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Melissa Hill is an American pornographic film actress and director. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2014 [1] and XRCO Hall of Fame in 2015. [2]
Hill began her career in the adult entertainment industry in 1992 by first modeling in photo spreads in magazines such as Club , Hustler , and High Society . She proceeded to start acting in adult films a year later and appeared in more than 200 movies, for a wide variety of producers, over the next ten years until her retirement from hardcore. [1] Over the course of her career, she was nominated for several AVN Awards. [1] Hill won the Best Actress—Film award in 1997 for Penetrator 2 (Pleasure Productions). [1] In 1998, she was named Best Supporting Actress—Film for Paul Thomas' Bad Wives (Vivid Entertainment). [1] In a 2015 interview, she claimed she retired in part because she did not want to age on camera and in part because she felt her career had reached a "plateau", and she found herself not getting another contract and not wanting to succumb to plastic surgery. [3]
Hill has also appeared in a variety of mainstream productions, most notably the porn-themed comedy Orgazmo from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. [1] [4] She has acted in non-sex roles, including Beyond Fucked: A Zombie Odyssey [5] and the porn parodies Underworld [6] and Measure X. [1] [7]
Hill is a San Francisco native, and she spent most of her childhood studying ballet, even becoming an instructor for five years after graduating from high school. [1]