Vanessa Blue
{{Short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox adult biography
| name = Vanessa Blue
| image = Vanessa Blue.jpg
| caption = Blue in 2007
| birth_name =
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| spouse =
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}}
| website = http://www.vanessablue.com/
}}
Vanessa Blue is an American pornographic actress, producer, online model, and director. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2013.
Career
Blue initially worked as a nude dancer and studied 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,{{cite web|url= http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/interviews/id.999/title.vanessa-blue-my-blue-heaven-part-1|title= Vanessa Blue: My Blue Heaven Part 1|access-date= 2008-03-03|author= Anthony Springer Jr|date= 2008-01-21|publisher= hiphopdx.com}} 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. She was engaged to Mercenary's owner, Lexington Steele.{{cite web | title =Vanessa Blue Leaves Mercenary Pictures | publisher =AVN.com | url =http://business.avn.com/articles/27259.html | date =2006-06-20 | access-date =2008-10-31 | archive-date =2010-01-07 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100107055839/http://business.avn.com/articles/27259.html | url-status =dead }} 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.{{cite web|url= http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=105919|title= Lexington Steele, Vanessa Blue Settle Suits Against Each Other|access-date= 2009-07-08|first= Rhett|last= Pardon|date= 2009-03-13|publisher= xbiz.com|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190704/http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=105919|archive-date= 2016-03-03}} She subsequently distributed her movies through Justin Slayer International, signing with them in April 2010.{{cite web|url= http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=119877&mi=all&q=vanessa+blue|title= Justin Slayer Int. to Release V is for VANESSA|access-date= 2010-05-22|author= Press|date= 2010-04-22|publisher= XBiz.com|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110616120442/http://www.xbiz.com/news/news_piece.php?id=119877&mi=all&q=vanessa+blue|archive-date= 2011-06-16|url-status= dead}}
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.
=Director=
Blue has also directed femdom genre of movies under the pseudonym Domina X, and has also been a contract director for DVSX and Adam & Eve.
Awards
In 2008, Blue won an Urban X Award for Videography and was admitted to the Urban X Hall of Fame in 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.urbanxawards.com/Winners.html |title=2009 Award Winners |publisher=Urban X Awards |access-date=August 1, 2009 |archive-date=July 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726165213/http://urbanxawards.com/Winners.html |url-status=dead }}
In 2013 she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=http://business.avn.com/articles/video/AVN-Announces-2013-Hall-of-Fame-Inductees-498347.html |title=AVN - AVN Announces 2013 Hall of Fame Inductees |publisher=Business.avn.com |date=2012-12-21 |access-date=2013-04-05 |archive-date=2013-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130331194102/http://business.avn.com/articles/video/AVN-Announces-2013-Hall-of-Fame-Inductees-498347.html |url-status=dead }}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category|Vanessa Blue}}
- {{official website|http://www.vanessablue.com}}
- {{IMDb name|0089546|Vanessa Blue}}
- {{iafd name|id=VanessaBlue|gender=female|name=Vanessa Blue}}
- {{afdb name|id=6774|gender=female|name=Vanessa Blue}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blue, Vanessa}}
Category:African-American pornographic film actors
Category:American female adult models
Category:American pornographic film actresses
Category:American pornographic film directors
Category:Women pornographic film directors
Category:Pornographic film actors from California
Category:Film directors from California
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century African-American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:20th-century African-American actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Vanessa Blue xxx