Melissa Lauren

Melissa Lauren is a sensual pornstar and adult film director who was born in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France during 1984. Growing up, she was shy and had dreams of becoming a pilot in the air force or a doctor. However, Melissa Lauren wasn’t into studying in school, so she decided cooking school would suit her better. She studied for three years to be a cook and worked in a fine restaurant in Paris as a pastry chef prior to her porn career.

Growing up, Melissa Lauren was the kind of women who never expected a guy to take care of her. She knew early on that she wanted to be independent and make her own money, but she wasn’t sure how she was going to do it. At 19 years old, she answered an ad in a newspaper from French porn director John B. Root. Six days later in June of 2003, she did her first sex scene with a guy on camera.

At the time, Melissa Lauren had decided to enter the porn industry for purely financial reasons, but after a while, she realized that she loved it and since then, she has gone on to perform in more than 250 feature XXX movie titles for many major porn companies such as Anabolic, Red Light District, Platinum X, New Sensations and others.

She has performed in sex scenes with both men and women for the Internet and about 30 European sex films as well, in addition to countless solos for photo layouts in magazines and online. She loves being in the porn business because she loves having sex which is obvious, but she also enjoys the camaraderie of meeting new porn people living an exciting lifestyle... and best of all she doesn’t have to stand around in a hot kitchen making cakes for 18 hours per day anymore.

Melissa feels that porn is the best thing that has ever happened to her professionally and personally. In fact, even before entering the porn industry, Melissa Lauren enjoyed anal sex and rough erotic roleplay so it was a natural evolution for her to try new things like double penetration and double anal on camera while her fans watch in amazement. She is very sexually submissive and loves safe role play that includes being slapped, tied-up, having her hair pulled and being verbally dominated, but not everyone can do it to her. She feels that in order for her to be dominated, it’s something her partner has to earn and she is very picky about who she allows to user her this way.

Melissa Lauren feels that her most intense scene was with Nacho Vidal from the legendary film “Fashionistas Safado: Berlin” because the emotion of the sex was all real. The film was directed by John Stagliano and she feels that he captured the moment perfectly. Melissa Lauren has performed in BDSM, anal sex, cum swallowing, creampie, interracial and ass to mouth videos but none of them match the visceral excitement of her sex with Nacho Vidal.

In her personal life and porn life Melissa Lauren loves guys, but she loves women just as much. Her two favorite men to work with are Steve Holmes and Manuel Ferrara and she would love to do a scene with them both, allowing them to do whatever they wanted to her. When asked about her favorite female costars she replied simple "that list would be too long to mention them all."

In 2006, Melissa Lauren decided that she would no longer work with men in front of the camera, but would continue to do photo layouts, solo and lesbian scenes. She never explained the reasoning of her decision, but often decisions like that result from having a real life boyfriend with jealousy issues. However, with more than 450 porn scenes already under her belt, there is no shortage of hardcore sex video starring Melissa Lauren right here on Porn.com already.

Later Ms. Lauren decided she wanted to branch out and try her hand at directing. Since making that decision, she has directed 17 movies. She had developed her photography skills and felt that directing would allow her to express her creative side by bringing greater sexual intensity to scenes starring other leading ladies. The same year she made the decision to direct, Melissa Lauren was tapped to do one title a month for Dion Giarrusso’s gonzo production company Combat Zone. Melissa Lauren’s goal was to get new women into passionate high energy sex that would set a new standard for smut.

Her directorial debut was for the movie “Plucked Then Fucked” starring Manuel Ferrara, Arial Alexis, Nautica Evans, Alexis, Peyton and box cover pornstar Samantha Sin. Melissa was pleased with the way the movie turned out and loved working with Dion Giarrusso because he trusted her and gave her the freedom to do what she wanted. In 2007, Melissa Lauren was getting noticed as an up and coming porn director when she joined Diabolic Digital as the company’s first female director. She directed “Girls Will Be Girls” for Anabolic, Diabolic’s sister company. It was Anabolic’s first lesbian release. She also directed a volume for Diabolic’s “Unnatural Sex” series. Truly groundbreaking roles for one of the first female superstar directors of porn films.

In a blog entry, she also noted that she had signed on with French porn company Marc Dorcel in late 2007 and she performed in a surprise gangbang scene with four men, breaking her vow to only work with women on camera. That same year, she won an AVN Award for Best Group Sex Scene for “Fashionistas Safado: The Challenge” featuring 11 other pornstars. The film is still considered one of the best ever made and has won countless awards for the amazing sex and all star casting. In 2008, she was honored with two more AVN Awards for Best Three-Way Sex in “Fashionistas Safado: Berlin” with Katsuni and Rocco Siffredi as well as Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production for “Furious Fuckers Final Race.”

Fans have always said Melissa Lauren had terrific natural 34D breasts, which she enlarged in May of 2006. The decision to go bigger did irk some fans, but as a way of keeping her body in top physical shape it was a good choice in the long run according to Ms. Lauren.

Her family is supportive of her career path, even though they had expected her to become a lawyer or doctor early on. Melissa Lauren had no aspirations of becoming a huge pornstar, and yet it just sought of happened. Proving that her path was chosen as much by fate as by choice.

During her time off, Melissa Lauren enjoys all kinds of sports including kickboxing. She likes to spend time with her friends, go the beach and shop for lingerie. Melissa Lauren is also an avid gamer and loves playing games in the nude. One day, Melissa Lauren would like to get married, become a mom and open a restaurant of her own. Though it's hard to imagine her ever leaving the porn world completely. For example, she has a tattoo on her right forearm that is written in French which means “What Nourishes Me Destroys Me” - a sentiment that perfectly describes the mindset of one of the world's most famous BDSM starlets and porn directors.