Jessica Drake

Jessica Drake, born Angel Ryan on October 14, 1974, in San Antonio, Texas, is an American adult film actress, director, writer, producer, and sex educator. She has a younger brother. Raised in Texas, she majored in psychology at the University of Texas-El Paso but left before graduating to pursue adult entertainment, initially working as an exotic dancer in El Paso strip clubs, per IMDb and Wikipedia. About family support, she said that her father only wished his daughter well, and her younger brother has no issues with the career his older sister took. She claimed she was making almost $2,000 a day with stripping across Texas, which justified in her mind dropping out of college. Inspired by watching porn stars perform at her club, she believed she could excel in the industry and debuted in 1999 at age 25, posing for magazines and appearing on Playboy TV before shooting her first film, Pussyman’s Decadent Divas 2, per IAFD and Wikiporno. Using the stage name Jessica Drake (stylized as “jessica drake” in lowercase since 1999 after experimenting with autograph styles, per Babepedia), she appeared in over 553 films, including Shayla’s Web (2001, AVN Best Tease Performance), Fluff and Fold (2005, AVN and XRCO Best Actress—Video), Manhunters (2007, AVN Best Actress—Film), and Fallen (2009, AVN and XRCO Best Actress), per IAFD and IMDb. Known for her 5’9” height, lithe 110-pound …