, 1958 in New Jersey) is Roman Catholic of Irish and French heritage, an American producer, director, digital cinematographer, pornographic actor and webmaster. Wylder also owns and operates Fallen Angel Video. Wylder began making underground fetish films in the late 1980s. His first release was titled “Backlash”, which lead to a booming career, including box cover appearances featuring Master Luc Wylder. Wylder began directing, producing and performing for some of the top adult film companies including Fallen Angel, Adam and Eve, Hustler, Sin City, and Bizarre. Referred to as the thinking man’s porn producer, Luc was heavily influenced by director Bruce Seven’s style. Wylder's stylistic approach combined fetishism, top notch talent, and well-executed scenes, styles which he is known for. The fetish industry’s premier male dominant, Wylder appeared in hundreds of videos, during the 1990s working for Bizarre, Starmaker, and Gotham Gold. Wylder went on to produce the world’s first reality based adult stripper series The Dirty Dancers. He also went on to produce the award winning creampie series called Internal Affairs, featuring real life couples having

Marina Hedman Bellis, also known as Marina Frajese, Marina Lotar and Marina Lothar (September 29, 1944 in Göteborg, Sweden) is a Swedish retired pornographic and mainstream actress. Hedman, who previously was a well-known model, arrived in Italy as wife of an Italian journalist, Paolo Frajese, who in 1965 had gone to Sweden for a number of television reports. In 1976 she made her film debut with a small uncredited role in Lucio Fulci's sex comedy La pretora (My Sister In Law), starring Edwige Fenech. Later in 1976, she played a minor role in Emanuelle in America, appearing in her first hardcore scene. Then Hedman also appeared in the RAI show Carosello and posed for the Italian issue of Playboy Magazine. In 1979 she played a major role in Joe D'Amato's Immagini di un convento ("Images in a Convent"), an adaptation of La Religieuse. Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hedman had supporting roles in mainstream films such as Primo Amore (1978) for Dino Risi and La città delle donne (City of Women) (1980) for Federico Fellini, as well as leading roles in pornographic cinema, in which she was considered one of the first Italian divas. 1984 and 1985 were prolific years for her,

Monique Alexander (born May 26, 1982) is an American pornographic actress and nude model. Alexander is bisexual. Alexander began working in the adult industry as a stripper in Sacramento when she was 18, to supplement her daytime earnings as a receptionist. She appeared in several adult magazines with her first photo shoot being with Earl Miller. She started performing in adult films in 2001 beginning with a girl-girl scene in Hot Showers Number 2 and becoming a contract girl for Sin City in that year. In addition to a catalog of solely girl-girl hardcore work, she appeared in a handful of softcore erotic films produced by HBO and Cinemax such as Hotel Erotica, The Sex Spa, Sex House, and Voyeur: Inside Out. She also became a solo and girl-girl internet nude model. Alexander appeared in a mainstream film titled Spider's Web with Stephen Baldwin and Kari Wührer in 2002. Alexander has also done foot-fetish videos for FM Concepts. Alexander was a contract girl for Vivid Entertainment from 2004 to 2009. After years of appearing only in girl-girl scenes, she began appearing in boy-girl scenes in 2005, including an interactive DVD and a feature role with Rocco Siffredi in Vivid's Lexie

Rita Faltoyano (born on August 5, 1978 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian pornographic actress. She grew up on a farm near Budapest with her godparents. It was there that she learned to ride horses and eventually began riding at competition level. In addition to being a champion equestrian she is also a gymnast and swimmer. Prior to working in adult films, Faltoyano was a student. She has said her mother was Miss Hungary 1974 and her father was a former European and Olympic Champion in water polo. Her parents started entering her into beauty pageants at age 16. Her first movie was with Pierre Woodman in No Sun, No Fun; her first scene she performed was with three men where she did her first ever anal and double penetration. In 2004, Faltoyano, along with a number of other adult performers, was expelled from Mexico. They had been visiting for the first Festival Erótico de México but were charged by immigration authorities with performing in a profit-making event despite being there on tourist visas. One-time she was in relationship with pornographic actor Ramon Nomar.

Aja is an American exotic dancer, pornographic actress and adult film director. Aja starred in director John Leslie's Adult Video News' Best Video of the Year award-winning Mad Love (1988) in a scene described as "notably [...] surreal" by author and Ohio University Telecommunications graduate studies director Joseph W. Slade. AVN later declared the film one of the 500 best of all time, also describing Aja's scene as "strange"; she starred in two others among their 500 best, Alex deRenzy's Ghostess with the Mostess and Paul Thomas' The Naked Stranger, all in her first year as a performer, winning AVN's "Best New Starlet" in 1989. In 1990, she starred in director Sharon Kane's Stairway to Paradise, a film which was the subject of a study by University of California, Los Angeles professor of psychiatry and human sexual relations specialist Robert Stoller. In casting the film, writer Jim Holliday "wanted Aja in the worst way and Sharon agreed. Aja is very box-officeable." On September 16, 1992 she was one of four porn stars participating in the Porn-AM Golf Tournament in Denver, Colorado organized by J.R. Wolfe as a benefit for the Adult Film and Video Association of America's

Crystal Knight (born December 31, 1973) is an American erotic actress and exotic dancer of Cuban and Dominican heritage. She is sometimes credited as Crystal K. She is bisexual. Crystal Knight started her career in 1994, mainly doing lesbian scenes. Soon after her debut, she became pregnant but continued to act. Movies such as Ready To Drop 5 capitalized on her burgeoning belly. After giving birth to a daughter, she took a break from the adult industry. In late 1996, she returned with enlarged breasts. In 1999, Knight became the host of Playboy television's Night Calls 411. She has also appeared in many music videos for rap artists, such as Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Fat Joe and R. Kelly.

Dasha or Dascha, born 1976 in Brno, Czechoslovakia (present Czech Republic), is a Czech pornographic actress. She is known for her female ejaculation and anal sex scenes. She usually refrains from facials. Dasha was a synchronized swimmer and competitive dancer in the Czech Republic before moving to the United States in 1996, to run away after finding her boyfriend with another woman. In 1999, Dasha entered pornographic movies for Vivid Video, where her first film was Broken English. In 2000, Dasha appeared in music videos for Madonna ("Music") and Deftones ("Change (In the House of Flies)" and the White Pony EPK). She also appeared on the cover of Brougham's CD "Murked Out". Along with Kira Kener and Tera Patrick, Dasha posed for the cover of Playboy magazine's March 2002 issue as well as a "Sizzling Porn Star" pictorial. Dasha is divorced from Jonathan Foster (aka Dillon Day), with whom married in 2000. They had met on the set of the pornographic films Highway 1 and Highway 2. Each continued to perform with other people in films.

Heather Keisha Hunter (born October 1, 1969 in the Bronx, New York) (nicknamed Double H) is a former pornographic actress, who is now a rap artist, photographer, painter, and author. Heather Hunter entered the adult film business in 1988 and her career peaked in the mid-'90s. She became known for her interracial- and lesbian-themed films. In her hometown she was a mainstay on the Robin Byrd Show and was a frequent performer. For a period of time, during her Los Angeles years, Hunter was a dancer on the TV show Soul Train. She got her start while dancing at the Latin Quarter in New York City, where she met adult film actress Hyapatia Lee, who suggested she perform in movies. Her first video, Heather Hunter On Fire, came out in 1988. She did a few low-budget movies for New York-based Vidway before moving to Los Angeles and eventually becoming the first African-American woman to be a Vivid Entertainment contract girl. She has 69 videos and 1 directorial effort to her credit on the Internet Adult Film Database; her final adult video appears to be Honeywood, released in 1999. Old scenes with Hunter continue to be released in numerous compilations. Hunter was inducted into the AVN Hall

Kayden Kross (born September 15, 1985) is an American pornographic actress and writer. Kross has won multiple awards for her adult film work. Kross was born and raised in Sacramento, California. She has described herself as "the book nerd" during her time as a high school student. For the purpose of earning extra money to purchase a pony, Kross began stripping at Rick's Showgirls in Rancho Cordova, California, when she was eighteen years old. She was later contacted by an agent, and it was this business relationship that provided Kross with the opportunity to commence modeling in adult magazines. Kross was a senior at California State University, Sacramento, when she signed an exclusive performing contract with Vivid Video in November 2006. Her movies with Vivid included Kayden's First Time, Hard Time, and Be Here Now. Unhappy with the company, she became a free agent one year later, when she did not renew her contract. After one month of being a free agent, she signed an exclusive contract with Adam & Eve. Kross has appeared in several episodes of The Block, a reality snowboarding show that aired on G4TV, in which the Vivid Girls went to The Block hotel for a photo shoot. She also

Kiki Daire (born September 18, 1976) is the stage name of an exotic dancer and pornographic actress. She is also commonly known as Kiki D'Aire. Daire was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She began appearing in adult films while also working as a stripper. Her first scene was in the 1998 film Lesbian Virgins 4. D'Aire has breast implants. In 2006, Daire took a hiatus to get married (although it did not happen). She lived in New Orleans in the meantime and attended college. In 2008, Daire decided to return to the industry with smaller implants going from a 38F to a 36D, but ultimately didn't shoot any new material before bowing out of the spotlight again. She resurfaced in the summer of 2011 ready to finally begin her comeback by signing with OC Modeling.

Kyle Stone (born on October 18, 1963) is a pornographic actor (porn star). In 2007 he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame after 14 years in the porn industry. He often plays as the funny guy or as the older male in porn films. Stone worked at a Los Angeles law firm prior to entering the adult film business. He had met up with a porn star by the name of Natasha after a wrong phone number call became a session of phone sex. The two of them met several weeks later and had sex; afterwards she asked him if he had ever thought of a career in porn. His first scene was for Rodney Moore; Natasha was his first on-screen partner. For the next three years Stone would work days at the law firm, and would moonlight in porn. In time the secretaries at the firm discovered his sideline; they would have lunches at the nearby home of one of the secretaries while they watched the "KF Show". This would become a source of gossip within the firm and in time, the attorneys found cause to fire Stone.

Nina Hartley (born Marie Louise Hartman; March 11, 1959) is an American pornographic actress, pornographic film director, sex educator, feminist, and author. Hartley was born in Berkeley, California to a Lutheran father and a Jewish mother whose family was from Alabama. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the youngest of four children, with an older sister and two older brothers. Her parents converted to Buddhism when she was young. After graduating from high school in 1977, she attended San Francisco State University's undergraduate nursing school and graduated magna cum laude in 1985. She is a registered nurse. In 1982, during her sophomore year of nursing school, she started working as a stripper at Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater. She made her foray into the world of pornographic movies during her junior year, in 1984. Her debut performance was in the film Educating Nina, which was produced and directed by the veteran porn star Juliet Anderson (better known as "Aunt Peg"), and this proved to be a massive hit. She stated in an interview that she chose the name "Nina" because it was easy for Japanese tourists to say during the time she was a dancer in San

Tom Byron (born Thomas Bryan Taliaferro, Jr. April 4, 1961 in Houston, Texas) is an American pornographic actor and director. He is of Italian descent and is an alumnus of the University of Houston. He has also been credited as Tom Byrom, Tim Byron, Tom Bryon, Tom Bryan, and Tommy Byron. A member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame, Byron was also voted #20 in AVN's top 50 pornstars of all time. Byron first started acting in hardcore films in May 1982, and continued to perform mostly in roles portraying the young schoolboy or "coming of age" scenarios, as he resembled a teenager even though he was in his early to mid 20s. He starred alongside the underage Traci Lords in many films including her porn debut in early 1984, What Gets Me Hot!. He was also said to have had an ongoing off-screen relationship with Lords, though he later downplayed their relationship. He has changed his image several times throughout his career, going from clean-shaven adolescent to a hard rocker look. Later in his career, he took on the appearance of a clean cut "businessman". His late 1980s long-haired hard rock persona was no pretense, as Byron was at that time moonlighting as a struggling hard rock

Vanessa del Rio (b. March 31, 1952) is a retired American pornographic actress. Vanessa del Rio was born Ana Maria Sanchez and raised in Harlem, New York, the daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Her mom would take her to see movies of Isabel Sarli whom Vanessa credits as a big influence in her life. She left a job as a computer programmer in her early 20s and became "a waitress, then barmaid, then go-go dancer" becoming a porn actress because "they paid $150 a day, which was exactly my half of the rent". Del Rio began appearing in adult films in 1974. In the span of about 25 years, del Rio has appeared in over 100 pornographic films and in several music videos, notably "Get Money" by Junior M.A.F.I.A. Though del Rio retired from adult films in 1986, in part due to the AIDS scare prevalent at the time, she returned shortly thereafter, and continued her porn career until 1999. Afterwards, she remains somewhat active in the adult entertainment industry through her Web site and by making special appearances at award shows and conventions. During and after her porn career, she appeared on many TV shows as herself, including a 1996 episode of NYPD Blue. In 2007, the German

Annabel Chong, is a former pornographic actress. On January 19, 1995, at the age of 22, she became famous by engaging in 251 sex acts with about 70 men over a ten-hour period, with the resulting footage being promoted as The World's Biggest Gang Bang. The film was commercially successful and started a trend of "record-breaking" gang bang pornography. Chong was also the subject of the documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story. Chong was born Grace Quek (Chinese: 郭盈恩; pinyin: Guō Yíng'ēn), and raised in Singapore in a middle-class Protestant Singaporean Chinese family. She was a student at Raffles Girls' School, where she was enlisted in the country's Gifted Education Programme, and Hwa Chong Junior College. Former teachers and classmates describe Chong as quiet, intelligent, and studious. After taking her A levels, she took nearly three years off, including a year spent in the United States. She then went on to study law at King's College London under a scholarship. While in the United Kingdom, Chong got drunk on a train, where she met a man and agreed to have sex with him in an alleyway. He brought along other men, and she was gang raped and robbed in a rubbish closet under an

Kimberly Chambers (born January 11, 1974 in Fullerton, California) is an American pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 1993 at the age of around 19, and has since appeared in over 200 films. She has also directed at least three films. In 2002, she appeared with her then-husband, Scott Styles,from a 1998 marriage lasting six years, and Ron Jeremy in an infomercial for a male enhancement product called ExtenZe.

Ryan Conner (born February 12, 1971 in Santa Ana, California) is a pornographic actress.

Brandon Iron (born Brendan Hurdle on July 14, 1968 in Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian pornographic actor and director. Iron's first film was with Ashley Nicole in Bonfire of the Panties in 1991, however he did not start performing on a full-time basis until 1997. Iron is the creator of two rough sex video franchises, Slap Happy and I Love it Rough. Iron directed several films for Platinum X Pictures, a sister-studio of Red Light District Video. His line of gonzo porn films include Baker's Dozen, Intensities in 10 Cities, A Good Source of Iron, I Love it Rough, Photographic Mammaries, Ten Little Piggies and 50 to 1. In some of his older work, he is credited as "Brandon Irons" or "Alek James Hidell". The latter name was an alias of Lee Harvey Oswald, to whom Iron bears a resemblance. Since November 2007 Brandon Iron Productions films have been distributed by JM Productions. Iron co-owns Ironwood Productions with fellow performer Mark Wood. Slap Happy is a rough sex series, created and directed by Iron and distributed by Extreme Associates. The scenes are filmed in a gonzo style and feature male dominance. Iron is the sole male performer in all scenes. Each scene features Iron with

Anita Dark is a Hungarian pornographic actress. Her adult film career began in 1995, with the Italian film Pretty Girl. In 1997 she moved to the United States and continued to perform in various roles. In 1999 she retired from the industry, but returned in 2003, announcing that she would only perform solo or with other women.

Brooke Ashley (born Anne Marie Ballowe, 5 May 1973 in Daegu, South Korea) is the stage name of a pornographic film actress. Ashley left the industry after finding out on 29 March 1998 that she was HIV positive. She contends that she was infected by Marc Wallice on the set of a film called The World's Biggest Anal Gangbang in which she set a then-world record for having anal sex with the most partners at one time (50 people). On 22 March 1998 she appeared in an episode of MTV's True Life documentary about the porn industry. On 20 July 2005, Ashley returned to the adult industry in Dirty Debutantes 328, directed by Ed Powers. She was filmed having sex with her boyfriend Eddie Wood, who is also HIV positive.

