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Devon

2009-07-29T19:11:00.000-07:00

Porn Star Devon was born March 28, 1977, in New Jersey. Devon did bypassed most of the traditional paths into adult films. She has an older sister and two younger brothers. Devon was active in gymnastics and jazz dance instruction until she was 15. She graduated from high school early and, shortly afterwards, took a waitress job to support herself. Devon then auditioned for an amateur night at Al's Diamond Cabaret in Reading, Pennsylvania (and later won the first place jackpot). Devon danced at Al's Diamond Cabaret for three years. Devon's first foray into erotica was in New Breed (1998). Shortly after, Devon became a highly sought after porn starlet - helped in part by her striking resemblance to then pop starlet Britney Spears. After a few features, Devon was signed to an exclusive Vivid Entertainment contract. In 1999, Devon made an appearance on E! Entertainment's Howard Stern Show. Devon also began posing for several men's magazines (including being on the cover of Club magazine and being Penthouse Pet in January 2001). In January 2002, Devon received the first award of her career, Adult Video News's Best Interactive DVD for Digital Playground's Virtual Sex With Devon (it was also later awarded Best Interactive DVD from Empire and AFW). Digital Playground then signed Devon to an exclusive contract. In May 2002, Devon was featured on Stuff magazine's home page. Devon did her first anal scene in 2005's Intoxicated.

One look at Devon's steamy gaze and pouting good looks will have anyone wishing they had this blonde with the little girl smile bent over their knee.

Sign: Aries
Measurements: 34D - Height: 5'3
Heritage: Dutch, French & Cherokee

Dasha

2009-07-27T19:09:00.000-07:00

Dasha was born Dagmar Kozelková November 21, 1976 in Brno, Czech Republic. She is known for her penchant for female ejaculation. Her stage name is frequently spelled Dascha. Dasha studied ballet in her home country before moving to America in 1998. She allegedely worked at a Kmart, and not happy with the money she was making, made the move to stripping. After dancing in strip clubs for a while, she decided to enter adult films and signed with Vivid Video. She married adult actor Dillon Day in 2000; they both retired from adult films in 2003 and moved to Europe. 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. In 2000, Dasha appeared in music videos for Madonna (Music) and the Deftones (Change). She also appeared on the cover of Brougham's CD "Murked Out".

Vivid Girl Dasha's sophistication and talents are known not only at adult industry. She has appeared in music videos for many prestigious artists such as the Deftones and Madonna.

Sign: Scorpio
Heritage: Czech
Measurements: 36C - Height: 5'9

Ashlyn Gere

2009-07-25T19:08:00.000-07:00

Ashlyn Gere was born Kimberly Ashlyn McKamy on September 14, 1967 in Cherry Point, North Carolina. She performs in both straight and lesbian films. She was a cheerleader in high school and graduated from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas with a double major in Theater Arts and Communications. In the 1980s she was an actress in several B-movies. She was a body double in the films Basic Instinct and Indecent Proposal. Ashlyn Gere began working in adult films in 1990, becoming renowned for her athletic performances. 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 continued her pornographic career while playing on these shows, becoming one of the few actresses to successfully balance both careers (as opposed to the usual tactic of focusing exclusively on one aspect or the other). 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 has made over one hundred X-rated films. She is married and has a child.

Taylor Hayes

2009-07-23T19:06:00.000-07:00

Taylor Hayes (born Tara Ellyn Smith on January 14, 1975 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan) is an American porn star. In 1994, Hayes was named a Penthouse Pet. One year later, she moved to Los Angeles and began working for adult studio VCA Pictures. Vivid Entertainment signed Taylor Hayes to an exclusive contract in 1997. She retired from adult films in 2002. That same year, AVN Magazine placed her in their list of top 50 porn stars of all time. Hayes was romantically involved with Adam Glasser (AKA Seymore Butts) in the mid-1990s; the couple had a son named Brady in 1996. Taylor Hayes is also the name of a character played by Hunter Tylo on the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Taylor Hayes announced her return to porn in December of 2005.

Star of the award winning Vivid film 'Fade to Black' Taylor Hayes is as stunning today as is she was when she started her career.
Sign: Capricorn
Heritage: Puerto Rican / English
Measurements: 34DD - Height 5'5

