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Wicked Pictures
Wicked Pictures is an American pornographic movie studio headquartered in Canoga Park, California. Between 2004 and 2021, it was one of the only heterosexual studios to maintain a condoms-only policy. Company history Steve Orenstein founded Wicked Pictures in 1993, after developing an interest in creative aspects of film production while a partner in his previous adult company, X-Citement Video. During its first year, Wicked won industry awards and Orenstein signed Chasey Lain as the first "Wicked Girl". The second Wicked Girl, Jenna Jameson, signed in 1995. Under Wicked's promotion, Jameson became the only winner of AVN Awards for Best New Starlet, Best Actress, and Best Sex Scene in the same year. Wicked won the first high-definition Adult Video News Award for '' Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre'' in December 2006. The movie went on to win several AVN Awards in 2007. In October 2010, Wicked stopped production when an actor tested positive for HIV. The studio agreed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult
An adult is a human or other animal that has reached full growth. In human context, the term ''adult'' has meanings associated with social and legal concepts. In contrast to a " minor", a legal adult is a person who has attained the age of majority and is therefore regarded as independent, self-sufficient, and responsible. They may also be regarded as a "major". The typical age of attaining legal adulthood is 18, although definition may vary by legal rights, country, and psychological development. Human adulthood encompasses psychological adult development. Definitions of adulthood are often inconsistent and contradictory; a person may be biologically an adult, and have adult behavior, but still be treated as a child if they are under the legal age of majority. Conversely, one may legally be an adult but possess none of the maturity and responsibility that may define an adult character. In different cultures there are events that relate passing from being a child to becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XBIZ Award
XBIZ Awards are given annually to honour "individuals, companies, performers and products that play an essential part in the growth and success of adult films" and have been described by XBIZ publisher and founder Alec Helmy as being "born out of the industry's desire for an awards event that not only encompasses all facets of the business but one which presents it in a professional light and honors it with class". Organized by the adult industry trade magazine XBIZ, the awards were first given in 2003. The award nominations are submitted by clients, and the winners are voted for by XBIZ staff, industry colleagues and participating organizations. The awards were originally created to recognize achievement in the online adult industry, but, in recent years, video categories have been added. The XBIZ Awards in the adult film industry have been compared to the Golden Globes in the mainstream film industry. The 2010 XBIZ Awards were held in at the Avalon in Hollywood. As of 2014, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asa Akira
Asa Akira (born January 3, 1985) is an American pornographic actress and adult film director. Akira has appeared in over 505 adult films as of May 2016. In 2013, she became the third Asian performer (after Asia Carrera and Stephanie Swift) to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award. Akira hosted the 1st and 2nd ceremonies for the Pornhub Awards. Career Akira began working as a dominatrix when she was 19 years old. She later worked as a stripper at the Hustler Club in New York. In 2006–2007 she was a regular on the ''Bubba the Love Sponge'' radio show and was known as the "Show Whore". Her first boy-girl scene was with Travis Knight for Gina Lynn Productions, after having already done several girl-girl scenes, mainly with Lynn. She then signed a contract with Vouyer Media before becoming a freelancer six months later. Asa is her real first name, which means "morning" in Japanese, and the last name in her stage name was taken from the anime film '' Akira''. Akira is o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaylani Lei
Kaylani Lei (born Ashley Spalding) is an American pornographic actress. Early life Lei is of Chinese and Filipino descent. Career Lei danced at the Olympic Garden in Las Vegas prior to her porn career. She is a former contract performer for pornographic production studio Wicked Pictures.AVNInsider profile Retrieved October 2, 2007.Dale Granger (August 24, 2005) ''Asian Sex Gazette''. Retrieved October 2, 2007. Outside her work, she was the host of a |
Lupe Fuentes
Zuleidy Piedrahita, known under the stage names Lupe Fuentes and Lil Lupe, (born 27 January 1987) is a Colombian house music producer, DJ, and former pornographic actress. She was married to singer and actor Evan Seinfeld from 2011 to 2020. Biography Early life and adult film career Fuentes was born in Colombia and grew up in Madrid, Spain. She entered the adult film industry in 2007, after launching her own amateur website. She initially shot her scenes in Spain, but later moved to the United States. In 2009, federal agents arrested a man in Puerto Rico on suspicion of possessing child pornography that included Fuentes. At trial, a pediatrician testified that Lupe was underage based on her appearance. Lawyers for the defense subpoenaed Fuentes to show her passport, proving that she was 19 years old at the time of filming. Musical career Fuentes began her music career in 2010. Her music is influenced by her Latin roots and the house music she heard in the streets and the nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Price (actress)
