Tory Lane
{{short description|American actress}}
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|birth_place = Schenectady, New York, U.S.
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Tory Lane is an American fetish model, exotic dancer, pornographic actress, and pornographic film director. She was named among the top twenty pornographic actresses at the 2007 Adultcon and has won two AVN Awards. In 2017, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/class-of-2017-the-new-inductees-into-the-avn-hall-of-fame-707363.html |title=Class of 2017: The AVN Hall of Fame's Newest Inductees |accessdate=January 5, 2017 |work=AVN}}
Early life and career
Lane was born in Schenectady, New York. She worked as a bartender at a club called The Elbo Room on Fort Lauderdale Beach.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.avninsider.com/stories/fotb092204.shtml |title=Fresh Flesh: Tory Lane |accessdate=July 24, 2007 |author1=Pete "Wetscrog" Warren |author2=Steven St. Croix |author3=Dale DaBone |date=September 22, 2004 |magazine=AVN |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701210825/http://www.avninsider.com/stories/fotb092204.shtml |archivedate=July 1, 2007}} She also worked at a sex shop{{cite web |url=http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=23199 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209021445/http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=23199 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 9, 2012 |title=Tory Lane Inks Exclusive Sin City Contract |accessdate=May 25, 2007 |author=Steve Javors |date=May 23, 2007 |publisher=XBIZ}} and as a stripper in local Florida strip clubs.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}
Lane started in the pornographic film industry after being scouted in Florida by Peter North, and she then flew out to California and signed with the then-new agency LA Direct Models. After signing with LA Direct Models, Lane's first scene in a pornographic film was with Ben English and Marco In May 2007, Lane signed a two-year contract with Sin City for both acting and directing. In 2006, Lane was a finalist on the second season of Playboy TV reality show Jenna's American Sex Star,[http://business.avn.com/articles/27818.html "'Jenna's American Sex Star' Enters Final Round"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911055107/http://business.avn.com/articles/27818.html |date=September 11, 2009 }}, Adult Video News, July 24, 2006, Retrieved October 28, 2007 but she lost the prize in the final round.[http://www.playboy.com/playboytv/original_series/americansexstar/ "Playboy TV – Jenna Jameson – American Sex Star"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051013091855/http://playboy.com/playboytv/original_series/americansexstar/ |date=October 13, 2005 }}, Retrieved October 28, 2007 She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2017.
Personal life
Lane is a personal friend of Jennifer Ketcham and features in her 2012 memoir I Am Jennie. Ketcham stated that Lane used the money she made in the industry to provide for her sister, extended family, and self and described her as "one of the few responsible girls in the biz".{{cite book |last=Ketcham |first=Jennifer |year=2012 |title=I Am Jennie |page=35 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-451-644760}}
Awards
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|1756350|Tory Lane}}
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- {{afdb name|33848|Tory Lane}}
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Category:Actors from Schenectady, New York
Category:American female adult models
Category:American pornographic film actresses
Category:American pornographic film directors
Category:Women pornographic film directors
Category:Actresses from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Category:Pornographic film actors from Florida
Category:American people of Polish descent
Category:21st-century American actresses