Charlie Laine (born January 31, 1984) is an American pornographic actress and adult model originally from Marion, Wisconsin. Laine dropped out of high school at age 17. She started in the adult industry at age 18 in November 2002. She had moved to Florida and modeled there before moving back to Wisconsin. She posted a profile on a modeling website and an agent contacted her to offer magazine work with Hustler, Penthouse, and Cheri. Although a natural brunette, in some of her work her hair is dyed red. She does not feel comfortable working with men. Laine has stated that she is bisexual, but prefers to date men and has a boyfriend. Her favorite women to work with are Renee Perez, Celeste Star, and Jenna Haze. In 2005, she signed a one-year non-exclusive contract with Metro Studios and Astrux Entertainment. She was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for February 2006. In 2006, she appeared on The Howard Stern Show. In 2007, Laine performed in some more mainstream productions. She was the co-host for the internet talk show Almost Live with Gary Garver. She also appeared in an episode of Fat Guy Nation produced by National Lampoon.com. Laine made her second appearance on the Howard Stern

Chloe Dior (born March 28, 1978 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American pornographic actress. She began appearing in adult films in around 2001 while at the age of about 23, and has since appeared in over 200 movies.

Cytherea (born September 27, 1981) is an American pornographic actress and model. She is known for her "squirting" while performing sex acts. She is bisexual. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Cytherea is named after the Greek goddess of love, beauty, and music. She originally had a Yahoo! fan group when she was recruited by an agent into the adult industry. Her career started in 2003 and she has performed in over 300 movies. Her first scene was with Tyce Bune for I've Never Done That Before. Elegant Angel produced a series of movies featuring her dubbed as Squirtwoman. Cytherea formed a production company called Cytherea Productions in 2004 and won the Starlet Award from AVN in 2005. She has appeared on cable television shows, most notably the HBO/Cinemax series Sex Games: Vegas, Playboy TV's Night Calls and has been a guest on the Tom Leykis Show and The Howard Stern Show. Cytherea also hosted an industry talk and interview radio show on KSEX in Los Angeles, California called Goddess of Gush. According to her website, the show was cancelled in 2006. Cytherea performed her first anal scene in the movie Cytherea's Anal Whores in 2006.

Francesca Le (born December 28, 1970) is an American pornographic actress and director. Le started in the adult industry in 1990 and retired from performing around 1994. She worked in sales at Extreme Associates where she met her future husband, Mark Wood. She returned to performing in 2000 and started a pornographic production outlet, LeWood with her husband in 2002. She has starred in over 400 productions, with over 100 films to her credit as director. In 2011, she also made a small ironic cameo appearance in Norwegian Hardstyle producers Da Tweekaz song and music video "P.A.P (People against Porn)" for the record label Dirty Workz.

Harry Reems (born August 27, 1947) is the stage name of one of the most active and popular pornographic actors of the 1970s and star of the 1972 cult classic, Deep Throat. Reems was born Herbert Streicher. Reems served briefly in the United States Marine Corps, receiving an honorable discharge following hardship leave, before electing to pursue an acting career, principally in off-Broadway theater. Looking for ways to support himself, Streicher began to appear in dozens of short, silent stag films, often referred to as "loops," during the early 1970s. He eventually went on to appear in approximately 140 feature-length sexploitation and hardcore films between 1971 and 1989, with Deep Throat (1972) and The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) being the best known, as well as grindhouse roughies like Forced Entry (1973) and Sex Wish (1976). In the former, he plays a sadistic Vietnam veteran hellbent on rape and murder; while the latter has him as a husband turned vigilante to seek revenge over the rape and murder of his wife. In 1975, he published a memoir, Here Comes Harry Reems, in which he details the early years of his experience as an adult film actor. He had sex (in hardcore pornographic

Justine Joli (born July 16, 1980) is the stage name of an American adult model and pornographic actress. Joli grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, splitting her summers between a farm in Hannibal, Missouri and Crested Butte, Colorado. She did ballet from age 3 to age 15. Justine revealed on the Howard Stern Show and the Fox News program Geraldo at Large that she was molested from age 3 to 10 by three men, one of whom was her grandmother's ex-husband. Two of the three men were prosecuted and incarcerated. Justine has been in therapy since the age of 13. In her late teens, she moved to the Los Angeles area with her mother. In 2000, Joli was working in the Glendale Galleria when she was noticed by porn director Kris Kramski and asked if she was interested in doing some modeling. Joli claims that Kramski's ulterior motive was to get her into a threesome with him and his girlfriend, but that she was only interested in the girlfriend and not him. Joli did not end up working with Kramski, but Kramski did pass her audition photos along to adult industry talent scout Roy Garcia, who promptly found work for her in adult modeling and films. Her first shoot was with Stephen Hicks. Joli notes that

Max Hardcore (born Paul F. Little on August 10, 1956 in Racine, Wisconsin) is a male pornographic actor, producer and director - and convicted federal felon - who rose to prominence in 1992 with the film series Anal Adventures of Max Hardcore. His work has been classified as gonzo pornography and described as "testing the limits of acceptability". His company, Max World Entertainment, was headquartered in Altadena, California. Max "Two Cups" Hardcore's films generally consist of sexual acts executed by himself, with women who act like underage girls or their upset mothers, with an emphasis on anal sex. All of the actresses used in Little's movies are over the legal age of 18; however, they frequently dress and act in a way as to suggest that they are younger, possibly under the age of consent. In his film Max Extreme 4, an actress, Regan Star, stated during one verbal exchange that she was 12 years old; similarly, in his film Max Extreme Schoolgirls 6, actress Mya Mason stated during one verbal exchange that she was 12 years old. The sexual situations depicted in Max Hardcore's films frequently include acts such as urinating on his female co-stars, fisting them, or inserting

Alana Evans (born July 6, 1976 in Fort Campbell, Kentucky) is an American pornographic actress. She is sometimes credited as Jenna Talia (a pun on genitalia -- she hated the alias so much that she changed back to "Alana Evans" after two films). Evans and her husband became part owners of their favorite club, which is where she says she lost her remaining inhibitions. She became a stripper and pole dancer and began considering modelling work. Due to a scar from an appendectomy she thought that she would not get magazine work, and therefore went into the porn industry as a result at age 21. Her first scene was in Real Sex Magazine 11. To date Evans has starred in over 200 films, including numerous Playboy TV projects and 30 softcore movies. She also hosted a segment on KSEX radio called All in the Porn Family until June 2005 as well as hosting a show for Playboy Radio called Private Calls, which airs on the Sirius Satellite Radio Network. Never fully satisfied with her bust size, Evans vacillated between the idea of surgical enhancement and accepting her image as a natural starlet. At one point she declared "they are going to stay real... I don't want plastic in my body."

Courtney Cummz (born December 4, 1981) is an American pornographic actress. Her first job was a waitress at an Applebee's franchise. She later worked in a nudist resort as a cocktail server where she worked topless. While at college she studied Fashion Design and Marketing and has only to do her internship to earn her degree. She is bisexual. Her stage name came about because her friends all nicknamed her "CC" and she liked the name "Courtney". One of her friends suggested "Cums" as a last name in reference to her frequent masturbation, which became "Cummz". In her first few months, she was doing at least thirty scenes a month and almost all of those scenes involved anal sex. She credits Joey Silvera for broadening her horizons sexually to fetishes like female to male strapon sex and foot play. Her parents are aware of her chosen profession; Cummz has related a story of how during her first year in the adult business she came down with pink eye and as a result did not go home for Christmas. She received a Christmas package from her mother and stepfather containing various dominatrix outfits and a note saying only "Love Mom and Dad". In October 2005 she signed with the production

Hikari Hino (妃乃ひかり, Hino Hikari) is a Japanese AV idol who has performed for several prominent adult video (AV) companies and who has appeared in more than 500 AVs. Hino was born March 7, 1986 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In July 2005 she debuted at age 19 on the Crystal-Eizou company's Venus label in the video G's Curiosity - Hikari Hino (Gの好奇心 妃乃ひかり). Crystal-Eizou promoted her video appearances by offering fans a chance to buy a pair of her "T-Back" panties in an auction ending on January 21, 2006. Hino was the subject of two further panty-auctions in March and June 2006. Hino remained with Crystal-Eizou for a year, making about one video a month, before she moved on to Moodyz, one of the largest studios in the Japanese porn industry, in July 2006. For the 2006 year, Hino ranked # 31 in the list of 100 best selling actresses at the video retailer DMM (part of the Hokuto Corporation). Hino continued to make videos with Moodyz but she also made numerous videos with several other companies as well including a number of more hardcore S&M works for the Attackers and Dogma studios. Hino's 2007 video for Moodyz, Super Deluxe Body Special (超絶品ボディーSPECIAL), won the 8th Place runner-up

Kira Nicole Kener (born Stephanie Knain on August 11, 1974 in San Jose, California) is a retired American pornographic actress. She is Eurasian, as her father is of Norwegian ancestry and her mother is of Vietnamese ancestry. She has legally changed her name to Kira Kener as well as registering it as a trademark. As with many hardcore porn stars, Kira began her career in the adult industry as a feature dancer before being approached by Vivid Video in 1999 for her hardcore debut in the film Nurses. She was Penthouse Pet of the Month for December 2002 and also shared the cover of Playboy in March 2002 with several other adult-film stars. She was a contributing writer to the book How to Have a XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid Guide, published in 2004. She is also one of thirty porn-stars featured in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's book, XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits. In February 2007, Digital Playground released the DVD Virtual Sex With Kira Kener and is the only hardcore release in which the male subject does not wear a condom while having intercourse with Kira. Kira was under exclusive contract with Vivid Video from 1999 to 2005. Kira currently resides in North Carolina and continues to

Melissa Lauren (born October 16, 1984, in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French pornographic actress and director. Lauren started off studying as a cook for three years and worked in Paris as a pastry chef. After reading an ad in a newspaper from French porn director John B. Root, Lauren began filming six days later, in June 2003. Her directorial debut was for the gonzo pornography company Combat Zone with the film Plucked Then Fucked. She would continue to perform with women, in solo scenes, and in photo shoots. In 2007 she became Diabolic Video’s first female director, and directed a volume of the Unnatural Sex series. She has a tattoo on her right forearm stating Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit (What Nourishes Me Also Destroys Me).

Anna Bergman (born 5 May 1948 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a former Swedish actress. She is the daughter of film and theatre director Ingmar Bergman and choreographer-director Ellen Bergman, sister to Eva, Jan and Mats Bergman (twin); and half-sister to Daniel Bergman and Linn Ullmann. Bergman mostly appeared as a performer in several European sex comedies during the late 1970s, though later she appeared in small roles in more mainstream films including her father's 1982 film Fanny and Alexander. She also appeared as Swedish au pair Ingrid Svenson in seasons 2 and 4 of the British situation comedy Mind Your Language.

Jesse Jane (born Cindy Taylor on July 16, 1980 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American pornographic actress and model. Jane was a military brat who grew up on various military bases in the Midwestern United States. She did extensive dance training and was a varsity cheerleader at her high school in Rose Hill, Kansas. She graduated from high school in Moore, Oklahoma. Jane read an article on Tera Patrick that said that Patrick worked for adult-film production company Digital Playground. She contacted them and was quickly signed to a contract. Her first scene was with Devon in No Limits. Within months of winning the contract, she appeared on Showtime Network's Family Business, where she was filmed at the Adult Video News awards show and convention. Jane appeared on the cover of Texas-based metal band Drowning Pool's second album Desensitized and was featured in the music video for the album's first hit single, "Step Up." She has said that Drowning Pool is one of her favorite bands. On the July 25, 2006 episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, during the "Jay Walking" segment, she gave her name as "Cindy" and said that she currently worked at Hooters. An adult magazine cover featuring

Lucy Lee (born April 10, 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (present Czech Republic)), is a porn star of Czech descent. During her career, Lee has worked in both the American and European adult industries and has appeared in over 140 adult films. She performs in both hardcore and softcore movies and pictorials.

Porsche Lynn (born in St. Johns, Michigan, U.S.) is the stage name of an American exotic dancer, dominatrix, and pornographic actress. She chose her stage name from the Porsche car company after seeing one of their cars during a drive to one of her earliest film shoots; she added "Lynn" to it as it fit well. Lynn's parents both died when she was 6 years old - her parents were in the midst of a bitter divorce. Lynn, her mother and her grandmother drove to get her father's signature on the divorce papers; when her mother knocked on the door, her father shot his wife then shot himself. Between 1985 and 2002, Lynn appeared in about 170 movies. She started her career making vanilla films, but now specializes in female domination films. In recent years, she has worked as a dominatrix in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona. At one point, her legs were insured for $1 million. Lynn is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame.

Tony Tedeschi is an American pornographic movie actor. Before his pornography career, he worked as a deejay at the Foxy Lady strip club in Providence. He was spotted by Britt Morgan, who was performing there at the time, and shot his first porn scenes with her in 1990. He starred in over 1,200 films between 1990 and 2012, and co-directed one, Late Night Sessions With Tony Tedeschi, with Bud Lee, in 2004. He was married to fellow porn star Tina Tyler from 1993 to 1994. He appeared in the 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson film Boogie Nights. He was also a contestant on Win Ben Stein's Money (taped in December 2000, aired in April 2001). In 2003, Tedeschi was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Tedeschi has won a number of AVN Awards:

Dina Jewel (born February 1, 1978) is a Norwegian former pornographic actress. Also known as Nanna Gibson, Valerie, and Nanà Elliot, she appeared in adult movies between 1996 and 1999. She was the February 1998 Penthouse Pet of the Month, and was nominated for the 2000 Hot d'Or for Best European Actress. In June 2005, an executive at a Swedish medical products agency was dismissed for hiring Jewel to interview drug addicts. In February 2009 she opened a club with rockmusic in Copenhagen called Jewel Rocks.

Anetta Keys is a Czech pornographic actress and Internet nude model. She has also used the stage name Katrin.

Sibel Kekilli (born 16 June 1980) is a German actress. She gained public attention after starring in the 2004 film Head-On (German: Gegen die Wand). She has won two Lolas, the most prestigious German film awards, for her performances in Head-On and When We Leave. Recently she has appeared in the HBO series Game of Thrones as Shae, the concubine and lover of Tyrion Lannister, one of the show's leading characters. Kekilli was born and raised in Heilbronn, then in West Germany, to a family of Turkish origin. Her parents came to West Germany from Turkey in 1977, and were described by Kekilli as fairly liberal. After finishing school successfully at age 16, she completed an apprenticeship as an public administration employee at the local city government, and then worked for two years at the municipal waste disposal office. She moved to Essen in 2002, where she had various jobs, including work as a saleswoman, cleaner, manager of a nightclub and promoter. One day in 2002, while at a Cologne shopping mall, she was noticed by a casting director, who invited her to audition for a role in a movie. Sibel won the leading part in Fatih Akın's Head-On (German: Gegen die Wand) against a field of

Annie Cruz (born November 6, 1984 in Stockton, California) is the stage name of a Filipino American pornographic actress and nude model. Cruz was born in Stockton, California, to Filipino immigrant parents. She graduated from Brookside Christian High School in Stockton, where she was a cheerleader, and claims to have graduated in the top 5% of her class. She then moved to San Rafael to attend the Dominican University of California, majoring in print journalism. In her sophomore year, she transferred to San Francisco State University, but apparently left without graduating. Instead, she began performing in pornographic films. Cruz appeared on The Howard Stern Show on March 28, 2006. The same year she appeared in a minor role in the film National Lampoon's Teed Off Too. She trained as a boxer with one of Laila Ali's former coaches. She fought and won two boxing matches, but gave up boxing for fear of an injury that might interfere with her porn career. She also has made several appearances on WEW (Women's Extreme Wrestling). In 2011 she appeared in Stephen Malkmus' music video Senator. Cruz has also been featured in several sex and bondage videos for Kink.com's SexandSubmission.com

Brittany Andrews is the stage name of Michelle Barry, an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer and film producer. She is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. She worked in a Milwaukee beauty supply company before starting her career as an exotic dancer. After doing photo shoots for men's magazines, she began her career in adult film after meeting Jenna Jameson in 1995, during a photo shoot for Hustler magazine in Jamaica. In December 2003, Brittany Andrews was appointed to the Women In Adult (WIA) Board of Directors as the Talent Liaison. In addition to her adult film work she hosts several cable TV shows, including Playboy TV and Talking Blue, which she co-produces. At her self-owned Britco Pictures studio, Andrews starred in, directed and produced pornographic movies such as the strap-on movie Brittany's Bitch Boys, and Lesbians in Lust. Andrews has promoted using a condom for hardcore sex scenes. In 2007, Andrews was featured on an episode of The Tyra Banks Show, where she discussed webcam girls. In February 2008, Andrews retired from porn, and held a Presidents Day party announcing that she was moving to New York to attend film school at the New York Film Academy. However

Cherokee (born January 12, 1976) is an American Hardcore Porn Star, pornographic director and nude model. Raised in Erlanger, Kentucky, she began her career as a porn star at age 26. She has been active in the porn industry as early as late 2001/early 2002. In 2006 she began directing adult films, starting with the fetish release for Sinteractive entitled The Dominators 2. She is affiliated in more than 200 films with major adult film production companies, including Wicked Pictures, Vivid, and Jill Kelly Productions. At the 2004 Exotic Dancer Awards show, she won the Best New Feature award. She has stated that she is bisexual.

