Jessica Drake

Jessica Drake — Biography & Career

Jessica Drake is an American adult performer, director, screenwriter, and sex educator. She spent two years as a contract performer for Sin City, ending on May 31, 2002. In 2001, she received her first AVN Award for Best Tease Performance for Shayla's Web, and in 2003 she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked Pictures.

Her on-screen work brought repeated industry awards. For Fluff and Fold, a romantic comedy set around a laundromat, she won the 2005 AVN Award for Best Actress, Video and the 2005 XRCO Award for Single Performance, Actress. In 2007, she co-hosted the AVN Awards with Jim Norton and won the AVN Award for Best Actress, Film for Manhunters. She earned a third AVN Best Actress award in 2009 for Fallen, and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2010 and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2011.

Drake also worked behind the camera. After serving as assistant director to Brad Armstrong on Coming Home, she made her directorial debut in 2008 with What Girls Like. She began writing screenplays during her Sin City years and later wrote Dating 101, Love Always, and Just Between Us. She also appeared on The Tyra Banks Show, in the mainstream comedy Barry Munday, and in Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's video for Telephone.

With Wicked Pictures, Drake launched the educational series Jessica Drake's Guide to Wicked Sex. Its first release won AVN's 2012 award for Best Educational Release, and another installment received XBIZ's 2012 Specialty Release of the Year. She has taught seminars and workshops internationally, including programs at UCLA, CatalystCon West, and the University of Chicago. In 2014, Love, Jessica, a documentary series directed by Kai Soremekun, began airing on The Movie Network and Movie Central. She also formed a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2012 for domestic charitable efforts.

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