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Stacey Hirsch (née Bernstein[1]), known professionally as Raylene, is an American pornographic actress.
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Raylene was born and raised in Glendora, California.[1] She is of Italian and Mexican descent on her mother's side.[2] Her father is Jewish, of Polish and Austrian descent.[1][2]
As a child, Raylene attended Christian schools.[2] She was an honors student in high school and graduated at age 16, two years early.[2] She said she had originally intended to pursue Christian studies at Azusa Pacific University and become a Christian high school teacher.[2]
Raylene began acting when she was five years old.[4] With help from her uncle, a television producer, she appeared on Hunter and 21 Jump Street.[2] She had a non-speaking appearance on an episode of the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show.[citation needed]
Raylene made her pornographic film debut in 1998.[5] She was a contract performer for Vivid Entertainment between May 1998 and November 2001, during which time she appeared in nearly 100 films.[6]
Raylene retired from the adult film industry in 2001. After briefly touring as a striptease dancer, she found work as a real estate agent.[1] While working in real estate, she brokered a sale to the AIM Health Care Foundation.[3] She returned to performing in pornographic films with Raylene's Dirty Work in 2009.[5]
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Raylene was briefly married to Brad Hirsch, brother of Vivid Entertainment co-chairman Steve Hirsch.[1]
- 1999 XRCO Award – Starlet of the Year[7]
- 2001 AVN Award – Best Actress (Film) – Artemesia (tied with Taylor Hayes – Jekyll and Hyde)[8][self-published source?]
- 2008 AVN Hall of Fame[9]
- 2017 XRCO Hall of Fame
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