Dru Berrymore (born 11 August 1969) is a German pornographic actress. She had a small uncredited role in David Lynch's 1997 film Lost Highway. She was also in Die Hard 2, in a very small role playing Capt. Carmine Lorenzo's (Dennis Franz) secretary.

Ginger Lynn (born Ginger Lynn Allen; December 14, 1962) is an American pornographic model, prominent in 1980s videos. She also had occasional roles in low-budget B-movies. AVN has ranked her at #7 in a list of the 50 greatest porn stars of all time. After ending her adult-entertainment career she began using her full name of Ginger Lynn Allen and found work in a variety of B-movies. She had a late career comeback to the adult industry and made a brief series of movies. During this two-year period she toured the country doing interviews for radio shows and appearances at adult-entertainment stores. Ginger Lynn Allen moved to California in 1982 after hearing about her grandfather's heart attack. Following her grandfather's death, a male friend came to live with her and became her "first nice boyfriend". Allen was the major financial supporter in the relationship and needed to find a higher-paying job. When she answered an advertisement from the World Modeling Agency in September 1983, she was immediately hired and did a spread for Penthouse. This made her visible to the adult film industry. Allen did some nude modeling work and then began performing in sex movies as Ginger Lynn in

Jane Darling (born September 26, 1980 in Klášterec nad Ohří) is the stage name of a former Czech-born pornographic actress. She began in pornographic films on 11 September 2001 and has performed in almost 250 films. She retired in 2008. On July 30, 2004, Darling was among five pornographic actors who were arrested in Mexico and subsequently expelled for doing business on tourist visas. Darling and the other four performers were visiting Mexico to attend the 1st Annual Mexico Erotic Festival.

Melissa Hill (born 1970 in San Francisco, California) is a former pornographic actress and director. She has made over 200 movies during her career.

Sean Michaels (born Andre Allen, February 20, 1958, Brooklyn, New York) is a pornographic actor and director. He moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in order to begin his career in porn, in which he has worked since 1988. Michaels has also been a director of adult films since 1991 and has appeared in 2,000 pornographic films and over 7,000 scenes. Many of his scenes involve interracial and anal sex. According to an adult film news web page, in 2003 Michaels was issued a cease and desist order by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on the use of his name due to the similarity it had to WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels. According to the same adult film web page, Sean's name was already registered as a trademark, while Shawn Michaels had not registered his moniker. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame. Along with Lisa Ann and Nikki Benz, Michaels hosted the XRCO Awards in April 2010.

TJ Hart (born February 25, 1967 in Dekalb, Illinois) is an American pornographic actress.

Vicki Richter is a transsexual pornographic actress.

Layla Jade (born 1 October 1980 in Torquay, England) is a pornographic actress turned director and model. Layla Jade has appeared in over 300 films, as well as in several adult magazines. Her first adult movie was Ben Dover's Butt Bangers Bonanza, which was shot on her 18th birthday. In 2000 Layla appeared alongside British pornstar Nadia, in the music video for Add N to X's single "Plug Me In". In 2002 Jade became the star of Elegant Angel’s Buttwoman series. Jade is a published writer of erotic literature, and in 2003 she began writing a column for AVN Insider. In the same year, she made her first appearance as a feature dancer in the United States. In 2004 Jade hosted the KSEXradio Listeners’ Choice Awards. By 2006, Jade's adult film appearances had slowed. In 2007 she briefly returned to shooting before disappearing again to focus on personal appearances, her radio show and the running of her website. According to her websites, in July 2009 Jade secured a deal to produce and direct a show for UK based station Television X, called Layla Jade Does Hollywood. This began airing on the channel as of April 2010.

Olivia Del Rio (born April 16, 1969 in Rio Casca, Brazil) is a Brazilian pornographic actress. In 2003 she appeared in two episodes of the Swedish television show High Chaparall. She is married with two children and lives in France and Morocco where she runs a bar with her husband.

Bridgette Kerkove is an American pornographic actress, director and producer. Kerkove entered the adult industry in 1998 and performed in hundreds of titles in her career. She started directing in 2001, working for companies such as Metro Studios and No Boundaries. Her first feature movie as a director was Babe Illustrated 15.

Brooke Hunter (born March 14, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American pornographic actress and director. She married Don Hollywood (also known as Ron Miller) on January 15, 2000. Before Brooke became a porn star she worked as an accountant. With her manager and husband Don Hollywood, who also operates the Erotica L.A. conventions, she works on movies for Wildfire Productions. The first series from Wildfire is Brooke Hunter's Sexual Antics. She has also hosted a television series called Dirty Newcomers, produced by Wildfire. Hunter and Hollywood have hosted a KSEX radio show called Tits and Asshole. Her contract with Wildfire is not exclusive, however, as she also works for Vivid Entertainment, Wicked Pictures and VCA Pictures.

Dolly Buster, official Nora Baumberger (born October 23, 1969 in Prague, Czechoslovakia as Nora Dvořáková), is a film producer and director, actress, author, and a former porn star. Buster has starred in hundreds of X-rated European movies, and had gained a name for herself as one of the biggest in the industry. She is also the author of a successful series of crime-novels about a German porn-star-turned-amateur-sleuth. In 2004 she attempted to obtain a seat in European parliament as candidate of a fringe Czech political party. The party got 0.71% of votes. She appeared in the German version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. In Finland, the main newspaper of record in the land Helsingin Sanomat was forced to apologize when an illustration of an article about porn shops included a more than explicit picture of a video cover depicting her anally penetrated on its pages. She currently lives with her husband in Wesel, Germany, also indulging in painting and drawing having taken life-drawing classes from Arnim Tölke at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She has been voted Germany's "hottest porn star" at the age of 39.

Kaitlyn Ashley (born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a former American pornographic actress and a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. Kaitlyn Ashley retired from adult films in late 1997 and moved to Tennessee where she had a baby. Has no plans returning to the business. Kaitlyn Ashley retired from adult films in late 1997 and moved to Tennessee where she had a baby. Has no plans returning to the business.

Loletta Lee (Chinese: 李麗珍, also known as Lee Lai Chun in Cantonese and Li Li Zhen, in Mandarin) is a Hong Kong actress born on 8 January 1966 in Hong Kong. She later changed her name to Rachel Lee in 2000. She started playing small roles in Hong Kong movies in the 1980s. Her first role as main actress is in Devoted to You. She continued to play as young teenager in the 1980s until 1990. Her performance in Ordinary Heroes earned her a Golden Horse Award in 1999 for Best Actress. She can be found today working in mainstream Hong Kong cinema. In an interview with FHM, Loletta revealed that her parents were Indonesian Chinese of Meixian ancestry.

Cassidey Rae (born December 24, 1980) is an American pornographic actress. In 2005 she began a one-year hiatus from the adult film industry, during which she worked with children as a counselor, then worked for Myspace founder Brad Greenspan. She also got married to Raylene's younger brother. Cassidey has been a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment. Media related to Cassidey at Wikimedia Commons

Teri Diver (September 6, 1971 – January 2, 2001) was an American pornstar and director. She died of an accidental drug overdose. Diver starred in over 200 movies in the 1990s. Diver became an 'emancipated youth' at the age of 13. She graduated from high school ahead of her class and entered college at a young age. There, she stated that she majored in "behavior modification." After turning 18, Diver paid her way through school by stripping on the side. Diver worked as a school teacher, and supplemented this income by holding down a part-time job at weight-loss clinic Nutri-System. Eventually Diver moved to California, where she faced a variety of financial problems. Director Henri Pachard convinced Diver to try her hand at porn. Diver soon moved into directing and producing, with the help of AVN publisher Paul Fishbein. She eventually directed forty features. Diver was a migraine headache sufferer for years, which led to her death on January 2, 2001. She apparently took an overdose of her migraine medication, which caused her to go into cardiac arrest.

Tony Eveready (born Duane Reed Moore on March 12, 1971) is a hardcore porn star who entered the industry in 1994. He is known as the self-styled "Gangsta of Porn" and "Thug of Porn", easily recognizable by his distinctive cornrow hairstyle. During his 14-year-long career, he appeared in hundreds of pornographic movies. Notable roles include Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle (2001) and the internet video "1 Man DP". In 2008, Eveready was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison, stemming from charges of cocaine and firearm possession. Eveready made his first documented professional porn appearance in 1994, with Black Gang Bangers 3. However, he had also made amateur films dating back to 1991. . After a string of black-themed pornos, the up-and-coming Eveready soon became known for his "gangsta" style and memorable interracial sexual encounters. Since entering the business, he has starred in over 150 studio-released movies and countless internet shorts. Rapper Snoop Dogg cast Eveready in his first well-known roles. The "Thug of Porn" appeared in the documentary/hip-hop music video/adult film Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle (2001) and its follow-up, Snoop Dogg's Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp

Lindsey "Linzi" Jane Drew (born 11 May 1958 in Bristol) is an English former glamour model, producer, adult model and pornographic actress. During a varied career in the UK sex industry Drew worked as a Page Three girl, stripper, glamour model and porn actress and was at one time the editor of the British edition of Penthouse magazine. At her height, in the 1980s, she appeared nude on a monthly basis in the softcore magazine Club International. In the 1990s she was jailed for illegally distributing pornography, something which she and boyfriend Simon Honey (aka or Lindsay Honey) talked about in a BBC Open Space documentary entitled More Sex Please, We're British (1993). This documentary, which discussed liberalisation of censorship laws, was made by Isobel Koprowski, the former editor of Forum magazine. Drew has also had minor roles in a handful of mainstream films including An American Werewolf in London, and a number of Ken Russell films including starring in the Nessun dorma segment of the multi-director film, Aria. She also appeared on the cover of the 1984 Roger Waters concept album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking. and the film back-projected during the accompanying live

Liza Harper (born March 21, 1976) is a French pornographic actress who began her porn career in 1994. 2007 AVN Award nominee – Best Supporting Actress in a Film (To Die For)

Tiana Lynn (born September 1, 1983 in Tucson, Arizona) is a former American pornographic actress. She is well known for her ability to ejaculate Lynn entered the adult industry in 2003, and soon after discovered her ability to squirt during a scene with Mark Ashley. In 2005 she became a contract performer and production manager for the adult production company Elegant Angel. In January 2006 she retired from performing to concentrate on her work as national sales manager for the company. Her final appearance on video was in Swallow My Squirt 3.

Alaura Eden (born June 13, 1977 in San Francisco, California) is an American former pornographic actress. She first appeared in adult films in 2002 at the age of 25.

Elena Sergeyevna Berkova (Russian: Елена Сергеевна Беркова), born on 1 April 1985, in Murmansk, USSR, is a Russian ex-model, television presenter, singer and actress (including hardcore pornography acting). In 2004, she joined the popular show Dom-2 on TV channel TNT. In 2006 Elena appeared as a singer in a pop music girl group Min net!.

Lolo Ferrari, born Eve Valois ((1963-02-09)February 9, 1963 – March 5, 2000), was a French dancer, sex star, pornographic actress, actress and singer billed as "the woman with the largest breasts in the world" though their size was artificially achieved. She entered the international limelight in 1995 and appeared in the French Guinness Book of World Records in 1996 and again in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1999. Her death in 2000 was initially ruled a suicide, but suspicions remained that her husband may have been involved. He was cleared in 2007. Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France, Eve Valois was raised in the resort town of La Baule. She often talked about an unhappy childhood, with her father absent and her mother disliking her. As a teenager, she obtained a few modelling jobs. In 1988, she married Eric Vigne, a former drug dealer 15 years her senior who had just been released from prison. She then started to work as a model with her husband as manager. She also worked as a prostitute and her husband was arrested for being her pimp. Encouraged by her husband, beginning in 1990 Eve underwent numerous plastic surgery operations to create a 180-centimetre

Louise Frevert (born May 31, 1953) is a former member of the Danish parliament, born in Frederiksberg. She was elected as member of parliament for the Danish People's Party in the 2001 election and reelected in 2005. She left the party in 2007, and later joined the Centre Democrats, which did not stand for reelection in the 2007 elections. She is also a former member of the Conservative People's Party. Before entering politics she was a professional belly dancer and performed in the 1970s for the Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. She also performed as a backup dancer with Debbie Cameron at Eurovision 1981. She has also been a pornographic actress and has performed in several short vignettes from Color Climax. Louise Frevert is openly lesbian and in registered partnership with another woman.

Mark Davis (born on 6 August 1965, in Essex, England, United Kingdom) is a British pornographic actor, a pornographic film director, and an exotic dancer. Though Davis was born in Essex, Mark and his family moved to Toronto, Canada in 1981. After graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles to shoot a Playgirl pictorial. From 1984 to 1988, Davis was employed as a stripper for the "Chippendale" dancers. In January 1993, Mark began his career in adult films. In 2004 Davis was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame. and is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. On the 28th September 2012, Mark announced via Facebook his retirement from the Industry.

Nikki Dial (born October 5, 1973 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is the stage name of an American porn actress. Dial began her adult film career as a teenager, in the film American Built, and performed in more than 70 movies between 1991 and 1996. She withdrew from adult films in around 1995, to focus on her college education. Up until 2004, she still occasionally appeared as a feature club dancer and adult film actress. She has also done voice acting in English-dubbed hentai anime. She worked for adult studios including Legend and VCA Pictures, and was a contract performer with Vivid for a year.

Shyla Foxxx (born December 21, 1972, in Chicago, Illinois) is a pornographic actress of Puerto Rican descent. Foxxx was profiled along with pornographic actresses Devon and Coral Sands on the show Entertainment Tonight, February 8, 1999. She was profiled on the Spanish-language news program Noticias, May 10, 1999. Shyla was interviewed by KPIX Eyewitness News At Five, June 17, 1997 in an expose on pornography.

Tricia Devereaux (born January 12 1975 in Illinois, U.S.) is the stage name of an American former pornographic actress. Devereaux grew up "in a small town a couple hours outside of Chicago," where she had a strict upbringing and attended a private Catholic high school. She attended college in the Midwest, got her bachelor's degree in Biology from a college in Missouri, then attended one year of medical school. Before starting medical school, she had married her boyfriend Patrick. Patrick got a job working as a bouncer in a strip club and Devereaux would occasionally visit him there. The other dancers encouraged her to enter the club's amateur contest which she won; this led to her working there to make extra money. A number of established porn stars visited the club as feature dancers—names such as Victoria Paris, Jeanna Fine, and Samantha Strong. Seeing the extra money that the features made, Devereaux sent pictures of herself to Hustler magazine for their "Beaver Hunt" feature, which got published. At the same time Devereaux came in fifth in Déjà Vu's national Stripper of the Year. She then flew out to Los Angeles at Joey Silvera's request (he had seen pictures Devereaux had sent

Jesse Capelli (born May 21, 1979) is a Canadian adult model and a pornographic actress. She is bisexual. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and described herself as a "real tomboy" when younger. In April 2004 she was the Penthouse Pet of the Month. Capelli has also modeled for other men's magazines, including Perfect 10 and the UK magazine Men's World. Capelli performs exclusively in girl/girl scenes for ClubJenna and has appeared in adult videos, including fetish titles such as Jesse Loves Pain (2007). In addition to her work in the adult entertainment industry Capelli had a recurring role on the television series Battle Dome and has appeared mainstream feature films such as Van Wilder and Not Another Teen Movie.

