With a small crowd
gathered around her, Alexis DeVell lost her virginity against a merry-go-round
at age 15. During the same year, the Denver native started her own
strip-o-gram service.
While stripping at
the New York club Goldfingers, Alexis saw Racquel Darrian perform.
"Wow. She was up on a big screen and everyone looked at her.
"After her performance,
I had people coming up to me thinking that I was her, because at that
stage we did look alike. People asked me for my autograph thinking
I was Racquel. I thought, 'Wow, I could do this'."
The next week Alexis
ran into Danielle Rogers, Randy Spears and Sandra Scream and they
explained the business to her. She further investigated on her own
before telling her parents her decision to have sex again in public.
"I have a wonderful
family and they love me for who I am rather than for what I do. They
are like most parents, however, in that they would've preferred that
I become a doctor or lawyer."
Alexis got hold of
Jim Holliday and he connected her with director Scotty Fox.
The short busty redhead,
born 10/8/71, debuted in June, 1991. During her three year career,
Alexis picked her roles carefully, playing a bimbo in Cockateer 2,
a snooty soap-opera queen in Southern Exposure and a girl who dreams
about dicks in Collectible.
DeVell says she won't
do a movie unless she gets the script ahead of time.
She's five feet tall,
and her sexual turn-offs include sloppy kisses and bondage. Alexis
patterns herself after her heroine Hyapatia Lee.
Paul Norman's Within
and Without You ranks high on DeVell's list of her favorite movies.
She cowrote it as well as Poor Little Rich Girl.
Alexis did 54 videos,
appearing on about 40 of the boxcovers.
"I liked to play strong
female characters, even if they were bimbos," says Alexis. "It gave
me a chance to act."
Since early 1994,
the exhibitionist has placed her video career on hold. She stripped
at clubs around North America before settling down to work with manager
Lucky Smith.