Drake spent two years as a contract performer for the studio Sin City until May 31, 2002, when her contract expired.[2] She gained her first AVN Award in 2001, winning "Best Tease Performance" for her role in VCA Pictures' Shayla's Web.[3] In 2003, she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked Pictures.[4]
In 2004, during an HIV outbreak in the industry, she stated that she had only performed with men who wore condoms,[5] although she added that "working without condoms in the industry is less dangerous than going home with someone who you just met randomly in a bar."[6]
Her performance in Fluff and Fold, a romantic comedy set around a laundromat,[7] earned her the 2005 AVN Award for Best Actress, Video and the 2005 XRCO Award for Single Performance, Actress.[8][9] Along with comedian Jim Norton, Drake was chosen to co-host the 2007 AVN Awards,[10] and stated "this is probably the greatest thing that ever happened to me."[11] At the awards, she won Best Actress, Film for her role in Manhunters, for which Drake trained as a bounty hunter during pre-production.[12] Her directorial debut came in the 2008 film What Girls Like, having gained previous experience working as Brad Armstrong’s assistant director on titles such as 2007's Coming Home.[13][14]
She began writing screenplays during her tenure with Sin City, and has since penned films including Dating 101, Love Always and Just Between Us.[13] In January 2009, she won her third Best Actress AVN Award, this time for her performance in Fallen,[15] which she has described as "the best movie I have ever been in."[16] In the film, she plays an angel trapped on Earth after the death of a woman she was sent to protect.[1] Around the time of the awards, she suffered a stress fracture to her left foot.[17]
With porn actress Kayden Kross, Drake co-hosted the 2009 XRCO Awards,[18] at which her role in Fallen won the award for "Single Performance, Actress."[19] She and Sunny Leone co-hosted the F.A.M.E. Awards in July 2010.[20] Drake was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2010 and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2011.[21]Jessica Drake's Guide to Wicked Sex: Anal Edition (Wicked Pictures) was named "Specialty Release of the Year" at the 2012 XBIZ Awards.[22]
On October 21, 2016, Drake opened an online store selling adult videos and sexual paraphernalia.[23]
Appearances
In November 2007, Drake was among several porn actors to be guests on The Tyra Banks Show episode, "A Day in the Life of a Porn Star."[24] In 2008, Drake, Kaylani Lei, and Mikayla Mendez shot a scene for the mainstream comedy movie, Barry Munday, in which they played themselves as judges in an air-guitar contest.[25] Drake appears in the music video for the 2010 single "Telephone" by Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé.[26]
Drake, along with her then husband, actor and director, Brad Armstrong, were interviewed for a 2014 story in Cosmopolitan magazine about costume design in adult films.[29][30] In April 2014, Drake was part of discussion panel at the USC School of Cinematic Arts titled "The Piracy of Sex." The event featured Drake and copyright enforcement activist Nate Glass and was hosted by David Lerner.[31]
Charity
Drake is affiliated with an organization that focuses on building homes and providing clean water to people in poverty-stricken and remote areas. She has performed charity work in Cambodia, Kenya and Tanzania. In 2012, Drake formed a 501(c)(3) non-profit to assist in domestic efforts. This is separate from her role in the adult industry and the "jessica drake" brand, since she does not want anyone to believe that she volunteers her time as part of a public relations campaign. Her charity work is done anonymously.[32]
Sex educator
Noting a demand for modern sex education,[33] Drake and Wicked Pictures launched Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex, a series of erotic educational films.[34] The first DVD in the line, Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex: Fellatio, was honored with the 2012 award for Best Educational Release by AVN Media.[35] In 2014 Drake added a video to the series that addressed a segment that she said was under represented, plus size. In collaboration with plus-size performer Kelly Shibari, they released Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex: Plus Size.[36]"Guide to Wicked Sex" was also a weekly segment on Jessica's popular Playboy Radio show, IN BED with jessica drake.[37]
Drake teaches sex education seminars and workshops around the world, including addressing a class of licensed therapists at UCLA on May 3, 2012[38] and speaking on a panel at CatalystCon West sexuality conference.[39] In February 2014, Drake spoke on a panel with fellow actress Tasha Reign during the University of Chicago's Sex Week where they were featured on a panel entitled Jessica Drake: From Porn to Sex Ed.[40]
Again in February, Drake along with Reign spoke on a panel titled Porn, Prostitution, and Censorship: The Politics of Empowerment at Moore Hall at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), along with UCLA Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Christopher Mott.[41] The annual panel is sponsored by the Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art (SANAA) in honor of Eve Ensler’s V-Day Organization. Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues is an annual presentation on women’s issues.[41]
Sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump
Seventeen days before the 2016 United States presidential election, Drake became the 11th woman to accuse Donald Trump, the 2016 Republican nominee, of sexual misconduct. On October 22, 2016, Drake and feminist civil rights attorney Gloria Allred held a news conference in which Drake accused Trump of having sexually assaulted her and two acquaintances nearly ten years prior. Drake said that she met Trump at the Wicked Pictures'[42] (her employers') booth[43] in a gifting suite[44][45] during the American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament,[46][47][48][49][50] a charity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course[46][51]Lake Tahoe in 2006. Drake claims that she was invited to meet with Trump, at his hotel suite and since she was "uncomfortable going alone" she brought along two women friends. Describing the meeting with Trump, Drake recounted that "He grabbed each of us tightly, in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission." Drake stated that she and her friends left the suite after 30–45 minutes. Shortly thereafter, Drake received multiple phone calls from Trump or his associate, requesting that she join him in his suite for $10,000, and offering to fly her on his jet plane back to Los Angeles. She said she declined his offers.[52] At the press conference, Drake displayed a photo of herself and Trump together on the Lake Tahoe golf course.[52]
During the news conference, Drake said,[53] "I am not looking for monetary compensation. I do not need additional fame [...] I understand that I may be called a liar or an opportunist but I will risk that in order to stand in solidarity with women who share similar accounts."[52][54][55] In response to Drake's allegations, the Trump campaign stated that her story is "false and ridiculous", that "[t]he picture is one of thousands taken out of respect for people asking to have their picture taken with Mr. Trump" but Trump did not know Drake and "would have no interest in ever knowing her," and that the story was "just another attempt by the Clinton campaign to defame a candidate".[52][56]
In January 2018, Drake's publicist, Josh Ortiz, commented that Drake had signed a non-disclosure agreement regarding "any and every mention of Trump". On the following day, Ortiz however retracted his words by reading a statement supplied by Drake's lawyer, which stated that Ortiz had no knowledge of any non-disclosure agreement signed by Drake.[57]
Personal life
In 2002, Drake married fellow pornographic actor Evan Stone,[2]
after which she was living with Wicked director and performer Brad Armstrong, her partner for over a decade.[1][58] In 2021, she mentioned in a Twitter Q&A session that she and Armstrong had separated and were single again.[59] She has said that her brother and father were more supportive of her career choice than her mother.[60]
Awards
2001 AVN Award – Best Tease Performance – Shayla's Web[3]
^Roberts, Darren (2012). The Unsexpected Story: The Real Story about the Billion Dollar Adult Entertainment Business. Clearly Confused Inc. p. 81. ISBN9780985403201.
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