Scott Schwartz (born May 12, 1968) is a former child actor best known for his roles in The Toy and A Christmas Story. Schwartz co-starred opposite Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason in 1982's The Toy directed by Richard Donner. In 1982, Schwartz filmed Kidco directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. In 1983, he featured in the Christmas film A Christmas Story as Flick, who got his tongue stuck to a frozen pole. In 1985, Schwartz co-starred with Liza Minnelli, Corey Haim, and Jeffrey DeMunn in the television film A Time to Live. Schwartz attended high school in 1982/3 and 1985/6 at Bridgewater Raritan HS West in Bridgewater, NJ, with future professional basketball player Eric Murdock. He moved on to attend the Professional Children's School from 1983 to 1985. Since 1987, he has managed a sports and movie memorabilia collectibles store, Baseball Cards - Movie Collectibles Etc. with his father Dan Schwartz in Woodland Hills, California. Schwartz' father was Elvis Presley's US Army company clerk in Germany from 1958-1960. In the 1990's, Schwartz worked in the adult film industry in minor, non-sexual roles, and behind the scenes in numerous administrative roles. After appearing in more than a dozen

Amber Lynn (born Laura Lynn Allen on September 3, 1964, in Orange, California) is an American pornographic film actress, model, and exotic dancer. Amber Lynn was born Laura Lynn Allen, the youngest daughter of a retired Air Force officer. She had 4 brothers and an older sister who died at the age of two from an undetected heart defect. When Lynn was three, her parents divorced after it was discovered her father had a family with another woman. Shortly after, Lynn's mother suffered a nervous breakdown, and Lynn was placed in foster care where she was physically abused. At age 7, she was reunited with her mother. Shortly after, the two of them were involved in a car accident on the interstate; Lynn was thrown clear of the car while her mother, who was nearly decapitated, died at the scene. Lynn and her brothers were placed with her father and his new family; in total there were 8 boys and Lynn in the house. At age 11, her father died of alcoholism and heart failure. As a teenager, Lynn self-described her change as going from "pudgy kind of bucktoothed" tomboy to a "rocking little body". She started doing fitness modeling, bikini modeling, and hot body contests. She relocated to

Angel Dark (born on April 11, 1982 in Sobrance) is a Slovak pornographic actress and nude model. She began her career in the adult film industry in 2002, and has since appeared in over 180 films. She was working as a bartender in restaurants and cafes. She was approached on the street by a makeup artist who worked on porn sets, who asked her if she wanted to do some lingerie shoots. While Dark was shocked when she discovered that it was not a lingerie shoot but a porn shoot, her fears were quickly eased and she began doing regular work. She has performed in Interracial, hardcore, double penetration, A2M, lesbian, and anal sex scenes.

Rocco Siffredi (born Rocco Antonio Tano, 4 May 1964, in Ortona, Abruzzo) is the stage name of an Italian pornographic actor, director and producer of pornographic movies, notable for his rough sex scenes. As of October 2011, he has starred in more than 450 pornographic films. Rocco took his stage name from the character "Roch Siffredi" played by Alain Delon in the French gangster film Borsalino (1970). He is also known as the "Italian Stallion". Siffredi met porn actor Gabriel Pontelo in a French sex club in 1984. The actor introduced Siffredi to producer Marc Dorcel and director Michel Ricaud, who cast him in his first pornographic role, Belle d'Amour (1989). Siffredi then stepped away from porn and worked as a fashion model, but returned to the business after two years with the help of porn actress Teresa Orlowski. Siffredi went on to perform in both plot-based and gonzo-style pornography, with styles of sex ranging from conservative to extreme. However, it was Siffredi's performances involving rough sex, anal sex and analingus, and his psychological intensity and athleticism, that earned him recognition and ultimately a cult following. Through collaboration with John Stagliano's

Sunny Leone (born Karenjit Kaur Vohra May 13, 1981) is a Canadian actress, businesswoman, model and former pornographic actress. She was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003 and was a contract star for Vivid Entertainment. Named by Maxim as one of the 12 top porn stars in 2010, she has also played roles in independent mainstream films and television shows. Leone was born in Sarnia, Ontario to Sikh Punjabi parents. Her father was born in Tibet and raised in Delhi, while her mother (who died in 2008) was from Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh. As a young girl, she was very athletic and played street hockey with the boys, and ice skating on a nearby frozen lake. Although the family was Sikh, her parents enrolled her in Catholic school as it was felt to be unsafe for her to go to public school. There she had her first kiss at 11, lost her virginity to a basketball player at another school at 16, and discovered her bisexuality at age 18. When she was 13, her family moved to Fort Gratiot, Michigan, then to Lake Forest, California a year later, fulfilling her grandparents' dream that the family be together in one place. She graduated from high school in 1999 and enrolled in college. Before

Allysin Chaynes (born 11 February 1979 in Romania) is a pornographic actress. She made her debut in Joey Silvera's Butt Row Swallowed and won the 2001 XRCO Award for Cream Dream. She had the title role of Heatwave's Kelly the Coed series for most of the series. Chaynes also signed with LGI in 2003 to direct and star in a monthly series, Allysin On The Road.

Ashley Long (born June 8, 1979 in London, England) is a British former pornographic actress.

Autumn Haze (born on 26 March 1976 in Arkansas, U.S.) is a former American pornographic actress. Her movie Autumn Haze vs. Son of Dong won the 2003 AVN Award for Most Outrageous Sex Scene.

Janine Marie Lindemulder (born November 14, 1968), also known as Janine Marie James, is an American exotic dancer and adult film actress, best known for her work in American pornographic films (typically credited as just Janine) during the mid-1990s and a 2004–2005 comeback. Lindemulder has appeared in several music videos for bands including Blink-182 as well as appearing on the band's Enema of the State album cover. She modeled for Penthouse magazine, making her first appearance in the December 1987 issue, as the Pet of the Month. She appeared several more times in Penthouse over the next ten years, and was chosen as Pet of the Year Runner-Up for 1990. Lindemulder attempted to branch-out into mainstream films early in her career. Her first role came in the 1988 Italian film titled Bersaglio sull'autostrada. Known as Moving Target in English-speaking countries, she was credited as Janine Linde; the film also starred Linda Blair of The Exorcist fame. She went on to act in other lower-tier mainstream films, including Spring Break USA and Caged Fury. Both films achieved minimal success. Her appearance in Penthouse led to a role in a video released by that company, titled Penthouse

Joey Silvera (born Joseph Nassivera on December 20, 1951) is an American pornographic actor and director. Joey Silvera has been involved in the American pornographic industry since the early 1970s. A native of upstate New York, he got his start performing in San Francisco in 1974, and went on to appear in more than 1,000 videos. He was often cast as the wacky sidekick to the lead actor, and was regarded as one of adult film's best actors. In the early 1990s, Silvera went on to direct videos for his own company All Blew Shirts (later called Joey Silvera Video). His movies were first distributed by Devil's Film, and he later was invited to join John Stagliano's Evil Angel. Silvera is credited with bringing transsexual, or shemale, videos to the porno mainstream. His notable lines include Service Animals, Face Fucking, Inc. and the shemale series Rogue Adventures. He appeared on American rap musician Necro's 2005 album, The Sexorcist, with a spoken word part on the song 'Whore' claiming Necro inspires his porn films. He is a member of the AVN, Legends of Erotica and XRCO Halls of Fame. As a performer As a director

Katsuni (born April 9, 1979 in Lyon, France) is a French pornographic actress. Katsuni is of French/Vietnamese heritage. Her father is Vietnamese and her mother's family is French. She is fluent in both English and French. After studying political sciences for a year at Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, she entered the adult film industry in 2002 at about the age of 23, and has since appeared in over 200 films. In December 2006, Katsuni signed an exclusive performing contract with Digital Playground. She originally performed using the stage name Katsumi (a common given name in Japan for both sexes), but she was barred by a French judge in January 2007 from using the name after a woman named Mary Katsumi sued over the resemblance to her own name. In October 2007, Katsuni was fined €20,000 for violations of the ban on using the name "Katsumi". In 2011 she promoted Hentai during a comic convention in Angoulême, France

Clifton Todd Britt (born November 28, 1969), better known as Lexington Steele, is an American award-winning pornographic actor, director and owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc. He is the first actor to have won the AVN Male Performer of the Year Award three times. Steele was born in New Jersey. After attending Morristown High School, he attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia for two years but graduated from Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences with a double degree in History and African-American studies in 1993. After graduation, he worked in New York City as a stockbroker in the World Trade Center starting as a trainee in Euro Brokers Inc and working his way up the chain of command. He was licensed as a financial adviser and working on Wall Street within months of graduating. He has stated that he would have been in the buildings and been a victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks had he kept his old job as a stockbroker. He worked as a model on the side and acted in minor TV roles. He began to appear in adult movies in the later part of 1997, in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles and joined the industry full-time in March

Nick Manning (born May 28, 1967) is an American pornographic actor, director, former print fashion model and country musician. Nick Manning was born in Chicago, Illinois. After finishing school, he pursued a career in fashion which led him to posing for numerous advertising campaigns, including some for well-known fashion companies and independent films. He reported on his April 17, 2007 appearance on The Howard Stern Show that he formerly worked on Wall Street and has a Master's Degree. Nick Manning began his career in the adult industry in 1997 with an appearance in Playgirl magazine followed by 3 years of exclusive adult magazine work. In 2000, he made his first appearance in the adult film industry in the movie Mirage. Since this role, he has appeared in 3000 adult films and 600 adult magazines. In 2003, he was awarded Best Male Newcomer by Adult Video News. He has directed and produced several adult films, including The Fans Have Spoken 4 and Beauty Within. Manning has a line of male sex toys bearing his name, Nick Manning's Masturstroke Kit (a masturbation device/penis enlarger or penis pump) and Nick Manning's Body Slam Masturbator. Sound clips of his voice have been used

Nikky Blond (born March 9, 1981) is a Hungarian pornographic film actress. She started working in the porn industry in around 1999 and has appeared in over 100 movies.

Tommy Gunn (born May 13, 1967) is the stage name of a male American pornographic actor. Beginning his career in pornographic films in 2004, Gunn was soon recognized as the 2005 AVN Best Male Newcomer award. He likewise received the 2006 AVN Best Supporting Actor for his role in Pirates and a second AVN Male Performer of the Year for 2007. He was married to porn actress Rita Faltoyano from 2005-2008. When asked during an August 2007 interview if there was a romance between him and fellow porn star Ashlynn Brooke, Gunn's reply was, "I think we are becoming something more". Gunn and Brooke have since ended their relationship. In 2009, Gunn directed and starred in a 3-D choose-your-own-adventure movie titled Cummin' At You 3D. In 2010, he appeared in Entourage (TV series), Season 7, Episode 10: Lose Yourself. As of February 2012, he has appeared in 1019 porn films.

Jacklyn Lick (born May 20, 1970 in Portland, Oregon) is a pornographic actress and bondage model. Lick got into the porn industry in 1996 with the help of porn actress Sunset Thomas. She continues to perform in adult films while simultaneously working in mainstream films. Lick has worked as a writer, director, and executive producer in multiple film genres. Lick has appeared in over 300 adult films, 60 mainstream films and 80 bondage/fetish films. Lick was a contract spokesperson for the adult toy company, Las Vegas Novelties. She signed a 5 year contract with Pipedream Products in 2005 when they bought Las Vegas Novelties. She was one of the first adult performers to maintain an online presence, using bulletin board systems prior to launching her own website. She has been a vegetarian since the age of 13 and is a supporter of PETA.

Gina Lynn (born Tanya Mercado on February 15, 1974) is a Puerto Rican born American pornographic actress of Italian descent. Lynn was born to Puerto Rican and Italian parents in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and grew up in Jackson Township, New Jersey; she currently resides and operates Gina Lynn Productions in Reading, Pennsylvania. Subsequently she expanded into modeling in men's magazines, posing for Chéri in 1997. She made her adult film debut in 2001 as a contract girl with Pleasure Productions. As of 2009 she continues to make movies for the company, as well as for her own studio, Gina Lynn Productions. Lynn is bisexual. Lynn made an appearance in Eminem's "Superman" music video, as well as Vinnie Paz's "Keep Movin' On" music video and was an extra in the movies Analyze That and Minghags. She had a brief speaking role as a stripper in a 2004 episode of The Sopranos. In March 2012, Gina was announced by Penthouse to be their Penthouse Pet for April 2012.

Anna Ilona Staller (born 26 November 1951), widely known by her stage name, La Cicciolina, is a Hungarian-born Italian porn star, politician, and singer. Staller continued to make hardcore pornographic films while a member of parliament. She is famous for delivering political speeches with one breast exposed. Ilona was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her father, László Staller, left the family when she was young. She was raised by her mother, who was a midwife, and her stepfather who was an official in the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior. In 1964, she began working for the Hungarian modeling agency, M.T.I. In her memoirs and in a 1999 TV interview, she claimed that she had provided the Hungarian authorities with information on American diplomats staying at a Budapest luxury hotel where she worked as a maid in the late 1960s. Naturalized by marriage and settled in Italy, Staller met pornographer Riccardo Schicchi in the early 1970s, and, beginning in 1973, achieved fame with a radio show called "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" on Radio Luna. For that program she adopted the name Cicciolina, which loosely translates as "Cuddles". She referred to her male fanbase, and later the male

Jon Dough was the stage name of Chester Anuszak (November 12, 1962 – August 27, 2006), an American pornographic actor who worked steadily from 1985 to 2006. Dough grew up in a steel mill town in western Pennsylvania. Dough attended Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1985 with a degree in Biology. After graduating from college, Dough entered porn through his brother who posed for gay magazines. His first film was a short loop he made for Lance Kinkaid in 1985. In 1999, Vivian Valentine received a black eye after being hit by Jon during the filming of Anabolic Video's Rough Sex, however she has said "I have no regrets or bad feelings about it". As Dough or one of his other performing aliases, he was a veteran of nearly 1,100 adult videos and had directed 71 titles, according to the IAFD. One of his most noteworthy achievements is participating in a gangbang with 101 women, becoming as well the first DVD published by the adult-magazine publisher Hustler. Dough's first marriage was to Deidre Holland, a pornographic actress, whom he later divorced. He remarried, to pornographic actress Monique DeMoan, to whom he remained married until he committed suicide and with

Julia Ann (born October 8, 1969) is an American pornographic actress, feature dancer and former Penthouse Pet; she is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. Julia Ann was born Julia Tavella in Glendale, California. She grew up around animals and developed a love for horses; Julia also took piano lessons and learned to swim "like a fish." At age 12 she moved to Idyllwild, California, where she attended a college-prep school before moving to Los Angeles to live with her grandmother at age 17. By age 18, Julia was modelling, and then became a professional mud wrestler in Hollywood before becoming one half of the popular touring strip club feature act Blondage, with Janine Lindemulder, in the early 1990s. Their success led to offers to join the adult film industry. Julia Ann debuted in adult films in 1993 in Andrew Blake's Hidden Obsessions, in a lesbian sex scene with Lindemulder. She has been a contract girl throughout most of her career. Her first exclusive contract was with Vivid Entertainment (during which time she worked solo and also made a series of Blondage films with Lindemulder). Later she had contracts with Digital Playground (1999) and Wicked Pictures (2002). She was again on

Lucy Lee (born May 20, 1980 in Torrance, California, United States and adopted by a non-Asian family) is an Asian-American pornographic actress and model. After graduating from Torrance High School, Lee "worked really square jobs like The GAP, Jamba Juice, places like that" before becoming a stripper. She then got into the pornography business when she met Vince Vouyer while dancing at the Body Shop club in West Hollywood. She has been in about 200 films. Lee chose her stage name of Lucy Lee as people were jokingly calling her Lucy Liu because of the resemblance. She decided on Lee as it sounded similar.

Richard Pacheco (born Howard Marc Gordon; May 5, 1948) is an American former pornographic film and video actor, writer and director who retired from the X-rated business in the mid-1980s. He appeared in more than 100 x-rated films and videos. He has won multiple adult film awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director. He was Playgirl magazine's Man of the Year in 1979 as Howie Gordon. Howie Gordon grew up in Pittsburgh, the younger of two brothers. He graduated with honors from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1966 and was the president of his class. His first role in pornography was during his term at Antioch College, Ohio, in an amateur student production. After graduation, he quit his job, and moved to Berkeley, California, to live in a commune. In 1971, he met his wife, Carly, through the commune and they married in 1975. In the mid-1970s, Gordon was earning $5 per hour for construction work, and looking to begin a new career. He applied to the Episcopal Theological School at Harvard (to study history) and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1978, he was offered his first professional erotic film role in The Candy

Dick Nasty (born April 26, 1956, London) is an English pornographic actor. He is moderately well known for briefly appearing in the investigative documentary Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, in the 'Porn Stars' episode, where he can be seen filming a scene for controversial pornographer Rob Black, (ak.a Rob Zicari).