Tera Patrick

2009-07-21T19:05:00.001-07:00

Tera Patrick (born Linda Ann Hopkins Shapiro on July 25, 1976) is an American erotic actress. She has appeared under various names, including Tera Patrick, Brooke Thomas, Sadie Jordan, and Tara Patrick (coincidentally the real name of actress Carmen Electra).Patrick was born in Great Falls, Montana to a British Jewish father and Thai mother. While Tera was quite young, her mother moved back to Thailand to live permanently, and her father moved with her to San Francisco, California and raised her there, alone. Patrick was discovered in San Francisco by a talent scout for the Eileen Ford Modeling Agency, and at the age of 13 she was signed to a contract. She moved to New York City shortly thereafter and her career as a runway and catalog model began. At 18, she left the world of modeling and enrolled in college, where she received her associate's (two year) degree in nursing. She is a registered nurse in the State of California. In the late 1990s, Patrick began modeling again, this time nude and in soft-core features. In 1999, she made the transition to hard-core porn in Andrew Blake's Aroused. Since that time, she has become one of the most popular and recognized porn stars in the world, having graced the pages of Playboy and Penthouse, where she was a "Pet of the Month" and was selected as "Pet of the Year", as well as having appeared in more than seventy adult features. Tera is noted for her sultry voice and her aroused and enthusiastic portrayals of sex. Becasue of this, she has won several awards from the adult-movie business organizations. Today, she hosts the popular webcast The Tera Patrick Show and she is active in the adult film community, raising money for both the Free Speech Coalition and A.I.M Healthcare. Tera has been a frequent and favorite guest of Howard Stern on his TV and radio programs. In December of 2002, she severed ties with Digital Playground, and brought suit against them, contending she was not paid for her appearance in several Digital Playground productions. Digital Playground's countersuit contended that it owns exclusive rights to the name "Tera Patrick," and that she is signed up to produce adult entertainment only for them until January 2007. Despite her ongoing lawsuits with Digital Playground, Patrick signed a two-year exclusive contract with Vivid Video on December 2003. Patrick underwent breast-augmentation surgery in late 2002 or early 2003. Before that surgery her breasts were 100% natural. However, Tera has a great deal of natural beauty, so the need for breast-augmentation was questionable. On January 9, 2004, Patrick married Evan Seinfeld, a singer for rock act Biohazard and actor in the series Oz. The two have made two movies for Vivid (with Seinfeld appearing under the name "Spyder Jonez"). In both movies, Tera performs with several women, but the only man with whom she has sex on film is her husband. According to the January 20, 2006 entry in her online diary, Patrick is making a movie which will be available in spring 2006. It marks her first boy/girl scene in 3 years with another male performer, other than her husband. Some sources state that Tera has a bachelor's degree in microbiology, but this is doubtful because there simply wouldn't have been time in her life to earn this and a nursing degree, too, as well as working as a model. She reportedly speaks fluent Hungarian, but this is also questionable. One of her most acclaimed films is Forbidden Tales.

Kobe Tai

2009-05-11T05:16:00.000-07:00

Kobe Tai is an Asian American porn star of Chinese and Japanese heritage. Her real name is Carla Carter. Kobe Tai was born in Taipei, Taiwan on January 15, 1972, but was adopted by an American family in Arkansas when she was five months old. She attended the University of Arkansas. She broke into the porn industry in 1996, under the names Blake Young and Brooke Young before adopting the name Kobe Tai. She is signed to Vivid Entertainment as an exclusive performer. Along with Asia Carrera, she is regarded as one of the top Asian female porn stars of all time. Some of Tai's notable early works are "Executions on Butt Row" (with Sean Michaels), and "Vivid Raw #2" (with Alex Sanders), her first Vivid production. Kobe Tai married adult film actor Steven Scott, who performs under the name Mark Davis, in 1997. The couple divorced in 1999, though she continues to use the name Carla Scott. In 2000, she left the industry, announcing that she was expecting her first child. She had a son, born sometime late 2000 to early 2001. She returned to pornography in December 2001 in the movie Jenna Loves Kobe, with Jenna Jameson. Since then, she has starred in a total of 365 movies. She has dual nationality. In addition to her roles in adult films, Tai appeared in the mainstream movie Very Bad Things as a stripper who was accidentally killed at a bachelor party. Also, she has made appearances on The Man Show and The Helmetcam Show. Tai also did background vocals for Marilyn Manson's song, "I Don't Like the Drugs, But the Drugs Like Me", on the album Mechanical Animals.

Alex Taylor

2009-05-10T05:15:00.000-07:00

Alex Taylor is born as Adriana Molinari in 1970 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Alex was an Latin pornstar who worked for Vivid Entertainment from 1998 to 2004. She now resides in Orlando, Florida and is no longer active in the adult industry. Taylor moved to the USA in 1982. She won the Miss New Hampshire pageant in 1992, but when it was discovered she was an exotic dancer, they stripped her of the title. Alex Taylor was the August 1994 Penthouse Pet and appeared in the adult magazine over 30 times. She was featured in pictorials of a bisexual nature. She was also given the titles of Miss Argentina, Miss Nude World, and 1991's Miss New Hampshire.

Jenteal

2009-05-09T05:11:00.000-07:00

Jenteal (born June 26, 1976) is an American erotic actress. She is sometimes credited as Jen, Jen Teal, or Reanna (Lynn) Rossi. Born Reanna Lynn Rossi in Oklahoma and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jenteal went to Southern California in 1994 to pursue a career in adult films. Her enthusiasm gained her immediate recognition, appearing in many hardcore films. However, she backed off from boy/girl encounters early in her career, instead appearing in girl-girl movies. She began appearing in boy/girl scenes again after signing with Vivid Video, gaining worldwide recognition as a porn actress. Jenteal gave birth to twins in September 2001. Currently she raises three children.

