Kylie Ireland
Encyclopedia
Kylie Ireland is an American pornographic actress
, film director
, producer
, publicist
, and Satellite radio
show host.
, a small community outside Denver. She grew up a good student until her parents divorced when she was 13. At 15 she became rebellious, including experimenting with recreational drugs, until her father sent her to live with her mother, who had remarried, in San Diego, California
. In San Diego, Ireland returned to getting good grades, graduated high school, and started college, majoring in broadcast journalism
. While going to high school and college, Ireland worked part-time ordering videos for a chain of video stores, which she credits for learning a lot about pornographic films.
, partially in Fort Collins, Colorado
, and began to dance in a Fort Collins strip club
. One of her first female lovers was a waitress at the same club who would become the pornographic actress Juli Ashton
.
Kylie Ireland chose her stage name after Australian singer Kylie Minogue
, and her Irish
heritage. She dyed her hair blonde, and had breast implants in 1992.
She entered the pornographic film industry in 1994, through an acquaintance with glamour photographer Warren Tang. Her first films were L'il Ms. Behaved, where she performed with Randy West
, and Up & Cummers 10, with Jenna Jameson
; she started at the same time as Jameson. Ireland moved to Los Angeles
after her first five films, and performed in a total of 80 films her first year, before returning to Colorado intending to slow down her film work.
In January 1995 Ireland was surprised to be named AVN Best New Starlet by Adult Video News Magazine; she was in the bathroom during the awards ceremony when her name was called. This would be the first of many erotic film awards. Fans of X-Rated Entertainment
awarded her the 'Vixen' award in 1995 and the 'Fan Favorite' in 1996. She was named by Playboy
Magazine as one of their Top 10 Porn Stars for 1997. In 2001, AVN listed her among the Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time and in 2005 inducted her into the AVN Hall of Fame
.
From 1995 to 2000, Ireland performed in exclusive contracts, starring in a few films per year, while traveling across America and Europe, strip tease dancing and promoting her films. Her first contract, with Sin City Entertainment, was brief, and ended in a breach of contract
small claims court
lawsuit which went before Judge Judy
on television; Ireland won. That was followed by a five-year contract with VCA Pictures
. Ireland served as VCA's Director of Publicity from 1999 to 2000, before returning to performing freelance. Demonstrating that no hard feelings remained about the lawsuit, she had a one-month stint as Director of Publicity for Sin City in April 2003. In 1996, during her time at VCA, Ireland returned to her natural red hair.
When her contract with VCA expired, Kylie shattered her "girl next door" image by directing her first movie, The Whore Next Door. In this movie, she performed many sex acts on-screen for the first time, including her first double-penetration, double-vag, double-anal, and gangbang. Since then, she has performed in much more extreme scenes, including performing an extended fisting
segment (including anal and DP-fisting) in Corruption, a film which was directed by her boyfriend at the time, Eli Cross.
Ireland continued to direct, first for Jewel DeNyle at Platinum X Pictures, then other companies. In April 2006, she founded her own adult film company, SlutWerkz, which features women directors (and "token male" Eli Cross as head of production) producing and starring in hardcore gonzo pornography
. SlutWerkz launch was delayed from its planned fall 2007 to sometime in 2008 after replacing the original intended distributors. The company originally planned to release one film per month.
for other adult actresses.
During her career, she has had dozens of magazine layouts and covers, an action figure made in her likeness, an exclusive contract with adult toy company Pipedream Products, nearly 400 adult movies, and mainstream projects, including appearances on the television series Tales From The Crypt
and 20th Century Fox
film Strange Days
.
From October 2003 to February 2006, Ireland hosted a weekly Internet radio
show, Kylie Live on ksexradio.com
, about the pornography industry. She won the KSEX Radio Listener's Choice Award for "Best Radio Voice" in 2004, and the "Best Insight into the Adult Business" award for 2005. In February 2006, Ireland became the host of sex talk show Private Calls, on Friday evenings for Playboy Radio
on Sirius Radio.
In June 2008, Ireland began hosting a new show with adult performer Derrick Pierce called The Friday Night Threeway. This show replaced Private Calls in the Friday night timeslot, and featured a different format more focused on guest interviews, relationships and sex-related humor.
In November 2010, Ireland launched a new weekend show on Spice radio called The Jerkbox The show took over where "The Friday Night Threeway" left off, it features guest interviews, segments revolving around the world of sex & porn-related topics.
Around January 2011, Ireland started a website called Bombed Out LA along with her husband, which uses her love of photography to capture and publish street art in Los Angeles.
In March 2011, it was discovered after a Television interview that Ireland was also street artist DeeKay.
