Raylene
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{{short description|American pornographic actress}}
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| image = Raylene (pornographic actress, 2011).jpg
| caption = Raylene in 2011
| birth_name = Stacey Bernstein
| other_names = {{unbulleted list|Stacey Hirsch|Alexis Fontane}}
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| birth_place = Glendora, California, U.S.{{r|Rock 1998}}
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| spouse = Brad Hirsch (divorced)
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Stacey Hirsch ({{née}} Bernstein), known professionally as Raylene, is an American pornographic actress.
Early life
Raylene was born and raised in Glendora, California. She is of Italian and Mexican descent on her mother's side. Her father is Jewish, of Polish and Austrian descent.
As a child, Raylene attended Christian schools. She was an honors student in high school and graduated at age 16, two years early. She said she had originally intended to pursue Christian studies at Azusa Pacific University and become a Christian high school teacher.
Career
Raylene began acting when she was five years old.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.adultvideonews.com/bone/awards/bya_08.html |title=Best Actress - Film (Tie): Raylene, Artemesia, Vivid Film & Taylor Hayes, Jekyll And Hyde, Vivid Film |first=Mark |last=Kernes |date=March 2001 |magazine=Adult Video News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010411225444/http://www.adultvideonews.com/bone/awards/bya_08.html |archive-date=April 11, 2001}} With help from her uncle, a television producer, she appeared on Hunter and 21 Jump Street.
She had a non-speaking appearance on an episode of the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}
Raylene made her pornographic film debut in 1998. She was a contract performer for Vivid Entertainment between May 1998 and November 2001, during which time she appeared in nearly 100 films.{{cite magazine |url=http://avn.digitalod.com/query/?for=news&eid=9772 |title=Vivid Girl Raylene Retires |first=Heidi |last=Pike-Johnson |date=November 12, 2001 |magazine=Adult Video News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020924025934/http://avn.digitalod.com/query/?for=news&eid=9772 |archive-date=September 24, 2002}}
Raylene retired from the adult film industry in 2001. After briefly touring as a striptease dancer, she found work as a real estate agent.
While working in real estate, she brokered a sale to the AIM Health Care Foundation.{{cite news |first=Dan |last=Miller |title=Former Vivid Girl Finds Home in Real Estate |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/former-vivid-girl-finds-home-in-real-estate-44376.html |work=Adult Video News |date=June 27, 2005 |access-date=2022-08-14}}
She returned to performing in pornographic films with Raylene's Dirty Work in 2009.{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Dan |date=28 July 2009 |title=Vivid to Unveil Raylene's Comeback Movie Next Week |website=Adult Video News |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/vivid-to-unveil-raylene-s-comeback-movie-next-week-353870.html |access-date=2022-08-14}}
Personal life
Raylene was briefly married to Brad Hirsch, brother of Vivid Entertainment co-chairman Steve Hirsch.{{cite news |first=Gila |last=Morgan |title=Stacey Hirsch |publisher=XBIZ |url=https://www.xbiz.com/features/80767/stacey-hirsch |date=2006-10-22 |access-date=2022-08-14}}
Awards
- 1999 XRCO Award – Starlet of the Year{{cite magazine |author= |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/masseuse-3-and-caf-flesh-2-top-xrco-awards-36335.html |title=Masseuse 3 and Café Flesh 2 Top XRCO Awards |access-date=2022-08-14 |date=1999-03-05 |magazine=Adult Video News}}
- 2001 AVN Award – Best Actress (Film) – Artemesia (tied with Taylor Hayes – Jekyll and Hyde){{cite web |url=http://www.ainews.com/Archives/Story1402.phtml |title=The AVN Awards Show a Night to Remember |first=Steve |last=Nelson |date=2001-01-09 |website=Adult Industry News |archive-date=2014-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506061130/http://ainews.com/Archives/Story1402.phtml |url-status=usurped}}{{Self-published inline|date=August 2024}}
- 2008 AVN Hall of Fame{{cite magazine |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/2008-avn-awards-winners-announced-25411.html |title=2008 AVN Awards Winners Announced |access-date=2022-08-14 |first=Jared |last=Rutter |date=2008-01-13 |magazine=Adult Video News}}
- 2017 XRCO Hall of Fame
References
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Category:American female adult models
Category:American pornographic film actresses
Category:American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Category:American people of Italian descent
Category:American actresses of Mexican descent
Category:American people of Polish-Jewish descent
Category:Hispanic and Latino American pornographic film actors
Category:Actresses from Greater Los Angeles
Category:Pornographic film actors from California