Stephanie Clifford or as she is known professionally Stormy Daniels, is an American pornographic actress, former stripper and film director. Daniels graduated in 1997 from Scotlandville Magnet High School in Baton Rouge and she wanted to become a journalist. Daniels first began stripping as a guest, while she was visiting a friend at a strip club. She began doing so to earn money, but later became a featured entertainer with Continental Theatrical Agency. Daniels then began to work with Devon Michaels, who was doing all-female sex scenes in a pair of upcoming films for Wicked Pictures and Sin City. It was then that Daniels appeared first in the Sin City scene, American Girls Part 2. In 2002, Daniels also appeared in a feature film titled Heat, for Wicked Pictures. Daniels won the Best New Starlet Award for Adult Video News in 2004. In 2014, Daniels was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame and in the XRCO Hall of Fame. With her directorial work, she earned fourteen AVN Award Nominations, including the nomination for Best Safe Sex Scene for her performance with Brendon Miller in Francoise Clousot’s First Crush. Daniel’s also appeared in Maroon 5’s music video Wake Up Call, and in the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, when the main character is watching her in the video Space Nuts: Episode 69-Unholy Union, and in Knocked Up as a lap dancer. Daniels was also featured on Saturday Night Live in 2018.