Ireland says that she "dabbled" in recreational drugs, even before entering the adult industry; she tried most drugs, and used crystal meth
for a time to stay thin, but her main drug of choice was alcohol. In 2001 she realized her drinking
was becoming a problem. She has been clean and sober
since August 2001.
As of 2007, Ireland lived in a 10000 square feet (929 m²) renovated 1927 warehouse loft in downtown Los Angeles
, with pornographic director Eli Cross, her boyfriend of six years. They had seven cats and a dog.
In 2010 Kylie split with Eli & got married to an Englishman, retired nightclub manager Andy Appleton, following a whirlwind romance, she now lives just outside of Los Angeles.
Pornographic actor
A pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...
, film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
, publicist
Publicist
A publicist is a person whose job is to generate and manage publicity for a public figure, especially a celebrity, a business, or for a work such as a book, film or album...
, and Satellite radio
Satellite radio
Satellite radio is an analogue or digital radio signal that is relayed through one or more satellites and thus can be received in a much wider geographical area than terrestrial FM radio stations...
show host.
Early life
Ireland was born on May 26, 1972, in Longmont, ColoradoLongmont, Colorado
Longmont is a Home Rule Municipality in Boulder and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. Longmont is located in Northern Colorado. Longmont is the 13th most populous city in the State of Colorado. The word "Longmont" comes from Longs Peak, a prominent mountain named for explorer Stephen H....
, a small community outside Denver. She grew up a good student until her parents divorced when she was 13. At 15 she became rebellious, including experimenting with recreational drugs, until her father sent her to live with her mother, who had remarried, in San Diego, California
San Diego, California
San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
. In San Diego, Ireland returned to getting good grades, graduated high school, and started college, majoring in broadcast journalism
Broadcast journalism
Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are "broadcast", that is, published by electrical methods, instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. Broadcast methods include radio , television , and, especially recently, the Internet generally...
. While going to high school and college, Ireland worked part-time ordering videos for a chain of video stores, which she credits for learning a lot about pornographic films.
Pornography career
Ireland returned to Colorado to continue college partially in Boulder, ColoradoBoulder, Colorado
Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...
, partially in Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2010 census...
, and began to dance in a Fort Collins strip club
Strip club
A strip club is an adult entertainment venue in which striptease or other erotic or exotic dance is regularly performed. Strip clubs typically adopt a nightclub or bar style, but can also adopt a theatre or cabaret-style....
. One of her first female lovers was a waitress at the same club who would become the pornographic actress Juli Ashton
Juli Ashton
Juli Ashton is an American pornographic actress and television host.- Education :After Ashton graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Spanish and History, she taught Spanish at a junior high school for a year.- Adult film career :In 1994, she moved to Florida, and began appearing...
.
Kylie Ireland chose her stage name after Australian singer Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
, and her Irish
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
heritage. She dyed her hair blonde, and had breast implants in 1992.
She entered the pornographic film industry in 1994, through an acquaintance with glamour photographer Warren Tang. Her first films were L'il Ms. Behaved, where she performed with Randy West
Randy West
Randy West is an American television personality who is best known for his work on game shows. He has been an announcer on American television game shows since 1990, with credits including Supermarket Sweep, Trivial Pursuit, Hollywood Showdown, and a substitute role on The Price Is Right.West's...
, and Up & Cummers 10, with Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson is an American entrepreneur and former pornographic actress, who has been called the world's most famous adult-entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn."...
; she started at the same time as Jameson. Ireland moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
after her first five films, and performed in a total of 80 films her first year, before returning to Colorado intending to slow down her film work.
In January 1995 Ireland was surprised to be named AVN Best New Starlet by Adult Video News Magazine; she was in the bathroom during the awards ceremony when her name was called. This would be the first of many erotic film awards. Fans of X-Rated Entertainment
Fans of X-Rated Entertainment
Fans of X-Rated Entertainment is a United States based pornography fan organization founded by legendary adult film actor, director, and critic William Margold, and actress Viper...
awarded her the 'Vixen' award in 1995 and the 'Fan Favorite' in 1996. She was named by Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
Magazine as one of their Top 10 Porn Stars for 1997. In 2001, AVN listed her among the Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time and in 2005 inducted her into the AVN Hall of Fame
AVN Hall of Fame
This is a list of members of the AVN Hall of Fame. The AVN Hall of Fame honors the legends of the adult entertainment industry.- AVN Hall of Fame members :[Top]| style="vertical-align:top; width:15px;"|...
.