Tia Bella

2009-05-08T05:10:00.001-07:00

Tia Bella was born Christina Smith on 25 December 1973 in Newark, New Jersey. Her exotic look is the result of her mixture of Greek and Spanish heritage. While Bella attended Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, she became an exotic dancer to earn extra money. While attending the University she made a name for herself on campus as a member of the Tri-Sigma Sorority. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in history, she took a vacation in Southern California, during which she approached Vivid Entertainment for employment (an unusual move, since the selective adult production company traditionally solicits established actresses). They reportedly offered her a contract on the spot depite her lack of prior adult film experience. Bella signed with the company, joining the ranks of "Vivid Girls"; the bulk of her adult film work was for Vivid from her debut in 1997 until her retirement in 2001. Note that, like many adult stars, footage of her performances was reused in "compilation" films for years after her exit from the industry. Her men's magazine modeling credits include Hustler (December 1999) and the cover of Club Confidential (January 1999).

One of our best kept secrets, Tia Bella is like a flower you would find only in the most exotic of climates. Tia is as stunning as she is refined; a quiet beauty and truly a classic Vivid Girl.
Sign: Capricorn
Ethnic Heritage: Spanish and Greek
Measurements: 36D - Height: 5'4

India

2009-05-01T04:18:00.001-07:00

India (birth name Shamika Brown) was trained as a dancer, but started doing adult films in 1996. She began as a stripper in Los Angeles, making the rounds of the various clubs, and was noticed by producers. Her exotic look and petite body served her well over the next years, and she became a fixture in black-themed porn, especially in the anal sex sub-genre. After starring for several years at KaraDavis.com, an Internet porn site that features primarily interracial couplings of white men with black women, she started to work part-time at Nevada's Moonlight Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel (which she finds safer and more profitable), and has cut down on the number of appearances in adult films.

Raylene

2009-05-01T04:15:00.001-07:00

Raylene (born Stacey B. Bernstein on February 12, 1977 in Glendora, California) is a retired pornographic film actress. Raylene started her career in 1996 and until the end of her career appeared in about 90 videos, doing both heterosexual and lesbian scenes. She is most noted for her outstanding fellatio technique, which was amongst the very best in the industry during the course of her career. Raylene is also known for her facial scenes. Raylene initially started her career under the name Alexis Fontaine. Raylene has an ethnic heritage that is a combination of Mexican (father) and Israeli (mother) roots. In 1998, Raylene signed a contract with Vivid Video. At the 2000 Grammy Awards, She was featured cage dancing with Kobe Tai during a performance by Kid Rock. Raylene announced her retirement from the industry in November 2001. She then became involved in the real estate business.

Celeste

2009-04-29T16:01:00.000-07:00

Celeste was born May 3, 1972 . Raised in Stillwater, Minnesota, Celeste worked as a stripper at Minneapolis' Deja Vu club before deciding to appear in porn. She moved out west and began her career in videos with her boyfriend Woody Long. Her first major role as a featured performer was in John Stagliano's Butt Freak (1992), which began her reputation for being talented at anal sex. Early on in her career she was described as the Cindy Crawford of adult entertainment, as she was thought to bear a resemblance to the super model. She and Long married soon afterwards, and for a period Celeste only had on-screen sex with her husband. Her popularity grew until she and Wood left the industry and moved back to Minnesota. This retirement was short: the couple divorced and Celeste underwent rhinoplasty and breast augmentation before her comeback. She signed an exclusive deal with Vivid Video and married porn film director Paul Norman. She also encouraged Nikki Tyler to XXX. After shooting Borderline (1995), the most expensive Vivid film ever made, Celeste became pregnant by Norman and retired from porn in 1996.

Tori Welles

2009-04-28T15:58:00.000-07:00

Tori Welles was born June 17, 1967 in San Fernando Valley, California. She is sometimes credited as Brittania Paris, Torrie Welles, or Tory Welles. Welles dropped out of high school to become a stripper, but she later earned a GED. After rising to fame in the 80s, Welles began directing adult films before retiring in the 90s. During her initial film career, she had a single, small tattoo of a black, bleeding heart near her vagina and a small stud in her left nostril. She made a comeback in 1997, appearing in two movies before leaving again; by this time, she had many more piercings and tattoos. Tori Welles was married to porn director Paul Norman from 1990 to 1994. They have two children from their marriage. She later had a third child with another man. Shortly before her comeback, her ex-husband Norman released a videotape containing what he alleged was private home video of himself and Welles called The Private Diary of Tori Welles. Welles was angry but claimed she had no legal basis to stop distribution of the video.