Stormy Daniels (born Stephanie Gregory Clifford in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on March 17, 1979), also known as Stormy Waters and simply Stormy, is an American pornographic actress, screenwriter, and director. In 2009, a recruitment effort led her to consider challenging incumbent David Vitter for the 2010 Senate election in her native Louisiana. Daniels' parents divorced when she was four. She was subsequently raised by her mother. Daniels has said of her childhood that she "came from an average, lower-income household...there [were] days without electricity". She attended a magnet school in Louisiana and was the editor of her high school paper and president of the 4-H club. Daniels began stripping at age 17 at a club in Baton Rouge, then expanded to become a feature performer in September 2000. She chose her stage name to reflect her love of Mötley Crüe, whose bassist, Nikki Sixx, named his daughter Storm. While working as a feature she met Devon Michaels, who was doing lesbian scenes in a pair of upcoming movies — one for Wicked Pictures and one for Sin City--and invited Daniels to accompany her. Daniels accompanied Michaels to her Wicked shoot, where she met Brad Armstrong and

Summer Cummings (born March 4, 1968) is the stage name of a prolific American pornographic film producer, director, and performer, and exotic dancer. She has been performing in the sexual fetishism film market since 1990. Cummings was born in Reno, Nevada, where she danced at a topless bar after leaving high school. Cummings later began working as a stripper in San Francisco, doing live sex shows at the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre. In San Francisco, she became interested in fetish pornography, spanking, and BDSM. Cummings has been performing in fetish and BDSM films since her first starring film "Take-out Torture", released by Dungeon Video International in 1990. Cummings is also noted for her cameo appearance in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 film, Boogie Nights which she appears with her former adult stage partner Skye Blue. Cummings and Blue performed together for a number of years as part of a large breast nude review called "SkyeBlue". They formed an online partnership that reflected their two stage names (www.summerskyes.com) and acted together in many adult films. They have since ceased their adult partnership, with both now owning and operating their own pornographic

Teanna Kai (born March 25, 1978) is the professional name of an Asian American pornographic actress and adult model. Kai has given conflicting stories in public interviews. She sometimes claims she is half-Hawaiian and half-Filipina and was born in Manila, saying she came to America in 1994 and settled in Stockton, California. She has also claimed she is Vietnamese and was born in Vietnam, escaping with her parents to Singapore as a child. Her family then allegedly settled in Minnesota, later moving to California. Kai says she grew up in a large family with parents who were "really strict". Nevertheless, she was a cheerleader in high school. Teanna Kai was the Pet of the Month for Penthouse Magazine for October 2001. Her first scenes in the pornographic films were with Ed Powers and Don Fernando; however, she claims that she felt pressured into performing with them and only wanted to perform girl/girl scenes. She did several boy/girl photo shoots under the name "Kayla" that appeared in Foxes adult magazine. Kai claims she was trying to keep her porn career low-key to keep her parents from finding out. She has described herself as heterosexual.

Sabrina Johnson (born 29 July 1977 in Leigh, England) is an English former pornographic actress. She began performing in adult movies in around 1995, at the age of 18. In 2000 she attempted to break the world gangbang record, by reportedly having sex 2000 times during a two-day event named Gangbang 2000, held on 28 and 29 December. She originally was advertised as having reached 2000 sex acts over the course of two days in Belgium, but later stated that she had only had approximately 500 sex acts with a few dozen participants over both days. The event took place in Chatsworth, California, where she was visiting at the time. In 2002 she directed the Elegant Angel movie Can I Fuck You Too?.

Alektra Blue (born June 9, 1983) is an American pornographic actress. Blue was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but grew up in the Dallas, Texas area. She began working in the adult industry in January 2005. The person that got her into porn was her best friend, Taryn Thomas. She was married to performer and director Pat Myne. In April 2008, Blue was the Penthouse Pet of the Month and signed an exclusive performance contract with Wicked Pictures. Blue appears in the music video for the 2010 single "Telephone" by Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé. She also appears, alongside fellow Wicked Pictures contract star Kaylani Lei, in the Free Speech Coalition's April 2010 "All-Star Anti-Piracy PSA" She appears in the eleventh episode of the season 4 of Sons Of Anarchy

Azlea Antistia is a female erotic actress who made her debut in 1998.

Bobbi Eden (born January 4, 1980, in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands) is a Dutch pornographic actress and international magazine model. Eden was the runner-up for the Dutch Penthouse Pet of the Year. She had also modeled for magazines including Club, Men Only, and Soho. She appeared with Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten in the video for his single "Watch Out". In the video, a tiny Corsten races around in a model racing car while Bobbi looms overhead with the remote control. Eden has written columns for the magazines Passie, Chick and Panorama. During the 2010 World Cup, Eden attracted media attention after her June 28 Twitter announcement, in which she promised to provide oral sex for all of her Twitter followers if the Netherlands team won the World Cup. The promise led to a large increase in the number of her followers.

Sarah Blake (born August 21, 1980 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA) is a pornographic actress who entered the industry in around 2003, and specializes in fetish work. When Blake first entered the adult scene she only intended to dabble in the area for thirty days. Blake also worked for Steve Lightspeed for a couple years under the name "Little Troublemaker" and also did work for FTV Girls. She stated in an interview that "My plan was to go to LA, have a wild adventure, and come back home and go to college. When I went to LA, everything was fantastic and I ended up staying and moving out there." In a May 14, 2008 post on her website, Blake indicated that she had taken a several month hiatus to have breast augmentation surgery.

Shay Laren is an American nude and bondage model and was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for June 2006. Laren was an army brat, growing up on military bases at which her step-father was stationed. She worked in a boutique prior to entering the adult film industry. Laren was divorced prior to the age of 20; she stated that she told her husband she was getting a divorce during his second tour of duty in Iraq after learning of his affair with a colleague.

Bunny Luv (born in Sacramento, California) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and director. Luv entered the porn industry in 1999. In 2000, Luv married producer and director Devan Sapphire. Since 2004, Luv has directed films for Digital Playground, using the alias Celeste.

Chloe Jones (nee Melinda Dee Jones, June 17, 1975 – June 4, 2005) was an American pornographic actress. Melinda Dee Jones was born and grew up in Silsbee, Texas. After graduating from Silsbee High School in 1994, she became a Playboy model and pornographic actress. Jones was the Penthouse magazine Pet of the Month in April 1998, and she crossed over into adult movies in 2001. She then retired from the adult industry in 2004. Jones performed in 18 films during this time. Jones had gained considerable fame as a nude model and was a well-known figure in the adult world at the time of her retirement. Jones was bisexual. After deciding to enter the hardcore porn industry, she signed an exclusive contract with adult film company New Sensations, followed by another contract with Vivid Entertainment in February 2003. Both associations were brief (her contract with Vivid lasted five months), and rumors circulated about Jones' "difficult nature." She was allegedly released by Vivid for her use of prescription drugs, although specific details are elusive. Before Jones was able to make her comeback, however, her health began to fail. She died in 2005. Her death was attributed to liver failure

Gia Darling is a transsexual adult film actress, director, and producer. She owns and operates Gia Darling Entertainment. A self-described "homebody," she is content to spend quiet evenings at home reading a good book in the company of her dogs, Precious and Preston. Darling's movies are now exclusively distributed through adult entertainment distributor and producer Third World Media. She won the Transsexual Performer of the Year AVN Award in 2006.

India is a pornographic actress, singer and rap artist. She began working as an adult actress in around 1998 and has since appeared in over 200 videos. For five years she was an exclusive contract girl for the production company Video Team, and she has an exclusive sex toy line, manufactured by California Exotic Novelties. India owns the record company Black Widow Entertainment, and in 2006 she released her debut solo album Role Play. She had previously been a member of several girl groups; her first album, Hi Naturally, was released in 1994 when she was in the group Harmony Innocents. In July 2002 she was profiled on VH1's All Access hip-hop/porn special. In 2004 her vocals featured in the movie Walking Tall, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

Katja Kassin (born September 24, 1979 in Leipzig, East Germany) is the stage name of a hardcore pornographic actress. Kassin was 10 years old when the Berlin Wall came down. She permanently moved to the Los Angeles area in late 2004 and married a fellow male performer in January 2004. On June 1, 2007 she received breast augmentation surgery in New York City. The 350cc silicone implants were inserted through the nipple and under the muscle. Her first shoot after recovery was on June 26, 2007.

Ice La Fox (born February 28, 1983 in Miami, Florida) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and nude model. Ice La Fox is of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. La Fox was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is the adult film actress and director Angela DeAngelo. Fox took a year off from the business until July 2008, when she returned with DD-cup breast implants.

Jeanna Fine (born in New York, NY, U.S.) is a pornographic actress and erotic dancer. Adult film actress Siobhan Hunter encouraged Fine to go into adult films. Adult film actress Barbara Dare remarked how "fine" Jeanna was, which prompted Jeanna to adopt that as her surname. She was romantically involved with fellow pornographic actress Savannah. Fine began in the adult movie industry as a blonde-haired punk-girl when she was 21 in 1986. She made 50 movies between 1986 and 1989. She re-emerged as a brunette in 1990. According to Fine's official adult film bio, Fine's sex film career was noted to have several large gaps between performing such as during the pregnancy and birth of her son. Fine has retired from the adult film business with her last noted film "Deep Inside Sunset Thomas" released in 2003. She has appeared in no new films since, although several compilations of unreleased content featuring Fine have been released since 2003. Fine was inducted in the Adult Video News Hall of Fame in 1998. She is also in the X-Rated Critic's Association's and Legends of Erotica Halls of Fame. Fine appeared briefly in the film The Boondock Saints, as a dancer working the adult parlor

Taylor Hayes (born January 14, 1975) is a former American pornographic actress. She took her pseudonym from Taylor Hayes, the fictional character played by Hunter Tylo on the The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera of which a teenaged Hayes was an enthusiastic devotee. Hayes was featured in Penthouse in 1994. She also was featured in a Hustler centerfold in 1995. Later that same year Taylor moved to Los Angeles and began working for adult studio VCA Pictures. After a couple of adult film productions with VCA, she left to become one of the feature girls of gonzo pornographer Adam Glasser (also known as Seymore Butts). Vivid Entertainment signed Hayes to an exclusive contract in 1997 during which time she made more than a dozen feature films. Simultaneous with her Vivid engagement, Hayes also secured a recurring role on Playboy TV and further was depicted together with Jenna Jameson and Savanna Samson in the south of France in Vanity Fair magazine. After several contentious years as a Vivid Girl, in 2002 Hayes retired from adult films. AVN Magazine nearly contemporaneously included Hayes in their list of the "Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time". Hayes has made several

Audrey Hollander (born November 4, 1979 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American pornographic actress. Her first scene was in the film More Dirty Debutantes 268 with Ed Powers. As of December 2009, she has appeared in over 294 productions and is credited as co-director for the "Otto and Audrey Destroy the World" series of films. She won the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2006. Hollander and Otto Bauer created their own porn production called "Supercore", distributed by Mach2 Entertainment. She made her directorial debut on the Mach2 movie pASSionate LOVE. In April 2007, she and Bauer agreed to place their catalog of Supercore movies on American Vice.

Cristina Bella (born November 29, 1981 in Budapest) is the stage name of a Hungarian pornographic actress. Bella worked as a hairdresser before entering the adult film industry at the age of 18.

Keisha (born October 25, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an erotic dancer and pornographic actress. Keisha attended Westchester High School (Westchester, California) and graduated in 1984 at the age of 17. She's multi-ethnic; from her father's side she is Spanish, Mexican, and American Indian, and on her mother's side, she's Swedish and English. She says that she was "always very sexual and even before I lost my virginity (at the age of 14), I had a reputation as a slut". She had been employed as a legal secretary, but wanted to do something more exciting so she took a job as a phone sex operator. In February 1986, the owner of the phone sex company where she worked took her to the XRCO Awards, which led to her start in porn. "People kept coming up to me and asking me if I was an actress and when I’d say no, they said 'Oh, you should be.' But what really hooked me was that when Traci Lords came onstage, a girlfriend of mine from the fantasy phone call company, leaned over to me and said, 'You see that girl there, she drives a Ferrari.' Good sex and a lot of money, that sounded great to me". After the awards show, she talked to everyone she could who knew anything about

Jennifer "Jennie" Ketcham (born February 22, 1983) is a writer, American reality television personality, blogger, artist, and former pornographic actress and film director under the name Penny Flame. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tyra Banks Show, The View, Entertainment Tonight, Extra and Lifechangers to discuss sex addiction, and her blog has been featured on Last Call with Carson Daly. At age 18, Ketcham, dissatisfied with waitressing and barista jobs, answered an ad in a San Diego paper, through which she entered the pornographic film business. She chose the Penny Flame pseudonym as a combination of The Beatles song "Penny Lane" and her marijuana smoking habit. She appeared in well over 200 pornographic features, from 2002 through 2009. In 2005, Ketcham directed an instructional video for Shane's World Studios. She also directed the pornographic films Shane's World: Girls Night Out 1-3, Blazed and Confused 1-3 and Penny Flame's Out of Control. In 2008, she signed a deal with Vivid Entertainment and Tristan Taormino to direct her own line of movies under the studio’s sex education imprint, Vivid-Ed; the first film was "Penny Flame's Expert Guide to Handjobs",

Tiina-Rakel Liekki (born Tiina-Rakel Koponen, September 20, 1979 in Suonenjoki) is a Finnish artist, freelance journalist, writer, director and producer, and former pornographic actress. Liekki is one of the best-known Finnish adult filmmakers, and was dubbed "the apostle of porn" in an article by City. In 2002, Liekki performed in Rakelin ja Lassin Panokoulu sex guidance videos together with Lassi Lindqvist as part of PornoStara television show on MoonTV channel. She had previously tested sex toys in the same show. She also worked for ATV on their Naked News and other adult oriented night shows. After that she worked as a producer for a Finnish digital television channel Sextv. Liekki also directed the porn film Rakel Liekki – Mun leffa. Liekki retired from porn in 2005 and started hosting her own talk show Yö Rakelin kanssa (Night with Rachel). The talk show aired on Subtv television channel. She has since made guest appearances in other TV shows, such as Maria!, Uutisvuoto and Hurtta ja stara, based on BBC's The Underdog Show. In 2001, Liekki was featured in the music video for the song Hardboiled and Still Hellbound by Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene, in 2007 in the

Renee Perez is a pornographic actress and adult model. She was named Penthouse Pet of the Month for November 2005. Perez started in the adult industry at the age of 19. While working for Penthouse, Perez worked under the name Renee Diaz. Perez, originally from Las Vegas, appeared in Hustler prior to her appearance in Penthouse. She was signed to a contract with Ninn Worx Studios and performed exclusively for director Michael Ninn until her contract came to an end in October 2008. Her first boy/girl scene under the contract was for House of Perez 2. She started dancing in January 2008, touring several Spearmint Rhino clubs as part of her contract. At the end of her contract feature dancing contract with Spearmint Rhino Perez made a few feature dancer appearances throughout 2010 at popular clubs like Deja Vu Showgirls in Las Vegas. That same year a new adult DVD surfaced which featured Perez in one of her only boy / girl performances called I Love Renee Perez.

Nikki Benz (born December 11, 1981) is the stage name of a pornographic actress and Penthouse Pet who was selected as the 2011 Pet of the Year. Benz resides in Los Angeles, California, USA. Nikki Benz entered the adult film industry by contacting an adult film director shortly before her 21st birthday. She signed with Pleasure Productions in January 2003 and made her first on-screen sex scene in Strap On Sally 20 with Gina Lynn, and her first boy-girl scene with Ben English in The Sweetest Thing. After completing her contract, Benz moved to Los Angeles and signed with Jill Kelly Productions in September 2004. Benz signed a contract with TeraVision in September 2005. Benz has been featured in many popular adult magazines including Penthouse, High Society, Genesis, Fox, OUI, Cheri, Hustler, Club and Club International. She is the Penthouse Pet of the Month for April 2010, and was also the magazine's cover girl and feature in the May 2008 issue. Benz was named Penthouse Pet of the Year 2011. She hosted a show on KSEX called Contract Superstars alongside Lacie Heart, Ashley Steele, Stormy Daniels and Tyler Faith, but quit citing "time constraints". Along with Lisa Ann and Sean

Danielle Foxxx (born November 27, 1979 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an American post-op transsexual pornographic film actress. Danielle Foxxx was the only child of a Brazilian mother and a German-American Father. Her parents moved to the U.S. when she was 14 years old. She started crossdressing when she was 16 and subsequently decided to undergo hormone replacement therapy with her mother's support. She claims she realized she was bisexual only after her affair with Ariana Jollee who, according to her, is the first cisgender woman with whom she had sex. Foxxx looks up to many trans women such as Candis Cayne, Erica Andrews, Mimi Marks, Monica Munro, Vicki Richter and Roberta Close. Foxxx used to be known as a drag queen named Holly Gramm. She worked in a place called Diva's as a bartender/dancer. During that time, she was Miss Gay San Francisco when she was a drag queen. She made several appearances on Maury and Ricki Lake. She even hosted some Ricki Lake episodes about drag queens. On one episode of Ricki Lake, she said she was going to give up drag for good. Foxxx is a well known transsexual film actress in the U.S. pornographic industry. She was nominated for an AVN Award in

Jada Fire is a former American pornographic actress. On February 2, 2012 she announced that she was retiring from pornography. In 2008, she played the role of Condi (a parody of then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) in the Hustler production Who's Nailin' Paylin?. On January 11, 2011, Fire made a brief cameo in episode "Punching Water" of TNT police drama Southland, as an L.A. gang member's girlfriend awoken by a police search.