From 1995 to 2000, Ireland performed in exclusive contracts, starring in a few films per year, while traveling across America and Europe, strip tease dancing and promoting her films. Her first contract, with Sin City Entertainment, was brief, and ended in a breach of contract
Breach of contract
Breach of contract is a legal cause of action in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party's performance....
small claims court
Small claims court
Small-claims courts have limited jurisdiction to hear civil cases between private litigants. Courts authorized to try small claims may also have other judicial functions, and the name by which such a court is known varies by jurisdiction; it may be known as a county or magistrate's court...
lawsuit which went before Judge Judy
Judge Judy
Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...
on television; Ireland won. That was followed by a five-year contract with VCA Pictures
VCA Pictures
VCA Pictures is an American pornographic film production and distribution company. The company was founded by Russ Hampshire, and was formerly a major player during the 'Golden Age of Porn'. Throughout the 70's and 80's VCA produced big budget, plot-oriented feature films...
. Ireland served as VCA's Director of Publicity from 1999 to 2000, before returning to performing freelance. Demonstrating that no hard feelings remained about the lawsuit, she had a one-month stint as Director of Publicity for Sin City in April 2003. In 1996, during her time at VCA, Ireland returned to her natural red hair.
When her contract with VCA expired, Kylie shattered her "girl next door" image by directing her first movie, The Whore Next Door. In this movie, she performed many sex acts on-screen for the first time, including her first double-penetration, double-vag, double-anal, and gangbang. Since then, she has performed in much more extreme scenes, including performing an extended fisting
Fisting
Fisting is a sexual activity that involves inserting a hand into the vagina or rectum. Once insertion is complete, the fingers either naturally clench into a fist or remain straight. In more vigorous forms of fisting, such as "punching", a fully clenched fist may be inserted and withdrawn slowly...
segment (including anal and DP-fisting) in Corruption, a film which was directed by her boyfriend at the time, Eli Cross.
Ireland continued to direct, first for Jewel DeNyle at Platinum X Pictures, then other companies. In April 2006, she founded her own adult film company, SlutWerkz, which features women directors (and "token male" Eli Cross as head of production) producing and starring in hardcore gonzo pornography
Gonzo pornography
Gonzo pornography is a style of pornographic film that attempts to place the viewer directly into the scene. The name is a reference to gonzo journalism, in which the reporter is part of the event taking place...
. SlutWerkz launch was delayed from its planned fall 2007 to sometime in 2008 after replacing the original intended distributors. The company originally planned to release one film per month.
Beyond films
Ireland started her personal website, http://www.kylieireland.com, in 1996, becoming one of the first pornographic actresses on the Web; she describes it as "my obsession." She does Web consulting and public relationsPublic relations
Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
for other adult actresses.
During her career, she has had dozens of magazine layouts and covers, an action figure made in her likeness, an exclusive contract with adult toy company Pipedream Products, nearly 400 adult movies, and mainstream projects, including appearances on the television series Tales From The Crypt
Tales from the Crypt (TV series)
Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO...
and 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
film Strange Days
Strange Days (film)
Strange Days is a 1995 cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced and co-written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott and Vincent D'Onofrio. Despite positive reviews, the film was a...
.
From October 2003 to February 2006, Ireland hosted a weekly Internet radio
Internet radio
Internet radio is an audio service transmitted via the Internet...
show, Kylie Live on ksexradio.com
KSEX
KSEX , also known as, KSEXradio, was an online radio station which discussed topics on sex and pornography, and was one of the only adult Internet radio stations specializing in news and current events in the United States pornography industry...
, about the pornography industry. She won the KSEX Radio Listener's Choice Award for "Best Radio Voice" in 2004, and the "Best Insight into the Adult Business" award for 2005. In February 2006, Ireland became the host of sex talk show Private Calls, on Friday evenings for Playboy Radio
Playboy Radio
Playboy Radio is a radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio. Playboy Radio was originally launched on XM Satellite Radio in September 2002. Included were programs such as Night Calls Radio, originally hosted by adult film star Juli Ashton and Playboy TV star Tiffany Granath...
on Sirius Radio.
In June 2008, Ireland began hosting a new show with adult performer Derrick Pierce called The Friday Night Threeway. This show replaced Private Calls in the Friday night timeslot, and featured a different format more focused on guest interviews, relationships and sex-related humor.
In November 2010, Ireland launched a new weekend show on Spice radio called The Jerkbox The show took over where "The Friday Night Threeway" left off, it features guest interviews, segments revolving around the world of sex & porn-related topics.
Around January 2011, Ireland started a website called Bombed Out LA along with her husband, which uses her love of photography to capture and publish street art in Los Angeles.
In March 2011, it was discovered after a Television interview that Ireland was also street artist DeeKay.
