Monique Alexander

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Monique Alexander
Monique Alexander at the AVN Expo, Las Vegas, Nevada - 20110107.jpg
Alexander in 2011
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) [1]
Website http://www.moniquealexander.com

Monique Alexander is an American pornographic actress, nude model, and 2017 AVN Hall of Fame inductee. [2] Alexander has also been an advocate for free speech and sex education, and has appeared on Fox News and in a debate at Yale University addressing these topics. In addition to her pornographic work, she has had several cameo appearances in mainstream films and television shows.

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Career

Sex industry

Alexander began working in the adult industry as a stripper in Sacramento when she was 18 years old [1] to supplement her daytime earnings as a receptionist. [3] She started performing in adult films in 2001 beginning with a girl-girl scene. [1] In addition to a catalog of solely girl-girl hardcore work, she appeared in a handful of softcore erotic films produced by HBO and Cinemax such as Hotel Erotica , The Sex Spa, Sex House , [1] and Voyeur: Inside Out.[ citation needed ]

Alexander was a contract girl for Vivid Entertainment from 2004 [1] to 2009. [4] After years of appearing only in girl-girl scenes, she began appearing in boy-girl scenes in 2005, including an interactive DVD and a feature role with Rocco Siffredi in Vivid's Lexie and Monique Love Rocco. [1] She was a Trophy Girl at the 2002 AVN Awards ceremony in Las Vegas. [1]

Mainstream acting

Alexander appeared in a mainstream film entitled Spider's Web with Stephen Baldwin and Kari Wuhrer in 2002. [5]

Alexander made a cameo appearance in the Season 3 finale of the HBO series Entourage . [5] [6] In 2007, she became a sports reporter on National Lampoon Comedy Radio's The Phil Show. [7]

She also appeared in the 2009 action film Crank: High Voltage . [5]

Advocacy

Alexander was invited to the Fox News show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld to discuss a nonpartisan study that found that abstinence-only programs for teens do not work, whereas safe sex education programming was highly successful. Alexander discussed what being a Vivid Girl meant to her as well as her preference for hands-on sex education, with the segment airing on November 10, 2007. [8] On February 15, 2008, she and Ron Jeremy represented the industry in a debate at Yale University against pornography opponents Craig Gross (founder of the XXX Church) and Donnie Pauling, a former porn producer, and the debate was aired on ABC's Nightline . [9] [10]

In 2017, Alexander starred in a public service campaign encouraging parents to discuss sexual health education with their children, noting that children are likely to see pornography at some point in their childhood, and need to be informed that what is portrayed in pornography is an unrealistic representation of sexual behavior. [11] [12]

Awards

YearAwardCategoryFilmResult
2008 AVN Award Best All-Girl Sex Scene [13] Sex & ViolinsWon
2008 AVN Award Best Group Sex Scene [13] Debbie Does Dallas... AgainWon
2009AVN AwardBest Couples Sex Scene [14] Cry WolfWon
2011AVN AwardBest All-Girl Couples Sex Scene [15] Meow!Won
2017AVN Award AVN Hall of Fame [2] Won

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