Born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1969, Lexington Steele took an unusual path to becoming a porn actor. He attended Syracuse University, and graduated in 1993 with a double bachelor’s degree. After that he became a securities trader. He won the AVN award for Male Performer of the Year in 2000, while porn was still his side gig, and quit to perform full-time in 2001. Since then, he’s performed in dozens of films, including Babes in Pornland: Interracial Babes and Lex Steele XXX 3, for which he won the AVN award for Best Anal Sex Scene in 2003 and 2005 respectively.