Personal life
Ireland got divorced after a ten year marriage to a man outside pornography. They had been married three years before she become a pornographic actress, and she says the divorce was not due to her career.Ireland says that she "dabbled" in recreational drugs, even before entering the adult industry; she tried most drugs, and used crystal meth
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs...
for a time to stay thin, but her main drug of choice was alcohol. In 2001 she realized her drinking
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...
was becoming a problem. She has been clean and sober
Sobriety
Sobriety is the condition of not having any measurable levels, or effects from, alcohol or other drugs that alter ones mood or behaviors. According to WHO "Lexicon of alcohol and drug terms..." sobriety is continued abstinence from alcohol and psychoactive drug use...
since August 2001.
As of 2007, Ireland lived in a 10000 square feet (929 m²) renovated 1927 warehouse loft in downtown Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, with pornographic director Eli Cross, her boyfriend of six years. They had seven cats and a dog.
In 2010 Kylie split with Eli & got married to an Englishman, retired nightclub manager Andy Appleton, following a whirlwind romance, she now lives just outside of Los Angeles.
Awards
- 1993 - Cutty Sark Dance Performer of the Year
- 1995 - AVN Awards - Best New Starlet
- 1995 - F.O.X.E. AwardsFans of X-Rated EntertainmentFans of X-Rated Entertainment is a United States based pornography fan organization founded by legendary adult film actor, director, and critic William Margold, and actress Viper...
- Vixen - 1996 - F.O.X.E. Awards - Fan Favorite
- 2002 - Rocky Mtn Oyster Hall of Fame
- 2004 - KSEX Radio - Best Radio Voice
- 2005 - AVN Awards - Hall of Fame
- 2005 - KSEX Radio - Best Insight into the Adult Business
- 2006 - XRCO AwardsXRCO awardsThe XRCO Awards are given by the X-Rated Critics Organization annually to people working in adult entertainment. Some of the works and workers are inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame during the awards.The XRCO online archive is missing results prior to 1993...
- Hall of FameXRCO Hall of FameXRCO Hall of Fame lists some of the most notable adult entertainment works and workers. The list is managed by X-Rated Critics Organization and inducted annually during the XRCO awards.-Actors:* 1985 John C... - 2006 - Adam Film World Guide - Most Outrageous Series; Twisted as Fuck (Director/Performer)
- 2006 - Adam Film World Guide - Best Movie; Corruption (Producer)
- 2006 - CAVR Awards - Scene of the Year (Corruption)
- 2006 - Beverly Hills Outlook Film Producer of the Year; Corruption (Producer)
- 2006 - Beverly Hills Outlook Performance Artist of the Year; Corruption (Performer)
- 2007 - AVN Awards - Best Feature; Corruption (Producer)
- 2007 - NightMoves - Triple Play Award (Dancing/Performing/Directing)
- 2007 - NightMoves - Best Feature Production/Fan's Choice; Corruption (Producer)
- 2008 - XRCO AwardsXRCO awardsThe XRCO Awards are given by the X-Rated Critics Organization annually to people working in adult entertainment. Some of the works and workers are inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame during the awards.The XRCO online archive is missing results prior to 1993...
- MILF of the Year - 2008 - AVN Awards - Best Supporting Actress (Film) - Layout
- 2008 - AVN Awards - Best Oral Scene (Film) - Layout
- 2008 - AVN Awards - Best DVD extras - Upload (Producer)
- 2008 - AVN Awards - Best Feature - Upload (Producer/Production Designer)
- 2008 - AVN Awards - Best Supporting Actress (Film) - Layout
- 2008 - AVN Awards - Best Oral Scene (Film) - Layout
- 2009 - Nightmoves Best All Girl Release/Editor's Choice - Violation of Kylie Ireland
- 2010 - Legends of Erotica Hall of Fame
- 2010 - AVN Awards - Best Feature; The 8th Day (Producer/Production Designer)
External links
- 3 Kylie Ireland Interviews, 2001-12-06 online chatOnline chatOnline chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, that offers an instantaneous transmission of text-based messages from sender to receiver, hence the delay for visual access to the sent message shall not hamper the flow of communications in any of the directions...
transcript; 2001-08-21 on set interview by Melissa Monet; 2001-03-05 telephone interview by Juliet at Pornstar Empire. Retrieved 2007-12-10. - "Kylie Ireland Interview", by Al Kikuras, at Unchain the Underground. 2002. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- "Kylie Ireland Interview", November 17, 2003, HardcoreGossip.com. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- "Kylie Ireland Interview 2004", by Roger T. Pipe, at rogreview.com, June 18, 2004. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- Kylie Ireland's blog
- Biography at LukeIsBack.com