Rayveness

Rayveness is a former pornographic actress.

Rayveness grew up in the Quaker faith and married a year before she left high school. After she and her husband saw a show on amateur porn films on the Sally Jessy Raphaël show, they proceeded to send one in.

She started in the porn industry at age 18 and initially performed only with her then-husband (who went by the pseudonym of Red Bone and other female stars. Her stage name is of Indian origin and means "of the spirit". In 1997, she divorced Red Bone and started working with other male performers. By 2000, she had remarried to fellow porn star Todd Alexander, but they divorced by 2003.

In 2000, she took a break from the adult film business to try the mainstream film industry. She dyed her hair red and wore brown contacts to minimize the chance of someone recognizing her. She appeared in a speaking role on NYPD Blue and was in Path to War as LBJ’s eldest daughter. She returned to the porn industry in 2003 after John Frankenheimer's death, as most of her connections had gone.

In 2004, she filed a petition with Congressman Brad Sherman requesting that the age requirement for adult performers be raised from 18 to 21, saying that "People right out of high school in this country don't seem to have the foresight to make such life-altering decisions. In 2006 she was nominated at the XRCO awards for "MILF Of The Year".

RayVeness took a second break from the adult industry — from June ’06 to Aug. ’07 — to have a child via in vitro fertilization.

In July 2009 she became the first contract star for the all-girl studio Girlfriends Films, although the contract allowed her to continue boy-girl work elsewhere; she has since left Girlfriend Films.

In February 2011, she announced via twitter that she had retired from the adult industry.

Awards/ nominations :-

2009 AVN Award nominee – Best All-Girl Couples Sex Scene – Women Seeking Women 44.

2009 AVN Award nominee – MILF / Cougar Performer of the Year.

2010 AVN Award nominee – Best POV Sex Scene – Jerkoff Material 2.

2010 XRCO Award nominee – Unsung Siren.

2010 XRCO Award nominee – MILF Of The Year.

2011 AVN Award nominee – Best Supporting Actress – Couples Camp.

2011 AVN Award nominee – MILF / Cougar Performer of the Year.

2011 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee.