Vanessa Blue

About Vanessa Blue

Vanessa Blue is an American porn actress, adult model, director and online model. She was inducted in the Adult Video News (AVN) Hall of Fame in 2013.

Vanessa initially worked as a nude dancer and was studying 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.[3] She was engaged to Mercenary's owner, porn actor 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. She subsequently distributed her movies through Justin Slayer International, signing with them in April 2010.

Blue starred on Playboy TV and hosted Private Calls and Night Calls on Playboy Radio until 2008.

She briefly returned to doing scenes in 2011, and did a series of hardcore scenes for Brazzers.

She is currently the only American female to hold a performance/directing contact for Playboy TV & Hustler video at the same time.

She is also the first African American female to win an AVN (in January 2005 for "Best Ethnic Series" for her first three titles) as director.

She has appeared in several mainstream movies and magazines, including Rolling Stones Magazine for her interview with rap star 50 cent.

She was immortalized with her own line of adult novelty products in 2003.

She also made a cameo appearance in The Game's rap video "Wouldn't Get Far."