Biography of Stormy Daniels (a.k.a.: Stormy Waters)

Stormy Daniels, also known as Stormy Waters or simply Stormy, is an American pornographic actress, screenwriter, and director. She chose her stage name to reflect her love of Mötley Crüe whose guitarist Mick Mars named his daughter Stormy. In 2009 a recruitment effort led her to consider challenging incumbent David Vitter in 2010 Republican Senate primary in her native Louisiana.

Daniels' parents divorced when she was four. She was subsequently raised by her mother. Daniels attended a magnet school in Louisiana and was the editor of her high school paper and president of the 4-H club.

She began stripping at age 17 at a club in Baton Rouge then expanded to become a feature performer in September of 2000. While working as a feature she met with Devon Michaels, who was doing girl-girl scenes in a pair of upcoming moviesâ€”one for Wicked Pictures and one for Sin City and invited Daniels to accompany her. Daniels accompanied Michaels to her Wicked shoot, where she met Brad Armstrong and co-starred with Michaels in her Sin City scene, which was American Girls Part 2. Afterward, Armstrong invited Daniels to stay out with him where she continued doing girl-girl only scenes.

In July 2002, she was cast as the lead in a feature film for Wicked called Heat, where she did her first boy-girl scene, and in September of the same year she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked. In 2004 she won the coveted Best New Starlet Award from Adult Video News, which came as a complete surprise to Daniels as she was so sure Jesse Jane would win she made a $500 bet with another porn starlet. From 2004 until today she continues directing for Wicked and is their leading performer.

She has appeared in several popular men's magazines including Playboy, Hustler, Penthouse, High Society, GQ, and FHM. She has also written for FHM. Daniels also appeared in an episode of Real Sex where she is seen participating in 2001 Miss Nude Great Plains Contest. In early 2007, she appeared in Dirt on the FX Network, where she played a stripper who helps to set up a basketball player played by Rick Fox. Later in 2007, Stormy Daniels appeared in Maroon 5's music video for their song Wake Up Call as a pole dancer. She appears in the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin as the main character watches her in the video Space Nuts: Episode 69 "Unholy Union". She also plays a Las Vegas lap dancer in Knocked Up, alongside fellow porn star Nautica Thorn. A deleted scene on the Virgin DVD includes her having dinner with producer Seth Rogen in a parody of My Dinner with Andre.

She is married to Mike Moz, a publicist in the adult entertainment industry.

A group of fans attempted to recruit Daniels to run against Republican Senator David Vitter in Louisiana in 2010. The recruitment process was centered around the website DraftStormy.com. On May 21, 2009, she formed an exploratory committee. Daniels is not affiliated with a political party but is currently making a listening tour around Louisiana to focus on the economy, as well as women in business and child protection.