Devinn Lane is a former adult

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, 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

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film debut in 1999, performing in only

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scenes. She signed an exclusive contract for the production company

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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 '' Lovers Lane''. As of 2005, she went on indefinite hiatus from on-screen work, focusing on directing for the production company

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. Her first producer credit is on the film ''Beautiful/Nasty'' which was nominated for the

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Best All-Girl Feature in 2002. In addition to hardcore work, Lane also hosted

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's mock reality show ''7 Lives Exposed'', which ran for six seasons until 2007, and has appeared in several softcore films which appear on DVD and on the

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channels.

Lawsuit

In October 2008, Lane filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against

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, Vivid Entertainment Group, and Moniker Online Services among other entities, alleging that they profited from domain names similar to her performer name and did not compensate her. In February 2009, she dismissed her claims against most of the companies, leaving only Privacy Protect and

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named in the suit.

Notable TV guest appearances

* ''

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'' playing "Denise" in episode: "A Most Dangerous Desire" (episode # 1.2), June 9, 2001 * ''The Helmetcam Show'' playing "Herself – Guest" (episode # 5.1), July 5, 2000 * ''

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'' playing "Herself" in episode: "Wheel of Destiny" (episode # 2.3), July 2, 2000 * ''The Helmetcam Show'' playing "Herself – Guest" (episode # 4.17), May 17, 2000 * ''The Helmetcam Show'' playing "Herself – Guest" (episode # 4.8), December 1, 1999 * ''

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'' playing "Herself", October 16, 1999

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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Bio
at Wicked Pictures

Interview at Broken Dollz
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