Jessica Darlin (born March 22, 1976 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a former American pornographic actress. Adopted as a child, Darlin grew up in Coral Springs, Florida and went to a private school and describes herself in her teen years as "pretty much the little party girl. I was defiantly [sic] the town nympho." She met Luis Cypher when she was 17 at a concert and they got married when she was 21. She began dancing in a strip club when she turned 18. She says that "I drove by a strip club and said to my now husband, I can do that." During her time dancing in the club, she met various feature dancers who had already done porn films and heard about the business. When she was 21, Darlin and her husband moved to Los Angeles to break into the adult film business. On her first visit to Jim South's office, she had barely finished filling out the info sheet and presented her STD test results when South received a call from a director advising that the actress he wanted did not show up. Darlin took part in the scene, which was a three-way scene with anal sex with Julie Rage and Ian Daniels for a film named Sexual Initiations. She signed with Elegant Angel after about two months in the

Jessica Jaymes (born March 8, 1979) is an American pornographic actress. Jaymes' adult film career began in the summer of 2002. Her stage name is a combination of her real first name, Jessica, and the first name of her then-lover, James. In 2004 she became Hustler's first contract model and the "Hustler Honey of the Year". In August 2008 she was the Penthouse Pet of the Month. Jaymes played a small role in two episodes of the television series Weeds, and made an appearance in the VH1 reality show Celebrity Rehab Sober House.

Kinzie Kenner (born July 22, 1984 in California) is an American pornographic actress and go-go dancer. She entered the adult film industry in 2003 at the age of 19. In fall 2005 she underwent breast implant surgery going to a D cup. In 2008 she was one of several porn stars to appear in a music video by the rapper Necro for his song, "Who's Your Daddy?".

Ronald Jeremy Hyatt (born March 12, 1953), usually called Ron Jeremy, is an American adult film actor. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", he was ranked by AVN at number one in their "The 50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list. Jeremy has also appeared in non-pornographic films, such as The Chase, Orgazmo, They Bite, The Boondock Saints, Crank: High Voltage, Girls Gone Dead and 54. He has gained some notoriety for being capable of autofellatio (which he first demonstrated on-screen in Inside Seka). Ron Jeremy was born in Queens, New York to a middle-class Jewish family; his father, Arnold, was a physicist and his mother a book editor who served in the O.S.S. during World War II, as she spoke fluent German and French. Jeremy attended Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, where former CIA director George Tenet, actor Reginald VelJohnson and New York State attorney Todd Silverblatt were his classmates. He earned a bachelor's degree in education and theatre and a master's degree in special education from Queens College in New York. He taught special-education classes in the New York City area and was a substitute teacher for regular classes. Jeremy left the teaching profession (he called it his

Tracey Adams (born June 7, 1959) is a former American pornographic actress. She appeared in over 300 movies during the 1980s and 90s, and is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. Adams attended community college near Baltimore, Maryland and became a radio disc jockey. Before entering porn she had attended broadcasting school, and one of the jobs she had was the midnight-to-6:00 a.m. disc jockey spot at the University of California-San Diego radio station. Uninterested in sex with men as a teenager, she did not lose her virginity until age twenty. According to a 1991 article in the Los Angeles Times. Although she is free-thinking, Adams is anything but the free-spirited sexual athlete her fans like to imagine. She worries about crime and overpopulation and drinks two vodkas medicinally each night to help her sleep. She sponsors two poverty-stricken children in foreign countries. Her rented bungalow in West Los Angeles might be the home of any anxious, PBS-watching, middle-level executive except for the catalog of her sex tapes hidden behind a wood plank on an upper shelf in a back room.

Jazmin (Bengali: জ্যাজ়মিন) is a Bangladesh-born American pornographic actress, and the first porn star of Bangladeshi descent. Jazmin is the daughter of first generation Bangladeshi-Americans who migrated from the port city of Chittagong. She made her first appearance in the adult entertainment industry in 2003, and, as of 2006, has acted in over sixty adult films. She starred in Bangladesh Booty, the first-ever internationally released porn movie to feature a Bangladeshi in the female lead.

Candy Barr (July 6, 1935 – December 30, 2005) was an American stripper, burlesque exotic dancer, actress in one pornographic movie, and model in men's magazines of the mid-20th century. During the 1950s, she received nationwide attention for her stripping career in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas; her troubles with the law; shooting her estranged second husband; and being arrested and sentenced to a prison term for drug possession, as well as her relationships with Mickey Cohen and Jack Ruby. After serving three years in prison, Barr began a new life in South Texas. She briefly returned to stripping in the late 1960s, posed for Oui magazine in the 1970s, and then retired. In the early 1980s, Barr was acknowledged in the magazine Texas Monthly as one of history's "perfect Texans," along with such luminaries as Lady Bird Johnson. She was born Juanita Dale Slusher in Edna, Texas, the youngest of five children of Elvin Forest "Doc" Slusher (August 19, 1909-May 2, 1969) and Sadie Mae Sumner (October 1, 1908-March 11, 1945). Her siblings were Leota (born 1927), Keleta Pauline "Kay" (born 1928), Gary (1931–72), and Forest Slusher (1933–2003). After her mother's death by falling from a

Dave Cummings (born David Charles Conners on March 13, 1940 in Saratoga Springs, New York, U.S.) is considered the oldest American still-performing professional porn star. Cummings' background is unusual for a typical porn actor: he has both a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and a Masters Degree in Public Administration; in addition, he spent over 25 years as an officer in the United States Army, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was married for 22 years and has four grandchildren. He was almost 55 years old before he launched his acting career and is now regarded as a major adult porn star with well over 500 adult films and a reputation for sexual stamina. Cummings claims that he only uses viagra when doing back-to-back sex scenes or when working with very demanding directors. He was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2007 and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2011. "I find the adult entertainment world to be a very rewarding one, filled with caring people who fully realize that sex is a totally natural God-given gift to be enjoyed. I like helping people understand that it's normal for them to have sexual cravings, and to enjoy harmless fantasies and healthy

John Allen Stagliano (born November 29, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois), also known as Buttman, is an American entrepreneur, pornographic actor, producer and director, who founded and owns the Evil Angel pornographic film studio. Stagliano grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and attended high school from 1965 to 1969. He enrolled in college, but dropped out in 1969 for several semesters. He then went back to college and studied subjects including English, journalism, and engineering, before transferring to UCLA to major in economics. He originally planned to get an economics Ph.D. and become a professor. He then switched to studying theater, playwriting, modern, and jazz dance, partly because there were more women in those classes. In the 1970s, he wrote erotic fiction for a small newspaper, and did some softcore modeling. He made his debut in a hardcore pornographic film in an 8mm loop in 1974. In 1979, he was looking for dancing jobs in Hollywood. He replied to an advertisement in the Daily Variety looking for male strippers for the new Chippendales show. He performed with the group four or five nights a week for the next four years. In 1982, when he was 30, he began publishing a small

Johnni Black (b. January 14, 1968, Calumet City, Illinois) is the stage name of a former American pornographic actress actress, adult model, and film director. She won the 1998 AVN Award for Best New Starlet. She earned an advanced degree in Psychology from University of Illinois in 1990, after which she enlisted in the U.S. Army.

Julia Bond (born February 26, 1987 in Long Beach, California, United States) is an American pornographic actress and singer/rapper. Originally from Long Beach, California, Bond entered the adult film industry in 2005 when she turned 18. Bond appeared in the May 18, 2005 "Jay Walking" segment of The Tonight Show. In 2005 she collaborated with DJ Bijal to release a pornography-enhanced mixtape dubbed Sex Sells. Bond appeared in a July 26, 2006 episode of The Jerry Springer Show titled "A Porn Star and an Angry Mom!".

Kyla Cole (born Martina Jacová, Slovak: [jatsovaː]; November 10, 1978) is a Slovak glamour model, Penthouse Pet and former television presenter. Kyla Cole was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia (present Slovakia), and was her parents' first-born child. Cole began her career in 1999, after winning the "Ms. Monticello Raceway Pageant", while working as a counselor at the Camp Na-Sho-Pa summer camp Bloomingburg, in upstate New York. She has also been a part owner of a modeling agency. Cole was named Penthouse Pet of the Month in March 2000. Within a year, she had appeared on the covers of dozens of men's magazines. She was offered the position of Penthouse Pet of the Year, but had to decline because she was unable to obtain a US work visa. In May 2001 Cole was invited to participate as a surprise guest at the season finale of season 1 of Big Brother in Norway. She was invited because one of the male housemates had proclaimed Cole was his dream woman after seeing pictures of her, which had been posted on the walls in the house by the female housemates to cheer up another male housemate. The producers of the TV show hints of Cole's surprise appearance when they, to the male housemates

Marie Luv (born November 1, 1981) is an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer and glamour model. Born in Hacienda Heights, California, her first job was a cashier on an Air Force base commissary at 14. After graduating high school from Cheviot Hills (Los Angeles, CA), she was a mainstream model who was approached by representatives from Hustler magazine. Through them, she started off with seven movies under the stage name of "Destiny". After her initial work was discovered by her family and friends, she ceased doing it until she got the support of her mother. As Marie Luv, she re-entered the industry, beginning with pictorials then working into hardcore pornographic movies. She is the sister of gay porn actor Nick Da'Kannon.

Marilyn Chambers (April 22, 1952 – April 12, 2009) was an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer, model, actress and vice-presidential candidate. She was best known for her 1972 hardcore film debut Behind the Green Door and her 1980 pornographic film Insatiable. She was voted #6 on the list of Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time by AVN, and ranked as one of Playboy's Top 100 Sex Stars of the Century in 1999. Although she was primarily known for her adult film work, she made a successful transition to mainstream projects. She has been called "porn's most famous crossover." Born Marilyn Ann Briggs in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised in Westport, Connecticut in a middle-class household. It is often reported that she was born in Westport, however in a 2007 interview Chambers confirmed she was born in Providence but grew up in Westport. Her father was in advertising and her mother was a nurse. She was the youngest of three children, including a brother, Martin Briggs (keyboardist for 1960s Boston Band, The Remains), and a sister, Jann Smith. Chambers attended Burr Farms Elementary School, Hillspoint Elementary School, Long Lots Junior High School, and Staples High School. Her

McKenzie Lee (born May 16, 1979, in Leicester, England) is the stage name of a pornographic actress. Lee has stated that her mother was "always very sexually open" and "a nymphomaniac". She also has said that her father was "a very well-to-do straight-laced kind of guy" and that he "raised me ever since I was kinda five years old". She started dancing at a strip club in Birmingham, then later moving to dance at clubs in London. She worked a total of six years as a stripper. She also worked for a time as a cheerleader for Leicester City F.C. Lee started with making adult movies in Europe, filming with firms such as Private Media and "almost everyone in the UK that's worth anything to work for". She was signed to Playboy UK and hosted Night Callers, as well British satellite TV show Babe Cast. Lee then went to the United States, first to appear on Night Calls on New Year's Eve 2005, then to act as interviewer for Playboy at the 2005 AVN Awards. There she met Jenna Jameson. Her first American release was Raw and Uncut Berlin, shot in the German capital; her first films shot on American soil were Jack's Playground 28 and Jack's Teen America Mission 9. Lee was signed as a contract girl

Michelle Barrett (born July 17, 1981) is a British glamour model, adult film actress, and entrepreneur who has starred in 219 adult movies. Throughout her films she has been credited under several variations of her name, including Michelle B., Michelle Louise, Michelle Barratt, and Shelly Louise. She lives in the city of Sheffield, in the north of England and travels to the US to shoot videos. Typically, she'll fly out for a few months of the year and perform in 1 or 2 scenes per day until she flies back to England. Appearances include Red Hot TV, as well as the adult channel Television X and was part of their 15th birthday celebratory photoshoot. Barret has worked with several well-known photographers, including Suze Randall. In addition she's been featured in mainstream design outlets such as Playboy's Newsstand Specials.

Pierre Woodman (born April 29, 1963 in Auvergne, France) is a pornographic film director. He is the creator of more than 65 pornographic films, more than 2,000 hardcore scenes, around 1,500 photosets and more than 7,000 castings. Woodman began working at 16, taking such jobs as bartender, salesman and store clerk. He joined the army at age 17, and later became a policeman. In 1986, he started a career as a fashion and TV photographer. In 1989, he took part in launching the magazine Hot Video, as a reporter. Beginning in 1992, he worked for the Private Media Group, Inc., for which he made several big budget movies, such as The Pyramid (1.2 million USD), Tatiana (600,000 USD), Riviera (450,000 USD). In 1997, he launched his series "Casting X" (see below), which is now the biggest selling series in the X-rated category in the world. In 1999, faced with a wave of "Gonzo" genre videos, Woodman began to produce and release his Superfuckers series for Private, which ran to 12 Chapters. At the end of the year, he received an invitation from Larry Flynt, owner of LFP, Inc. and a millionaire publisher of the magazine Hustler, the second largest adult magazine periodical in the US after

Shelley Lubben (born May 18, 1968) is an American former pornographic actress who performed under the stage name of Roxy. After she left the sex industry, Lubben became a born-again Christian and anti-pornography activist. She is the Executive Director of the Pink Cross Foundation, which reaches out to women and men in pornography and speaks in public forums, sharing about the hazardous working conditions that she experienced in the porn industry, which include her personal experiences contracting genital herpes and HPV, which led to early cervical cancer. Lubben was born on May 18, 1968 in Pasadena, California. In an interview with Howard Stern and Deseret News, Lubben stated that she was sexually abused at the age of nine and worked as a prostitute from age 18 to 26 to support herself and her child. She entered the adult film industry, while working as a prostitute, when she was 24 years old. During her time in the sex industry, she contracted herpes and HPV, which led to cervical cancer. During and after her life in the sex industry, she battled alcohol and drug addictions. An overview of Lubben's life has been featured in the documentaries Traffic Control and Out of the

SaRenna Lee (born February 17, 1971) is an American big-bust adult model and stripper. During most of the 1990s Lee appeared as a model in hundreds of adult-oriented magazines that were published both in the USA and in Europe. From 1993 through 1996 she toured as a featured headliner at strip clubs throughout the United States. Starting in 2002, SaRenna took time away from her career to start a family. Lee has done no acknowledged male-female hardcore pornography, however she has done several explicit lesbian films. She has also featured in numerous nude photo shoots. Lee acted in a mainstream B-movie, the suspense anthology thriller Evil Streets (1998), directed by Terry Wickham. In the film, Lee plays Misty, a stripper who is stalked by an obsessed fan.

Devon (born March 28, 1977) is an American pornographic actress. Devon was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She began her career at age 19 as a stripper at Al's Diamond Cabaret in Reading, Pennsylvania. As a young girl, her dream was to become a gymnast. However, due to her height she was not able to participate at a competitive level, so she was forced to look to other careers. Her first foray into the adult film industry came in 1998, when she appeared in the film New Breed. It was immediately after making this movie that she went to the Vivid Entertainment offices and told them she wanted to be a star. She also appeared in a photo spread for Stuff, a men's magazine. She was the Penthouse Pet of the month in January 2001. After her Vivid contract, Devon signed with Digital Playground. In 2004 Devon appeared in the first WMV-HD DVD porn movie ever made, Island Fever 3, filmed on Tahiti and Bora Bora. Devon has performed with over thirty-five male stars and her first and only anal scene was in 2005's Intoxicated. On July 31, 2005 she appeared in the HBO series, Entourage, appearing as herself in Season 2, Episode 9's "I Love You Too." The same year, she co-starred in the porn film

Jenna Jameson (born Jenna Marie Massoli; April 9, 1974) is an American entrepreneur and former pornographic actress, who has been called the world's most famous adult-entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn." She started acting in erotic videos in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamour model. By 1996, she had won the "top newcomer" award from each of the three major adult movie organizations. She has since won more than 20 adult video awards, and has been inducted into both the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and Adult Video News (AVN) Halls of Fame. Jameson founded the adult-entertainment company ClubJenna in 2000 with Jay Grdina, whom she later married and divorced. Initially a single website, this business expanded into managing similar websites of other stars and began producing sexually explicit videos in 2001. The first such movie, Briana Loves Jenna (with Briana Banks), was named at the 2003 AVN Awards as the best-selling and best-renting pornographic title for 2002. By 2005, ClubJenna had revenues of US$30 million with profits estimated at half that. Advertisements for her site and films, often bearing her picture, have towered on a 48-foot-tall

Scott Styles (born on June 19, 1961 in Rockford, Illinois) is a former NASA rocket scientist and currently an American pornographic actor. He currently resides in California. Styles grew up in Illinois, Michigan and Texas, playing sports, and doing well at academicly. Always athletic and active, he keeps his body in excellent shape, while his education and intelligence earned him a bachelor's and master's degree in physics. This earned him a job as a space shuttle engineer working in Mission Operations at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. After three years, he took his hobby of fitness to professional status by becoming a personal fitness trainer, writer, and instructor, running his new business, and quitting his "day job" when it became lucrative enough at the six-month mark. After three years of his fitness career, in a dramatic career change, he moved from Houston, Texas to Los Angeles, California, and entered the porn business. Scott has appeared on the cover of Advocate Men's Magazine, was Advocate Men's Man of the Year in 1997, and was in Playgirl magazine. He has done work for the Playboy Channel, Spice TV, Playgirl TV, and has been in numerous mainstream "B" movies,

Tylene Buck (born March 7, 1972) is an American pornographic actress, model, former professional wrestler and valet. She is perhaps best known for her stint in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Major Gunns. She had a brief wrestling career that started in late-1999 in World Championship Wrestling as one of the nWo girls. She was among several other fitness models who came to ringside with the nWo. She soon left the nWo to become a backstage interviewer, but that was also short lived. She then became "Major Gunns" and joined the Misfits In Action stable led by General Rection.Her most notable feuds were with The Filthy Animals' manager Tygress and Miss Hancock. Gunns defeated Hancock at New Blood Rising in a mud match. On November 12, 2000, Major Gunns betrayed the Misfits and joined Team Canada by throwing a towel in on behalf of Rection, costing him the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship against Lance Storm. She spent some time in Lance Storm's Team Canada where Storm would not allow her to show off her body like the Misfits did. She eventually turned heel and stayed with the group over returning to The Misfits. Storm and Gunns went on to feud with The Cat

Vaniity is a transsexual pornographic film actress. She was born in Uruapan, Mexico on July 26, 1973. Her family migrated to Sunnyvale, northern California when she was seven years old. Vaniity comes from a large family; she has six brothers and four sisters. She is of Purepecha descent. According to Vaniity, she was a feminine boy who subconsciously knew he would grow up to be a girl; "I dreamed of being a wonder woman of sorts, I have always admired strong women, especially brunette women, I secretly wore my sisters' dresses, openly played with Barbies, played makeup artist & fashion consultant to my mother and sister." She is currently a pre-op transwoman and does not plan to have sex reassignment surgery. Her main reason for the decision is the fear that she will lose genital sensitivity and never have an orgasm ever again. She has appeared on The Man Show, Pornucopia, The Howard Stern Show and Sexcetera

Jamie Lynn (born February 25, 1981) is an American pornographic actress who was chosen as Penthouse Pet of the Month in 2005 and later as Pet of the Year in 2006. Lynn is from Northridge, Los Angeles, California. She started working in the adult industry in 2003 after the company she was working for went bankrupt. Wanting a change of pace, she answered an ad looking for actors and models for nude work. After working for eight months with various amateur photographers, she met up with Penthouse Pet Jesse Capelli, who referred Lynn to agent Cam Smith. In quick order she did a two-day test shoot for Penthouse. She was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for January 2005 and the Penthouse Pet of the Year for 2006. She started her career with FTV (First Time Videos). When asked if she enjoys sex with women, Lynn's answer was "No, not really. I enjoy making out with women. That's what I do." She was named by High Times magazine as their first Ganja Goddess.

Leah Luv (born July 28, 1984) is the stage name of a retired American pornographic actress and director. Luv started in adult films at age 19 in July 2003 and performed in her first sex scene for director Ed Powers. Although she has portrayed the image of a schoolgirl teenager throughout her career, Leah had a son when she was 17. She declared that she entered the porn industry because she was diagnosed with cancer and needed a partial hysterectomy, and the porn industry gave her the chance to take care of her health problems. She is bisexual.

Vince Vouyer, born John Alex Lefom on June 1, 1966, in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, is a pornographic actor (porn star) and director. He is sometimes credited as Vince, Vince Voyeur, Vince Voyer or Vince Voyuer. Vouyer moved to Los Angeles, California in 1989. He spent his first years in the western U.S. as a fork lift mechanic by day, and an adult strip dancer by night. He became involved in making pornographic movies after meeting porn starlet Alicia Rio at a party. He appeared in his first sex scene on March 13, 1994. He has appeared in over 1,000 adult films since his debut in 1994. When Vouyer first entered porn, he was known for several years for his very long hair, large penis size and chiseled body. These days he keeps a short hairstyle. For many years, he worked mainly for Anabolic and Diabolic, porn companies that are connected to each other. After leaving Anabolic/Diabolic, he directed his own line of videos for Red Light District Video. Red Light District is the company that distributed the Paris Hilton porn video titled 1 Night in Paris. A scene directed by Vince Vouyer was featured in the special features on the 1 Night in Paris DVD, and was also included in

Alexis Amore (born December 29, 1978) is the stage name of a Peruvian pornographic actress, exotic dancer and model. In January 2003, she re-entered the industry after a short break, and signed exclusively with Jill Kelly Productions (JKP) and began in February 2003. She eventually left the company and, in June 2004 she signed an acting and directing deal with Anabolic Video under which she would direct eight to 10 movies and star in six films a year. This made her Anabolic's first 'contract girl'. In 2005 she became the Video Team spokeswoman and exclusive contract performer. Alexis Amore is also known as the “Peruvian Princess,”. She was to be the central talent for Video Team's Ethnicity Films line, which specialized in Latin, African-American and interracial titles. She is to represent Video Team at press events, signings and meet-and-greet shows with fans. At this time she had over 300 films to credit in the adult industry. Since early 2006, Amore has infrequently written for AVN Insider, is a contract girl for Metro/Video Team, and has a sex-toys contract with California Exotic Novelties.

Eva Angelina (born on March 14, 1985) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and adult model. She began her career at 18 and has won several industry awards, including the 2008 AVN Award for Best Actress (Video). Angelina was born in Orange County, California. She is of Cuban, Chinese, English and Irish descent. She has said that she came from a "very wealthy" background, but that changed when she turned 13, and her family "pretty much lost everything". Angelina entered the porn industry by answering an advertisement in the newspapers; her first scene was for the Shane's World series. She took her alias as a reference to Evangeline. She was known for wearing glasses during her performances. She had said on film shoots she gets sent home to get them if she forgets to bring them with her, and during a visit to one AVN Awards show she wasn't recognized as she wasn't wearing her glasses. They are prescription glasses, as she is "very blind". In late 2005, she considered joining the US Navy. She has also done mainstream work, appearing as an extra in shows such as 7th Heaven and Cousin Skeeter. In 2010, she was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top female stars in porn. Eva

John Leslie Nuzzo (January 25, 1945 – December 5, 2010) was a prolific porn actor who went on to have a long-running career as a producer and director of adult movies. Usually credited under the name John Leslie, he has also worked under a variety of pseudonyms, including John Leslie Dupre, Frederick Watson, and Lenny Lovely. Beginning with 1973's Sensuous Delights, Leslie was a performer in almost 300 adult films. He won numerous awards during his days as a performer. He appeared with some of the era's most noted porn stars, including Seka, Kay Parker, and Annette Haven. His most noteworthy roles were in Talk Dirty To Me (1980), Nothing To Hide (1981), and Talk Dirty To Me, Part II (1982). He was one of the first porn actors to make the transition from performing to directing, beginning with 1987's Nightshift Nurses. Since then he directed more than 90 adult movies, including The Chameleon (1989), Curse of the Catwoman (1992), Dog Walker (1994), and Drop Sex (1997), along with the Voyeur, Fresh Meat and Crack Her Jack series. He won many awards for his work behind the cameras as well. Though much of his recent work, in keeping with current trends in adult video, has been in the

Racquel Darrian (born Kelly Jackson on July 21, 1968 in Hutchinson, Kansas) is an American former pornographic actress. She started her career as a nude model posing for lesbian-themed photoshoots. When she crossed over to adult film, she initially performed only in "all-girl" scenes. As offers increased for her to participate in heterosexual scenes, she began working onscreen with Derrick Lane (whom she married in 1994). She signed an exclusive contract with Vivid Video; eventually tiring of constantly working with Lane, she insisted on working with other men. Darrian divorced from Derrick Lane in 2000. Darrian is sometimes referred to as the "brunette goddess of porn". She was the October 1990 Penthouse Pet of the Month, as Kelly Jackson, and in Playboy's 1996 pictorial "Strippers". She currently lives in Las Vegas.

Randy West (born Andrew Jay Abrams; October 12, 1947) is an American pornographic actor. West grew up in New York City, and later moved to South Florida. He originally hoped to play professional baseball (though he did play baseball for the University of Miami), but he instead decided to pursue a career as a singer. He was lead singer for several rock bands over the course of ten years, and also worked as a nude art model. He then moved to California in 1979. Randy was also a member of Chippendale's dance company, and worked as stripper at private events from 1980 to 1992. For porn he went with the name Randy West instead of his original name. West began his porn career in 1978, in the film Mystique. In August 1980 he posed as the centerfold model in Playgirl magazine; he was the first person who posed with an erection. Later he also was cast as Robert Redford's body double in the film Indecent Proposal. He has worked with numerous porn actresses early on in their careers, including Seka, Jenna Jameson and Tera Patrick. He was the first male performer to work with Victoria Paris and Ashlyn Gere. West's sexual performance has been likened to that of a "human pile driver." He has

Rebecca Bardoux (born August 18, 1963 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American pornographic actress. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2007. She made her debut in the adult film industry in 1992 at age 29. Bardoux identifies as bisexual.

Shy Love, also known as Shy Luv, (born November 27, 1978), is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, of Sicilian and Puerto Rican descent. She has been active in the porn industry since 2003. Love was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, where her father, a U.S. Army soldier, was stationed. At age seven, she, her parents, and her five sisters moved to New Haven, Connecticut. According to Love, she graduated from high school at age 16 and then earned a bachelor's degree and two masters She also claims to be a certified public accountant. In a 2007 interview with Gamelink, she said her relationship with her husband was only the third real relationship with a man she had ever had, that theirs was an open relationship, and she likes to play with other women. According to IMDb, in addition to starring in porn, Love is also a producer, director, and talent manager. She has acted in more than 250 adult films, and appeared as herself on TV several occasions. She began directing and producing films in 2004. She has also established her own talent agency, Adult Talent Managers, and signed Memphis Monroe, and Lisa Daniels as contract girls. She has said that her agency's representation of

Sindee Coxx (born in Long Island, USA) is a pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 1995 doing only girl–girl scenes at first, but later expanded into boy–girl, where she began expanding into interracial videos. In 2000 Coxx married AVN Hall of Fame cameraman, Barry Wood, and as of December 2003 she was pregnant.

Ariana Jollee is an American pornographic actress and director. Jollee entered the porn industry in 2003 after promoting herself on her home-made website. She was recruited by a production manager from Anabolic Video. Her first titles for the company were Nasty Girls 30 and Spring Chickens 4. In 2004, she traveled to Prague to perform in the 50 Guy Creampie series and in the same year, signed a directing contract with Anarchy Films and Python Pictures. Her first movie under the contract was The Narcassist. Jollee also directed the Mayhem series Young Bung. She was only supposed to perform in the movie but replaced Lauren Phoenix as director when Phoenix left the production over creative differences. She is of Italian and Russian Jewish descent.

Hannah Harper (born 4 July 1982) is an English pornographic actress and director. Harper grew up in Brixham, a fishing town in Devon where her parents worked in local holiday camps. She describes herself as a "real goody-goody" at school, and studied Theatre, Media, Dance and Psychology at A level at South Devon College. Her first job was at a local fish-and-chips shop, then in a hotel as a receptionist, barmaid and waitress. In 2001 Harper started modeling in London at her then-husband's suggestion. She moved to Los Angeles the following year for photo shoots before relocating there. Harper appeared in a few amateur porn videos, her first being with TM Video Productions, before working with Ben Dover in her first professional movie. She signed exclusive contracts with Legend Entertainment and Sin City Video. She was also involved in the day-to-day operations of the LA Direct Models agency alongside her boyfriend Ben English, until they broke up in mid-2004. Harper has appeared in High Society magazine and Club International magazine several times. In addition, she was the April 2002 Penthouse Pet of the Month, Aziani girl feature, and Hustler's May 2002 covergirl and

Jenteal (born June 26, 1976) is the stage name of a former American pornographic actress. She had a brief appearance in the Jon Favreau/Vince Vaughn movie Made where she played the role of an erotic dancer and was credited under the name Reanna Rossi. Jenteal also appeared in an episode of the TV comedy program The Man Show, and two episodes of Playboy TV's The Helmetcam Show. She has at some time been a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment.

Michelle Bauer (born October 1, 1958 in Montebello, California) is an American B-movie actress, scream queen, pornographic actress, and bondage model. Bauer was Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month for July 1981. Bauer also starred in the classic pornographic film Cafe Flesh (1982) under the name of Pia Snow. She states that she was happy to appear in the film, and on the covers of other X-rated films, but insisted on a double for the sex scenes. Bauer appeared in several other pornographic titles under her Pia Snow moniker, including Bad Girls, Bizarre People (in bondage gear), Nightdreams, and others. Bauer's Penthouse centerfold appearance led to acting for the Playboy Channel and a film try-out for director Fred Olen Ray. Ray liked her audition, and offered her the part if she would be willing to dye her hair black. Her first B-movie was The Tomb (1986), it would be the first of many Bauer is her married name, from her first husband. After they divorced, he filed a lawsuit requesting she not use it for her films. She tried appearing as Michelle McClellen, using the name of her second husband, in Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), but the press resisted, so she returned to

Roxanne Hall (born March 17, 1976 in Romford, London) is an English adult film actress. She entered the adult film industry in 1994 at the age of around 18, and has since appeared in over 400 films. She was a contract performer for Elegant Angel from 1997–98 and had the title role of Slutwoman. She took nearly a five-year hiatus from the adult industry before returning in 2003 with Slutwoman's Revenge. In 2007, Hall and J. J. Michaels started the production company, Wonderland Entertainment. Hall appeared in the music video for the Melvins song "Bar X The Rocking M" along with Stephanie Swift.

