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In 1997 she signed with Steve Orenstein's company, joining the team of star Jenna Jameson, director Brad Armstrong and publicist Joy King in America's leading small porn company. At age nineteen, the classical dancer saw a tough future in ballet, with the National Academy of the Arts reducing grants, ballet companies folding, and a formidable crop of Russian dancers flooding the market. So Serenity turned her part-time stripping gig into her full time profession. "I'm still on stage and I have more artistic freedom to develop my own style of dance. Being a ballerina is a hard life. You're a starving artist, never getting ahead. There's very little opportunity for a career beyond age 28. A million things can happen meantime, and then your career is over. I had to have a part-time job to survive, so I tried stripping and I liked it." Serenity began in New England. "I wanted to be a headliner so that I could put on shows. I was doing magazine work [posing nude] when the film industry kept asking me if I wanted to be in movies. I thought about it for a few months. Eventually I did the video Jennifer Ate which was for Wicked, the company I'm now signed with." The blonde exotic porn star is the featured Publisher of Deja Vu Showgirls magazine, writing her own column each month as well as articles on her trips and a Q&A section. Serenity helps select which girls the magazine features in its pictorials, judges Déjà Vu contests and makes special appearances for the strip club chain. The stripper-actress-publisher says she found porn "much nicer" than she expected. "It's like a family." Serenity lost her on-screen
hetero-cherry to her husband Steve Justice in 1996's Temptation of Serenity.
The first porn stud to drill her was Colt Steele. "He's good looking,
nice, and doesn't have a foot long dick."
A resident of Las Vegas,
Serenity promotes the use of condoms by insisting on them for all her
hetero scenes. "It's important to set a good example and to show that
safe sex isn't boring sex."
To promote Jack Rocker's
first directorial effort in two years, Wicked enlisted Tad, an intern
at rock station KROQ-FM to be Serenity's personal valet - providing
her with water and towels during her sex scenes. (AVN 10/96)
Jim Holliday and Serenity
form a mutual admiration society. "Jim came up to me at the 1997 CES
and congratulated me on signing with Wicked," Serenity told Mike Albo,
editor of HEVG. "He thought everything would work out great for me and
that if I was ever free to do one of his movies, to call him."
Serenity's primary sexual
orientation appears to be lesbian. "You can just say I have lovers,"
she told the cynical Albo. "I don't like talking about certain parts
of my personal life, but everybody in my personal life supports what
I do. All the people that I am intimate with, outside the business,
are open-minded, non-judgemental, sexually oriented people.
"At this time I don't
feel that I'd be able to direct a movie. But I have some cool ideas.
I'd like to write some scripts and work with a director on developing
them."
Serenity appears in
two AVN Editor's Choice selections of 1997 that were directed by Johnathan
Morgan - Crazed and Indigo Delta. She won her first adult video award
at the Nightmoves Awards Show with Editor's Choice Award Best Actress
1997.
The E Channel's Sex
on the Riviera 97 featured Serenity. She headlined at four different
hotels on the Las Vegas strip and reigns as the topless dancer world
champion. Held at the Stardust Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the contest
had a celebrity panel that included Diana Ross, the son of Sammy Davis
Jr, and the model Fabio.
Serenity also appears
in Enchanted, Time Machine, and Jennas Built for Speed, Lost Angels
and Hollywood Spa.
6/22/01
XXX writes: Is Serenity
leaving Wicked? It would seem a matter of time. On Wicked's latest press
release on pornnewsdaily, Wicked says their biggest project to date
is with new Wickedgirl Sydnee Steele. A sure passover of Serenity. Also
of interest is Serenity's website is no longer with Wicked and has a
new address of serenity.net, dropping the wickedgirl.com. Way to go
Wicked! First award winner Jenna, now award winner Serenity.
Rog Pipe of www.rogreviews.com
writes 2/3/99: OK, here we are on the
last day of CES, finally getting the chance to My pleasure.
Let's get started. Where
were you born?
I was born in Fort Leonardwood,
Missouri.
Is that where you grew
up?
No. I was born on an
army base and a month later we were gone. I grew When is your birthday.
October 29, 1969.
That makes you...
A Scorpio.
No, I mean, hold on.
29? No way.
What do you mean?
Oh man, good thing I
didn't do any age guessing, I would have been I do still get carded
for everything, but I've been in the business You live in Las Vegas
now?
Yes. This is the longest
place I have ever resided, six years now.
Why not LA?
I hate LA to be quite
frank. It's a cool place to visit with all the Or riots
Yeah, too many natural
disasters in one area. Plus I figure if I stay Do the people you grew
up with know what you're doing now?