Kirsten Price (born November 13, 1981) is an American pornographic actress, model, and feature dancer. Early life Price, whose real name is Katherine and goes by Kate, was born in Providence, Rhode Island and is of French and Italian descent. She was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied criminal justice while attending Fisher College in Massachusetts, and she has also lived in New York City, where she worked as a go-go dancer and cocktail waitress. Career Price chose the first name Kirsten for her stage name because it was the true name of her best friend, who was also an adult entertainer. She has stated that, as a child, she wanted to be a model on ''The Price Is Right'', which is how she came up with the last name Price. She began her adult career doing nude modeling and stripping. Her first two scenes were in ''Dressed for Sex'' for Original Sin Films and ''Wet Teens 7'' for Simon Wolf Productions. She eventually signed a contract with Wicked Pictures in 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Hart
Carmen Hart (born March 12, 1984) is a Native American former pornographic actress and exotic dancer from North Carolina. Career Hart attributes the 1996 Demi Moore movie '' Striptease'' as her inspiration to begin exotic dancing. Hart drove to Fayetteville one night and stopped at the first strip club she saw. In October 2005, Hart signed on as a contract girl with Wicked Pictures for two years. Over the course of her career Hart predominantly worked for the production company Wicked Pictures, but she also worked for companies such as Adam & Eve and New Sensations. During her career, Hart did not perform any anal scenes. Over the course of her adult industry career, Hart continued to be featured as a dancer in men's clubs as well as appear at modeling shows and conventions in the United States and abroad. Appearances Hart has appeared on several television shows that include several multi-episode roles. These appearances include the Netherland talk show ''Spuiten en sli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Ann
Julia Ann is an American pornographic actress and feature dancer. She is a member of the AVN, XRCO, and Brazzers Halls of Fame. Career By age 18 Julia Ann started modeling, 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 their own issue of the Carnal Comics comic book title (which also published a Julia Ann solo comic, co-written by her), as well as offers to join the pornographic film industry. Julia Ann debuted in adult films in 1992 in Andrew Blake's ''Hidden Obsessions'', in a lesbian sex scene with Lindemulder. In the 1990s, Ann and Lindemulder performed for Vivid Video. She was under contract to Wicked Pictures in 2006, but in May 2007 she posted on the members section of her website that she had not renewed her contract with Wicked. Personal life Ann says she grew up around animals and developed a love for horses; s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydnee Steele
Sydnee Steele (born September 23, 1968)The month and day of her birth, September 23, are given o"About Me" at Sydnee Steele’s Sexual Empowerment Coaching site, but sources differ as to the yearHer myspace pagestates her to be 35 as of 2007-07-16, which would mean 1971-09-23IAFDstate 1968-09-23, an''New York Law Journal''states 38 as of 2007-06-08, which would mean 1968-09-23 is an American sex therapist, author, free speech activist, and former pornographic actress."About Me" at Sydnee Steele’s Sexual Empowerment Coaching site. Retrieved 2007-07-12. She appeared in over 300 pornographic films before her retirement in 2005. Early life Steele was born in , the daughter of a college ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devinn Lane
Devinn Lane is a former adult model, pornographic actress, writer, director and producer. She is sometimes credited as Devin Lane or Devon Lane. Biography 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. Adult film career She made her hardcore film debut in 1999, performing in only lesbian 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 '' Love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serenity (actress)
Serenity (born October 29, 1969) is an American former pornographic actress who worked with Wicked Pictures and Hollywood Video. In 2002, she was ranked one of "The Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time" by Adult Video News. She also worked as a reporter for various news channels and is an outspoken advocate for animal rights. Early life Serenity was born in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, raised "everywhere from Maine to Mississippi", and moved to Las Vegas in the early 1990s. She holds a degree in journalism. She was a ballet dancer and waitress prior to entering the adult entertainment industry. Career Serenity started out stripping and modeling for men's magazines. Her first scene was with Alexis DeVell and PJ Sparxx in ''Jennifer Ate'' for Wicked Pictures in 1993. Her first boy/girl scene was in ''The Temptation of Serenity''. She was a contract performer for Wicked Pictures between 1996 and December 31, 2001. In September 2002, she signed a one-year, multi-picture deal with Hollyw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