Allanah Starr is an American male-to-female transsexual pornographic actress, escort, performance artist, model, and party promoter. She was born in Cuba and emigrated to the United States at five, with her family. Her father had been a political prisoner. She grew up in Miami, Florida, but later relocated to New York City around 1999. She has described herself as having "always felt extremely effeminate", but did not start dressing as a female until after high school, when she attended art school. She describes her transition as an "evolvement of her femininity" since "I just changed the outside to match what I always felt inside of me. The change was purely cosmetic, I've always felt the same internally". While attending art college and before her transition, Starr developed a career as a performance artist in Miami Beach during the mid 90's. She was a club kid that became well known for her outrageous costumes, make up, and performances in the local media and social circuit. She went to achieve nightclub fame and performed for the likes of Madonna at her 32 birthday party (which was chronicled years later by her brother in his book Life With My Sister Madonna), Gianni Versace

Briana Banks (born Briana Bany; May 21, 1978) is a German-American pornographic actress and model. Briana Bany was born in Munich, Bavaria to a German father and an American mother. They moved to Britain when she was four years old, and to the Los Angeles, California, United States suburb of Simi Valley when she was seven years old. Her father still lives in Germany. She moved out of her mother's house when she was 16 years old, taking her 14-year-old sister with her. She got custody of her sister when she turned 18. She modeled as a teenager, including a cover of Teen magazine. She held various other jobs before entering the adult industry; making pizza, clerk at an arts and crafts store, file clerk and secretary. In 1999 she responded to a newspaper ad to do nude modeling for adult magazines. The photographer put her in a pornographic film. Her first film was University Coeds 18, for Dane Entertainment, in which she performed opposite Brandon Iron. She entered the industry under the name "Mirage", but began calling herself "Briana Banks" in 2000, after having the first of two breast enlargement operations. Having had aspirations of being a supermodel, she chose the professional

Cara Lott (born August 6, 1961) is an American pornographic actress. Lott was born in Huntington Beach, California and grew up in a middle-class Catholic family. Her career in adult entertainment started when she was 18, when she asked a friend to take some pictures of her in lingerie. Lott sent the pictures in to Hustler and soon afterwards was selected to pose and be the centerfold for the December 1981 issue. After signing with a modeling agency, she began shooting for nude magazines and soon afterwards, acting in adult films. After 1991, Lott took a break from films to go back to college to complete her degree in Health Sciences. She came back to the adult industry to make six more films in 1997–98. She made a total of about 300 movies by this point. In January 2005, she became once again active in the adult film industry as a "40+ model" and takes roles as a "MILF" actress and have appeared on the cover and in the pages of both Girls Over Forty and Forty Something magazines. In January 2006, she was inducted into both the AVN Hall of Fame and the Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame.

Lanny Barby (born 29 August 1981 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian former pornographic actress. Lanny Barby's adult career began, in her words, "about five seconds after my eighteenth birthday". It started off rather slowly in 2001 with her appearance in World Sex Tour 24: Canada, a low budget porno film, and a year later she continued with appearances in 2 on 1 #14 and Lewd Conduct 15. In 2003 she performed in ten movies, and her career gradually improved since then. Lanny Barby has appeared on the covers of several men's magazines, including Hustler, Club, and Penthouse, for which she was Penthouse Pet of the Month in June 2003. On 1 April 2005 it was announced by Vivid Entertainment that they had just signed Lanny Barby for a two-year exclusive contract, making her the first Vivid Girl from Montreal, Canada. In 2009 Lanny Barby ended her career in porn and decided to return to Canada.

Andrea Absolonová (26 December 1976 – 9 December 2004), better known by the pseudonym Lea De Mae, was a Czech adult model, pornographic actress and a member of the Czech high diving national team. Born in Czechoslovakia, De Mae was a member of the Czech high diving national team and injured her spine in an accident when training for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, diving from the 10m platform. She recovered from her injury, but did not qualify for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Her problems persisted, so she retired from professional sports. De Mae was later persuaded by a photographer to pose nude and eventually to participate in the adult film industry. De Mae appeared in over 80 adult films. She first showed up on American screens in a series of features for Private Studios. She eventually returned to Europe, shooting more films but, after a brief period of time returned to the States. De Mae was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer in July 2004. During her battle for life, fans from around the world and fellow porn actors supported a medical fund that had been set up for her in Prague, but she succumbed to the disease on 9 December 2004 at the age of

Mary Carey (born June 15, 1980) is an American pornographic actress. Carey was born Mary Ellen Cook in Cleveland, Ohio to a mother with schizophrenia and a father with cerebral palsy and was cared for by her grandparents from the age of three months. After her parents divorced, her mother moved in with Carey and her grandparents. At seven years of age, she and the family moved from Cleveland to Florida, and the next year Carey was legally adopted by her grandparents. Carey studied ballet from the age of seven until she was 19-years-old. She graduated in 1998 from the Pine Crest School, a Fort Lauderdale private preparatory school. At 19, she joined the dance team at Florida Atlantic University, where she was a student in the theater department. After her grandfather's death, her grandmother's health worsened and Carey took a job as an exotic dancer to help support the family financially. Upon noticing that the "feature dancers" made much more money, she asked an agent how she could become one too. The agent recommended that she become a porn star (the large fan base that successful porn stars have gives them superior drawing power when they dance in-person at strip clubs). Carey

Jane Esther Hamilton (born October 27, 1956) is an American former pornographic actress and current porn director who performed under the name Veronica Hart during the 1980s. She is sometimes credited as Jane Esther Hamilton, Jane Hamilton, V. Hart, Veronica Heart, Victoria Holt, Kathryn Stanleigh, Randee Styles or just Veronica. Hart is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. Hart was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hart made adult movies from 1980 until 1984, and is best known for her performances in Amanda by Night, Wanda Whips Wall Street, Roommates and A Scent of Heather. Today, she directs, edits and produces adult films, while making occasional (non-sexual) cameos in both mainstream and adult productions. She is bisexual. Events in her life were the inspiration for the custodial problems of character Amber Waves in Boogie Nights (1997), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Veronica went on to play a judge in "Boogie Nights," appearing in the scene where Amber and her husband are arguing during a hearing about their son. Veronica would later appear in another Paul Thomas Anderson movie, Magnolia. Wins AFAA for Best Actress – Amanda by Night AFAA Award for Best Actress – Roommates AFAA

Alicia Alighatti (June 21, 1984) is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. She took her stage name after Dante Alighieri. After high school, she studied international relations and French at a junior college.

Belladonna (born Michelle Anne Sinclair on May 21, 1981) is an American pornographic actress and producer. Michelle Anne Sinclair was born in Biloxi, Mississippi as the second of seven children. The family had German, Scottish, and Cherokee roots. She experienced her first kiss at age 12, got her first tattoo at 13, had her first intercourse at 14, her first anal sex at 16, and her first double anal at 19 for Anabolic Video. Sinclair dropped out of high school and moved out of her parents' house at 15. She also stayed in Utah for a short period of her life, and was raised as a Mormon. Prior to her pornography career she worked for 7-11, Victoria’s Secret, Sears and Subway. Her introduction to the adult industry came about when an agent came to Utah to see one of her friends, who introduced him to her. The next day she flew to Los Angeles. Immediately prior to starting her porn career she was dancing in a club in Utah. The pseudonym "Belladonna" came in part from a friend in Utah named Bella; later, an early agent suggested Bella Donna as it means "beautiful woman" in Italian. Her motivation to join the adult industry was mainly financial. Belladonna got into the adult film industry

Cathy Barry (born 28 September 1967 in Bristol, England) is an English pornographic actress. In 2004, Barry underwent a breast implant operation that was broadcast live on the Five show Cosmetic Surgery Live. It was reported as being the biggest breast enlargement operation to be performed in the UK. The surgeon performing the operation was later called before his hospital's ethics committee. In 2006, she starred in the porn film The Affair with Omar Williams. Although some critics attacked the film for bad filming that made it look amateurish, other critics have praised the movie,. Barry played herself in episode 6 of Unseen Skins on the Skins website. She sleeps with the character Chris Miles, and upon hearing about his love for his teacher she promises him a cheque for £700 so that he can pursue her on a school trip to Russia. In 2007, Barry won the award for Best British Performer at the ETO Awards show. Later that year, Barry was nominated for Best Female Actress in the UK Adult Film Awards for her role in Cathy's Diaries 9. Although she did not win the award, she was given a lifetime achievement award at the 2007 UK Adult Film Awards. In 2008 and 2011 Barry appeared on UK

Darren James (born February 25, 1964) is an American former pornographic actor who made worldwide headlines after testing positive for HIV. James tested positive on April 13, 2004. He is the first veteran actor to be infected since Tony Montana in 1999. In an attempt to prevent a possible outbreak, an urgent search was initiated for potentially infected performers. The search and subsequent testing was conducted by the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, where James had received his diagnosis. It was concluded that James had possibly been infected while engaging in unprotected anal sex with Brazilian actress Bianca Biaggi during a scene for the video Split That Booty 2 in Rio de Janeiro. Shock waves spread throughout the adult entertainment industry when it was discovered that three actresses who had worked with James shortly after his return to the United States had also become infected. These were Canadian newcomer Lara Roxx, Miss Arroyo and Czech-born Jessica Dee. Roxx had only entered the adult industry two months before contracting the virus. On learning about the HIV outbreak, she has said, "It totally made me realize how I trusted this system that wasn't to be

David Aaron Clark (September 5, 1960 – November 28, 2009) was an author, musician, pornographic actor, and two time AVN Award winning director of Asian themed adult movies. He is best known for shooting films of Asian women. Switching majors and finally graduating with a degree in journalism in 1986. He edited The Daily Targum, Rutgers' student newspaper, winning multiple Columbia Scholastic Press Association College Gold Circle Awards. Clark then worked as a stringer at The Bergen Record and the New Brunswick Home News Tribune before becoming an on-line editor at Dow Jones News Service. He left after two years to accept an editorial position at Genesis Magazine, followed by a five year tenure at Al Goldstein’s Screw magazine. Clark also edited the fanzine Chrome on Fire, and performed in the band False Virgins, produced by Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo. The band released two albums at the turn of the decade. When the lead singer committed suicide, Clark broke up the band and retired from playing music. Clark wrote several works of erotic fiction, including The Wet Forever about the relationship between a hedonistic man (Janus) and a dominatrix (Madchen). He moved to San

Gina Austin is an American model and porn star. She was born in 1983. She was Penthouse's Pet Of The Month in September 2005.

Juli Ashton (born October 5, 1968 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American pornographic actress and television host. After Ashton graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Spanish and History, she taught Spanish at a junior high school for a year. In 1994, she moved to Florida, and began appearing in adult films, starting with New Wave Hookers 4. In addition to her film work, she has lobbied on behalf of the porn industry at the California state legislature, appeared as a model in many magazines and toured as an exotic dancer. Since the 1990s, Ashton has been a frequent presence on the Playboy TV, co-hosting the long-running Night Calls live call-in series. She also appeared in two softcore motion picture spin-offs of the series, Night Calls: The Movie and Night Calls: The Movie 2 that air frequently on late night pay-cable. Juli is now the owner and operator of the adult website Juliland.com, a high-end site featuring the erotic imagery of photographer/director Richard Avery. In 1997, Ashton played Saffi in the movie Orgazmo, a comedy-action film by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the animated series South Park.

Katja K, also known as Katja Kean (born February 7, 1968 in Denmark as Sussi la Cour), is a Danish former pornographic actress. She also starred in two adult hardcore films produced by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lars von Trier's company Zentropa: Constance (1998) and Pink Prison (1999). In 2002, Katja changed her stage name from "Katja Kean" to "Katja K". Katja had a prominent role in the Danish sitcom Langt fra Las Vegas (Far from Las Vegas). She sang with Danish musician Dario Campeotto on his single "Save Your Love". She also appeared on a Filur track called "Sunset Boulevard". Author Henrik List wrote a biography (based on interviews with her) titled Katja KXXX – Stjerne I Syndens By (ISBN 9788779730533). She has stated she is bisexual, since she was 20.

Micky Yanai (Japanese: ミッキー 柳井, b. 1959) is a well-known Japanese male porn actor. Yanai is supposedly the inventor of an acrobatic sexual technique called the "Helicopter Fuck", although it is said such a technique was already seen in the Kama Sutra, or at least in the Cosmopolitan magazine version of it. He demonstrated his proficiency at the technique with a series of videos for the KMP Million label in 2004. (See Filmography) Yanai has become one of the few Japanese male porn stars known in the West through a group of videos produced by V&R Planning and released internationally in the United States and elsewhere in 2003 and 2004 by V&R International in uncensored form: Paradise of Japan 14: Helicopter Man (with Misuzu Akimoto), Paradise of Japan 22: Helicopterman 2, and Paradise of Japan 28: Helicopterman 3.

Nikki Fritz (born April 7, 1964) is an American model and softcore-pornography actress. Fritz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has appeared in over forty films, at least eleven television productions and over fifteen videos. In 2005, Fritz stopped appearing in television films but she continues to maintain her website.

Seymore Butts (born Adam Glasser; March 18, 1964) is an American pornographic film director, producer and occasional star who has produced hundreds of films in the "gonzo" genre of pornography (faux reality-based adult material). Butts was born to a Jewish family in The Bronx, New York. After making several appearances as a supporting actor in the late 1980s, including a role in an early "Buttman" video by John Stagliano (Buttman's Ultimate Workout, 1991), Glasser adopted the popular gag name Seymore Butts ("see more butts") as a pseudonym and began producing his own videos in the early 1990s after founding the Seymore, Inc. studio. The Seymore Butts series won "Best Gonzo Series" at the 1999 and 2000 AVN Awards. During 2001-02, Glasser was the focus of an obscenity-based court case, People of the State of California v. Adam Glasser, et al. over the depiction of vaginal fisting in his 1999 video Tampa Tushy Fest 1, even though the film won the "Best All-Girl Sex Scene - Video" award at the 2000 AVN Awards. Glasser pleaded not guilty to violating California Penal Code Sections 311.2(a), "production, distribution or exhibition of obscene matter"; and 311.5, "advertising or promoting

Shayla LaVeaux is an American pornographic actress and exotic dancer. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2002. In August 2008 it was reported that LaVeaux will make an appearance in the upcoming film Seasoned Players 6.

Corrie Floris (born December 23, 1975) professionally known as Sky Lopez, is a former American pornographic actress and model. Since entering the porn industry in 1999, Lopez has both acted and directed pornographic films, as well as being employed under exclusive contracts with Vivid Entertainment (making her a Vivid Girl) and Shane's World Studios. Lopez was also nominated for a 2005 AVN award for Best All-Girl Sex Scene for her role in High Desert Pirates. In 2008, a sex tape of Lopez and actor Jeremy Jackson (best known as Hobie Buchannon from Baywatch) was offered for sale. Jackson claimed that he was physically threatened into giving the tape to men who claimed that they represented Lopez.

Tory Lane (born September 30, 1982) is the stage name of an American nude model, exotic dancer, pornographic actress and adult film director. She was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is of Polish and Italian descent. She worked as a bartender at a club called The Elbo Room on Ft. Lauderdale Beach. She also worked at an adult bookstore and as a stripper in local Florida strip clubs. After signing with LA Direct, Lane's first scene in a pornographic movie was with Ben English and Marco in 2004. She has since gone on to appear in over 400 films. In 2006, Lane was a finalist on the second season of Playboy TV reality show, Jenna's American Sex Star, with Roxy Jezel, Jenna Presley and Daisy Marie. She lost the prize, a Club Jenna contract, to Jezel, in the last round. In May 2007 Lane signed a two-year contract with Sin City for both acting and directing.

Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma on May 7, 1968), also known as Traci Elizabeth Lords and Tracy Lords, is an American film actress, producer, film director, writer and singer. She first achieved notoriety for her underage appearances in pornographic videos and Penthouse magazine (she was 16 years old in her first movie), later becoming a successful television and B-movie actress. Nora Louise Kuzma was born in Steubenville, Ohio to Louis and Patricia Kuzma (née Briceland). Her stage name is said to be a tribute to Katharine Hepburn's character Tracy Lord from The Philadelphia Story or from the first name of her high school best friend Traci and the last name of her favorite actor from Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord. She was raped at the age of ten. At 12, she fled from her abusive alcoholic father to Lawndale, California, with her mother and three sisters. Her mother's new boyfriend, Roger, was a cocaine dealer who molested her. In 1983, she began attending Redondo Union High School. At the age of 15, Nora had dropped out of school and was living with her mother's ex-boyfriend, Roger. Posing as her stepfather, he helped her respond to classified ads requesting models. Using a false

Vanessa Blue is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and director. Blue initially worked as a nude dancer and studied to be an emergency medical technician. During her dancing career, she met a fellow dancer who introduced her to fetish modeling. After that, at the suggestion of a different model, she started performing in porn movies. Her first appearance was in a film with Ed Powers. After a year, she took a three-year break, moving to Nebraska to be with her family, but came back to the industry in 2000. She worked for Mercenary Pictures for several years and directed several of their series, one of which, Black Reign, won the 2005 AVN Award for Best Ethnic-Themed Series. She was engaged to Mercenary's owner, Lexington Steele. In 2008, Steele and Blue filed federal lawsuits against each other over the ownership of numerous videos that first appeared under the Mercenary Pictures label. The suits were settled in March 2009 after meeting with an alternative dispute resolution jurist. Blue has also directed femdom genre of movies under the pseudonym Domina X, and has also been a contract director for DVSX and Adam & Eve. Blue starred on Playboy TV and hosted Private