Well, since I never
really settled in one place for very long, I Are they surprised?
Many are, but it's kind
of weird. I've never been predictable. I've What about your family?
Do they know what I
do? Yes. Do we discuss it over dinner? No. They That's really all you
can ask for.
Absolutely.
When did you do your
first video?
1993. My first video
was Jennifer Ate for Wicked Pictures. It was an Who directed that one?
Jim Enright directed
that particular video for Wicked. I was the star, Who was your first scene
with?
My first scene was with
Alexis DeVell and PJ Sparxx.
How was that?
It was really weird,
because going into I didn't actually think I was When you were done with
that first scene, did you know you wanted to Well, I had to. I had
another scene that day. It was an orgy with Had you been with women
before that scene?
Yeah, I was bi-sexual
before I came into the business.
How many movies have
you done in your career?
I have done over fifty,
but I have lost exact count. Currently, I am So you owe us two extras
in 99.
Yes. The plan is to
put out eight, but who knows?
Are there any that you
are particularly proud of?
There are a few. Pornogothic.
That was kind of my baby project with Do you have any favorite
males to work with?
A few. Alex Sanders
and I obviously do very good scenes together. I How about women?
Women. Lots of women.
It's a little to hard to bring up names because On camera do you prefer
scene with men or women?
Both. It's kind of like,
well, I'm a vegetarian but it's kind of like How tall are you?
5-4
Measurements?
36-25-36
Do you watch your movies?
I do. Unfortunately
I don't watch them for sexual purposes. Usually I What are you looking
for?
I am looking to see
what got put in. I was there so I can say 'why was So you try and learn
from it.
Absolutely.
Since you are under
contract with Wicked, do you have more control Absolutely. Usually
the process is this. I pick my own scripts, I pick Do you plan to direct
your own?
I don't know if I know
enough about the technical aspects to be honest Not knowing enough doesn't
stop many directors in this industry.
I know, but I'm not
that way. I'm more of a perfectionist. I want my Any favorite directors
at this point.
Jonathan Morgan. We
have a special, sibling chemistry that works What are you overall
impressions of the adult industry?
That's kind of a vague
question, don't you think? Break that down.
All right, what about
the HIV situation. Is the business doing enough Well, first of all,
individuals have to help themselves stay safe. I If you had a magic wand
and could just wave it over porn and change The budgets. They would
instantly be bigger.
Do you prefer that acting
you do or the sex scenes.
I like them both. I
especially like the combination of them, because I If there was a mainstream
movie made about porn today, who would you Lisa Kudrow because
she has the character down that is like me. I am How does your on screen
personality reflect or differ from your real It depends on what you're
talking about. Obviously, I don't go around Do you have a fan club
or a web site?
www.wickedgirl.com and
if must do snail mail, which by the way does You've been one of the
more active adult stars on the web, what has Oh, I get a lot of feedback,
especially through email. Most of it is There really isn't a
lot out there for those people.
No, there really isn't.
You still do lots of
feature dancing right?
Oh yes.
Any upcoming dates off
the top of your head?
I'll be in Tampa, Florida
January 20 through the 23rd. Then San Are you saying you don't
think I can get this done by the time you Of course not.
Any body piercing or
tattoos?
None.
Any plans for any?
No. Actually, I had
planned to get my belly button pierced a long time Is there anyone you
have never worked with that you would really like I am sure there are,
but none I can think of off the top of my head.
Are there any things
you won't do on camera.
There are things I won't
do on camera at this time. But I always say What are you outside
interests?
Oh gee, I like to read,
I like to watch X-Files, I like to go to So you basically have
no time at all.
Right, I have no time.
I don't get to actually do any of those things, >From D&D to computers,
I can't believe it. Serenity is like, a total Completely.
Do you have a husband
or boyfriend?
I have someone very
important to me in my life.
Besides me?
Yes, someone besides
you, I'm married to a wonderful guy.
What do you look for
in a guy?
You know what I look
for? Personality. It really has nothing to do You mean they have to
be able to talk?
Yes, they have to say
something. That's what I like, I like good OK, right before CES,
the first annual Rog Reviews fan web poll Yes, I was so amazed.
Are you pleased with
that?
Absolutely, I would
like to thank everyone for voting. I was totally What are some upcoming
projects we should look for?
Double Feature will
be coming out in about a week and a half. I highly Why?
They didn't show me
the bloopers ahead of time, so I don't even know Well, that's all I have,
anything else?
Just keep tuned to the
E channel, I have a bunch of specials coming
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