Lexington Steele
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Lexington Steele (2000)
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| Birthdate: | November 28, 1969 |
| Birth location: | New Jersey, U.S. |
| Birth name: | Clifton Todd Britt |
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[1] |
| Eye color: | Brown |
| Hair color: | Bald |
| Orientation: | Heterosexual |
| Ethnicity: | African American |
| Stage Name(s): | The Impaler, Lex Steele |
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Lexington Steele, Лексингтон Стил (born Clifton Todd Britt[2] on November 28, 1969 in New Jersey), is an American pornographic actor and director. Best known for his exceptionally large penis[citation needed], he is the only actor to have won the AVN Male Performer of the Year Award three times.[2]
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[edit] Education, career prior to porn
Steele graduated from Morristown High School in 1987.[citation needed] He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia for two years but graduated from Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences with a double degree in History and African-American studies in 1993.[2] He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
After graduation, he worked in New York City as a stock broker in the World Trade Center starting as a trainee in Euro Brokers Inc and working his way up the chain of command. He was licensed as a financial adviser and working on Wall Street within months of graduating. He claims that he would have been in the buildings and been a victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks had he kept his old job as a stockbroker.[3] He worked as a model on the side and acted in minor TV roles.
[edit] Adult film career
He started to act in adult movies in the latter part of 1997, in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles and joined the industry full-time in March 1998.
Initially he shot mainly for the companies West Coast Productions and director Spunky. Later, he appeared on videotapes produced by Anabolic and Diabolic. He is notorious for his dramatic screams upon ejaculation[citation needed],and has shot several scenes in which he experiences at least two orgasms, with seemingly no refractory period in between ejaculations[citation needed]. With pornstar Velicity Von in Silverback Attack 2, he achieves three fully ejaculatory orgasms in the scene.
His professional name is in reference to Remington Steele in combination with Lexington Avenue.[citation needed]
Steele won AVN Male Performer of the Year Awards in 2000, 2002 and 2003, the only actor to win three times. In 2005, Steele was awarded the AVN Award for Best Anal Scene and the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) Award for Best Sex Scene, Couple for a scene he did together with his co-star Katsumi in "Lex Steele XXX 3". Other XRCO Awards he has won are best Male Performer and Best Threeway, both of which he won in 2001. He specializes in interracial pornography. He owns many websites dedicated to his sexual endeavors with caucasian, Asian & latin american models. Most of his female counterparts are in their twenties.
Steele has been linked romantically off-film to actresses Calli Cox and Nikita Denise. He was once falsely rumored to be the father of Calli Cox's son.[4] At one point, Lexington was engaged to porn actress and director Vanessa Blue,[5] and the two have appeared together on Playboy TV (in his two-season show "Lex in the City") and in several movies. They split in June 2006.[6]
Steele now directs and performs exclusively for his own production company, Mercenary Motion Pictures (Headquarters Location Encino, CA ), which he founded in 2003 and serves as chairman and CEO since 2005. The company reported annual net profits of $2.6 million in 2005.[5] He belives that his company will be the first adult entertainment company to be trade in NYSE.
Recently he signed a major contract with Microsoft to embed Silverlight technology in his websites.
Steele has said that his stage name came about back during the days when he worked as a stock broker when he took the subway to visit a client. At that time he had already decided to move in the adult film industry and use the last name "Steele". His client was located in mid-town and Steele got off the subway at the corner of Madison and Lexington [sic][7] where he was struck by the sound of "Lexington" as a first name.[8]
[edit] Religion
Steele stated that he is a religious man (Baptist), continuing:
- "Yes, I am religious. I am Christian, Baptist. I grew up in as close to a Cosby-show lifestyle as you can get. Doing porno, on a repeated basis, I am committing Coitus interruptus like Onan. I’m not married, so I’m fornicating for a living. I’m paid to have sex, which means what? I’m prostituting by definition. These are things I have to reckon with my God on a daily basis. I knowingly do these things.
- My decision to do porno has forced me to take my religion within. Because of my job I am stronger in my relationship with God, because now I take God with me everywhere I go; if I don’t, I’ll fail. I didn’t know that God blessed me with an abnormally large penis that allows me to make porno. But I feel blessed. I believe I am blessed because I am meant to please one woman for the rest of our lives together. True, I haven’t met her yet."[3]
In a 2008 interview he also said:
- "People who are spiritual, like myself, we carry our spirituality inside of ourselves. I don’t believe any institution has any hierarchy on my personal relationship with God. I have been blessed with physical attributes that have allowed me to provide entertainment. What I do is not illegal so I am not at odds with anything. I’m not married so I am not committing adultery. If I be damned for fornication, then I am no much unlike then the billions of people who walk this earth today."[9]
[edit] Politics
During his study in faculty of African-American studies, he developed a high awareness to American politics and African-American rights in particular. The major attention of his studies was Dr Martin Luther King and his dream fulfillment. Recently he expressed his support in Barack Obama's presidential campaign along with Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder and Denzel Washington.[2] He beilives that Obama will pave the way for many other african-americans like he did.
[edit] Popular Culture
Steele appeared in two episodes of Showtime's "Weeds" in 2007. He played himself at a movie shoot filming a scene with Kirsten Price and Jessica Jaymes.
Steele also starred in an episode of the FX series .....Nip/Tuck as a male escort at a party.
[edit] References
- ^ Rog (July 2001). Lexington Steele Interview. rogreviews.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
- ^ a b c d Joshua Alston (2005-11-10). A coming-of-age tale of one SU graduate's journey from stock quotes to deep throats. The Daily Orange. Retrieved on 2007-08-25.
- ^ a b Inside the Adult Film Industry: A Lexington Steele interview, The Advocate, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2004
- ^ Porn Valley Dispatch: The Kid is Not My Son (July 6, 2006). Retrieved on August 13, 2006.
- ^ a b Interview at AUC Magazine, March 2006
- ^ Gram Ponante (2006-6-20). Vanessa Blue splits with Lex, Mercenary. gramponante.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
- ^ It should be pointed out, however, that Madison Avenue and Lexington Avenue do in fact not intersect, but run parallel their entire courses with Park Avenue between them.
- ^ Joanne Cachapero (2007-06-12). Lexington Steele. Eros-NY. Retrieved on 2007-06-19.
- ^ SJ Brown (2008-01-28). Lexington Steele: Iron Man. hiphopdx.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-03.
