Vanessa Blue (born May 27, 1974) is an American

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, producer, online model, and

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. She was inducted into the

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. After a year, she took a three-year break, moving to Nebraska to be with her family, but came back to the industry in 2000. She worked for Mercenary Pictures for several years and directed several of their series, one of which, ''Black Reign'', won the 2005 AVN Award for Best Ethnic-Themed Series. She was engaged to Mercenary's owner,

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. In 2008, Steele and Blue filed federal lawsuits against each other over the ownership of numerous videos that first appeared under the Mercenary Pictures label. The suits were settled in March 2009 after meeting with an alternative dispute resolution jurist. She subsequently distributed her movies through Justin Slayer International, signing with them in April 2010. Blue starred on

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and hosted ''Private Calls'' and ''Night Calls'' on

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until 2008. She briefly returned to doing scenes in 2011, and did a series of hardcore scenes for Brazzers.

Director

Blue has also directed

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genre of movies under the pseudonym Domina X, and has also been a contract director for DVSX and Adam & Eve.

Awards

In 2008, Blue won an Urban X Award for Videography and was admitted to the Urban X Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2013 she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

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