Lexington Steele

Lexington Steele, is an African-American pornographic actor and director. Best known for his exceptionally large penis, he is the only actor to have won the AVN Male Performer of the Year Award three times.

Originally from Ohio, Steele graduated from Morristown High School in 1987. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia for two years but graduated from Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences with a double degree in History and African-American studies in 1993. He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. He started to act in adult movies in the latter part of 1997, in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles and joined the industry full-time in March 1998.

Initially he shot mainly for the companies West Coast Productions and director Spunky. Later, he appeared on videotapes produced by Anabolic and Diabolic. He is notorious for his dramatic screams upon ejaculation.

Steele won AVN Male Performer of the Year Awards in 2000, 2002 and 2003, the only actor to win three times. In 2005, Steele was awarded the AVN Award for Best Anal Scene and the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) Award for Best Sex Scene, Couple for a scene he did together with his co-star Katsumi in "Lex Steele XXX 3". Other XRCO Awards he has won are best Male Performer and Best Threeway, both of which he won in 2001.

Steele now directs and performs exclusively for his own production company, Mercenary Motion Pictures, which he founded in 2003 and serves as chairman and CEO since 2005.