Stormy Daniels Top Porn Star

Crowned "The New Queen Of X" by the Girls Of Penthouse magazine, Wicked Pictures contract superstar and Penthouse Pet Stormy Daniels has redefined the very term "superstar" thanks to Operation Desert Stormy, the most ambitious project of her career as a writer, director, and performer. The movie's peerless blend of eroticism, humor, and explosive action has already led the tastemakers at Adult DVD Empire to call it "the greatest porn movie ever made."

Adult Video News has been nearly as emphatic with their praise, making it an Editor's Choice and giving it 16 2008 AVN Nominations. The movie received recognition in virtually every major awards category, including Best Director, Best Screenplay - Video (Stormy Daniels), Best Sex Comedy, Best High-Definition Production, Best Actor - Video (Steven St. Croix), Best Packaging, Best Supporting Actor - Video (Marcus London), and Best Editing - Video (Jonathan Morgan). Her stylish comedy For Love, Money, Or A Green Card was also recognized with a Best Sex Comedy nomination, as was The One, which she wrote and starred in for director Jonathan Morgan. Daniels' darkly intense The Predator, which she both shot and starred in, received a nom for Best All-Girl Release. The scope of Stormy's talent and influence was further acknowledged with nominations in categories as diverse as Best Actress - Video (for Michael Raven's Black Widow), Director Of The Year (Body Of Work), Female Performer Of The Year, and, as befits someone with such a high mainstream media profile, the Jenna Jameson Crossover Star Of The Year award.

In the adult realm alone, Stormy has been receiving recognition for over five years. She won AVN's coveted Best New Starlet award in 2004, and received nominations for her fine work in both Eternity and Space Nuts. The latter was featured in HBO's popular Pornucopia, and also led to her getting roles in both Judd Apatow's $100 million-grossing Steve Carell blockbuster The 40 Year Old Virgin, and its semi-sequel, Knocked Up. (The DVD edition of producer Apatow's Superbad features Stormy as well). Interestingly, the release of The 40 Year Old Virgin coincided with Stormy winning "Centerfold of the Year" from High Society. The magazine soon offered her the position of entertainment editor, which she happily accepted.

While any look at Stormy's career is bound to emphasize stardom and glamour, there are many other facets to the woman as well. An inventive writer, she was only with Wicked for four months when she wrote her first screenplay, Kink. Her contract was soon expanded to include writing. She directed her first film, One Night In Vegas in 2004, and true recognition of her diverse talents came at the 2006 AVN Awards, where she won both Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for The Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre. Stormy has since formed Stormy Industries, a production company designed to create new product to be distributed through Wicked Pictures. She has penned, directed, and starred in such popular erotic comedies as 3 Wishes and Sleeping Around. The high quality of her output was rewarded when the 2007 AVN nominations were announced, and she received a fistful of noms that spoke to the richness of her talent, including Best Director - Video (for Gossip), Crossover Star Of The Year, Best Actress - Video (for Taken), Best Screenplay - Video (for 3 Wishes), and Contract Star Of The Year, which she also won!

Eager to share her story with the world, Stormy wrote of her successful transition from actress to director in the book Naked Ambition, and toured to promote its release. In the last two years, she has walked the red carpet at the Grammys and countless other Hollywood events, graced the pages of Playboy Mexico and Penthouse, performed live comedy with SNL veteran Tim Meadows, played a recurring role on Dirt with Courteney Cox (now out on DVD), appeared on Nightline and Mind Of Mencia, and joined Wicked's Joy King on AMC's Sunday Morning Shootout. She can also be seen in a special "Easter Egg" in the DVD edition of the hugely successful Superbad. Her marketing outreach includes a licensing deal for posters, special novelty cards, and calendars which are available in mainstream retail outlets nationwide.

With Last Night in stores, Predator 2, already wrapped, and Bound on the horizon, Wicked Girl and Penthouse Pet Stormy Daniels continues to look to the future and grow in a business she loves.

Biography Courtesy Wicked Pictures