Sydnee Steele

Retired former porn star Sydnee Steele was introduced to the industry through a friend, A.J. Crowell, who at the time was publisher and owner of Sundown, a Texas adult entertainment listings guide. Her debut performance in the adult entertainment industry involved being painted like a zebra in a three-girl scene in The Queen's Challenge (1997), with Anna Malle and Jade St. Clair. Her first big feature film was Flashpoint (1997), directed by pornographic actor and director Brad Armstrong, whom she met at a Gentlemen's Expo. She remained freelance early in her career, working with many adult film production companies, including Elegant Angel, Metro Studios, New Sensations, Sin City, VCA Pictures, and Vivid.

In 2001, she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked Pictures, becoming a "Wicked Girl." After that, she performed in mostly plot-based pornographic films (also known as features) and began winning awards. The film for which she garnered the most acclaim was Brad Armstrong's Euphoria. She was awarded AVN's 2002 Best Actress for her role in the film. She was again nominated for Best Actress in 2003 for Falling from Grace and in 2004 for Lost and Found.

After her Wicked contract, she received media coverage in nationally distributed publications, including The New York Times, Time, and Premiere. She was featured in The Learning Channel's Public and Private, where she explains her ideas on the differences between sex in her private life and sex on camera.

In 2004, while filming Pillow Talk, directed by Devinn Lane, she told Adult Video News that she had fallen in love with a man from outside the industry and would only perform girl-girl scenes. It would turn out to be her last pornographic film. Steele left the industry in April 2005.