Later in 2007, Daniels appeared in Maroon 5's music video for their song " Wake Up Call" as a pole dancer. In early 2007, she appeared in Dirt on the FX Network, where she played a stripper who helps to set up a basketball player played by Rick Fox. Mainstream appearances United Statesĭaniels appeared in an episode of Real Sex where she is seen participating in 2001 Miss Nude Great Plains Contest. Daniels was named to host the 2019 XBIZ Awards. She was given the key to the city of West Hollywood, California, on "Stormy Daniels Day", May 23, 2018.
In 2018, Daniels toured strip clubs as part of a "Make America Horny Again" tour. Her directorial work that year earned fourteen AVN Award nominations including a nomination for Best Safe Sex Scene for her performance with Brendon Miller in François Clousot's First Crush. Daniels was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame on January 18, 2014, and was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame on April 16, 2014. ĭaniels has appeared with performers such as Randy Spears, Julian and Brendon Miller, to whom she was married and who edited about half of her movies. In 2004, she won the Best New Starlet Award from Adult Video News, which was a surprise to Daniels, who had made a $500 bet with another actress that Jesse Jane would win. In September that year, she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked. In July 2002, Daniels was cast as the lead in a feature film for Wicked Pictures, Heat, where she did her first male-female sex scene. Afterwards, Armstrong invited Daniels to stay with him. Daniels accompanied Michaels to her Wicked shoot, where she met Brad Armstrong and co-starred with Michaels in her Sin City scene, American Girls Part 2. While working as a featured entertainer, she met Devon Michaels, who was doing all-female sex scenes in a pair of upcoming films – one for Wicked Pictures and one for Sin City – and Michaels invited Daniels to accompany her. She chose the last name "Daniels" after seeing a Jack Daniel's advertisement that read "a Southern favorite". She chose her stage name Stormy Daniels to reflect her love of American rock band Mötley Crüe, whose bassist, Nikki Sixx, named his daughter Storm. She began stripping for money at the Gold Club in Baton Rouge and became a featured entertainer with Continental Theatrical Agency in September 2000.
Porn star Ron Jeremy and Daniels at Jeremy's birthday party, March 2007ĭaniels's first experience as a stripper occurred when she was 17 and visiting a friend at a strip club she was convinced to perform a "guest set".