Lexington Steele
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Clifton Todd Britt better known as Lexington Steele, is an American
United States
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 award-winning pornographic actor
Pornographic actor
A pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...

, director and owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures Inc. He is the first actor to have won the AVN Male Performer of the Year Award
AVN Awards
The AVN Awards are movie awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine AVN to honor exceptional performance in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic movies. They are called the "Oscars of porn"...

 three times.

Education, career prior to porn

Steele was born in New Jersey
New Jersey
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. After attending Morristown High School
Morristown High School
Morristown High School is a four-year public high school serving students in grades 9 - 12 from three communities in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Morris School District...

, he attended Morehouse College
Morehouse College
Morehouse College is a private, all-male, liberal arts, historically black college located in Atlanta, Georgia. Along with Hampden-Sydney College and Wabash College, Morehouse is one of three remaining traditional men's colleges in the United States....

 in Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
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 for two years but graduated from Syracuse University's
Syracuse University
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 College of Arts and Sciences with a double degree in History and African-American studies in 1993.

After graduation, he worked in New York City
New York City
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 as a stock broker
Stock broker
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 in the World Trade Center
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 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
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 had he kept his old job as a stockbroker. He worked as a model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

 on the side and acted in minor TV roles.

Adult film career

He started to act in adult movies in the later part of 1997, in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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 and joined the industry full-time in March 1998.

Initially he shot mainly for the companies such as West Coast Productions and director Spunky. Later, he appeared on videotapes produced by Anabolic
Anabolic Video
Anabolic Video is an American pornographic movie studio headquartered in Chatsworth, California. The studio was a pioneer of gonzo pornography, and is considered one of the most successful gonzo producers.-History:...

 and Diabolic
Diabolic Video
Diabolic Video Productions is an American pornographic movie studio headquartered in Chatsworth, California. The company was originally a sister-studio of Anabolic Video...

. Later on at the beginning of 2004 he joined Red Light District Video
Red Light District Video
Red Light District Video is an American pornographic film studio headquartered in Chatsworth, California.-History:The company was founded in 2001 by industry veteran Dion Giarrusso and his half-brother David Joseph, who co-owned the company. Giarrusso had previously worked as general manager of...

 for a brief period.

Steele now directs and performs exclusively for his own production company, Mercenary Motion Pictures (Headquarters in Encino, California), 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. He believes that his company will be the first adult entertainment company to be traded on the NYSE.Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $10 to 20 million and employs a staff of approximately 10 to 19.

Steele won AVN Male Performer of the Year Awards
AVN Awards
The AVN Awards are movie awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine AVN to honor exceptional performance in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic movies. They are called the "Oscars of porn"...

 in 2000, 2002 and 2003, the first actor to win three times. In 2000, Steele was awarded the AVN Award for Best Anal Scene with Anastasia Blue
Anastasia Blue
Anastasia Blue was the stage name of Elena Behm, an American pornographic actress. She was married to Gabriel Behm and lived in Bremerton, Washington in the last years of her life....

 and In 2005 he won the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) Award for Best Couple Sex Scene for a scene he did together with his co-star Katsuni
Katsuni
Katsuni is a French pornographic actress.-Biography:Katsuni is of French/Vietnamese heritage. Her father is Vietnamese and her mother's family is French...

 in "Lex Steele XXX 3". He is largely featured in interracial pornography.

Steele was engaged to porn actress and director Vanessa Blue
Vanessa Blue
Vanessa Blue is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and director.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...

, and the two have appeared together on Playboy TV
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 (in his two-season show Lex in the City) and in several movies. They split in June 2006. In 2008, Steele and Blue filed federal lawsuit
Lawsuit
A lawsuit or "suit in law" is a civil action brought in a court of law in which a plaintiff, a party who claims to have incurred loss as a result of a defendant's actions, demands a legal or equitable remedy. The defendant is required to respond to the plaintiff's complaint...

s 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
Alternative dispute resolution
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 jurist
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.

Stage Name

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] where he was struck by the sound of "Lexington" as a first name.

Politics

During his time studying African-American studies, Steele developed a high awareness of American politics and African-American rights in particular. In 2008 he expressed his support for Barack Obama
Barack Obama
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's presidential campaign. He said that Obama will pave the way for many other successful African-Americans. Steele was the second adult entertainment figure to publicly express support for a 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate, after Amber Lynn
Amber Lynn
Amber Lynn is an American pornographic film actress, Model and exotic dancer.- Early life :...

 expressed her support for Hillary Clinton.

Popular culture

Steele appeared in two episodes of Showtime's Weeds
Weeds (TV series)
Weeds is an American television comedy created by Jenji Kohan and produced by Tilted Productions in association with Lionsgate Television. The central character is Nancy Botwin , a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling marijuana to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a...

in 2007. He played himself at a movie shoot filming a scene with Kirsten Price and Jessica Jaymes
Jessica Jaymes
Jessica Jaymes is an American pornographic actress.-Early life:Jaymes was born in Anchorage, Alaska to a Czechoslovakian and French mother and a Seminole father-who at an early age of ten relocated to Arizona. Her father was an under cover DEA agent and patrolmen...

.

Steele also starred in an episode of the FX series Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy...

as a male escort at a party.

Appeared in Crank 2: High Voltage
Crank 2: High Voltage
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.

Awards

  • 2000 AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year
  • 2000 AVN Award for Best Anal Sex Scene (Video) (with Anastasia Blue
    Anastasia Blue
    Anastasia Blue was the stage name of Elena Behm, an American pornographic actress. She was married to Gabriel Behm and lived in Bremerton, Washington in the last years of her life....

    )
  • 2001 AVN Award for Best Couples Sex Scene (with Inari Vachs
    Inari Vachs
    Inari Vachs is an American pornographic actress.She entered the industry in November 1997 at age 23, and has since appeared in close to 380 films....

    )
  • 2001 XRCO Award for Male Performer of the Year
  • 2002 AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year
  • 2003 AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year
  • 2003 AVN Award for Best Anal Sex Scene (with Jewel De'Nyle
    Jewel De'Nyle
    Jewel De'Nyle is a former American pornographic actress and director. She is of Spanish, Sicilian, English, and Blackfoot Native American ancestry....

    )
  • 2005 XRCO Award for Best Male-Female Scene (With Katsumi
    Katsuni
    Katsuni is a French pornographic actress.-Biography:Katsuni is of French/Vietnamese heritage. Her father is Vietnamese and her mother's family is French...

    )
  • 2005 AVN Award for Best Gonzo Release
  • 2006 AVN Award for Best Interracial Release
  • 2009 AVN Hall of Fame
    AVN Hall of Fame
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     inductee
  • 2009 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee
  • 2009 Hot d'Or
    Hot d'Or
    Hot d'Or was an adult film industry Pornographic award, awarded annually from 1992 to 2001 in Cannes, France by the French magazine Hot Vidéo. It has been described as the porn equivalent of the Palme d'Or or the Academy Awards. The analogous American honor is the AVN Award...

     for Best American Male Performer
  • 2011 AVN awards best interracial scene-lex the impaler 5

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