Jules Jordan


Jules Jordan is an American adult film actor, director, and producer known for his work in gonzo pornography.
Jordan entered the adult film industry as a clerk for a video store. While working in sales, he recruited models and began shooting amateur scenes. In 2006, he launched his production and distribution company Jules Jordan Video. Jordan has been inducted into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame.

Early life

Jordan was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An only child, he was raised by his mother in Hershey; he never met his father. As a teen, Jordan worked at an amusement park, a skateboard shop, an Italian restaurant, a pizza joint, and a Subway restaurant. He attended Hershey High School, where he maintained a varsity position on the wrestling team all four years.
One of his first exposures to pornography was looking through his grandfather's explicit movie collection on 8 mm film.
After trying out a semester of college, Jordan dropped out to work full-time. He began working as a clerk for an adult video store he frequented as a customer.

Career

One of Jordan's first big breaks into the adult film industry was meeting Frank Kay, owner of International Video Distributors. Kay initially hired Jordan for sales, and then he gave him a chance to shoot movies under his established Pleasure and Rosebud labels.
In 1998, Jordan directed the first full-length movie of his career for Pleasure Productions, releasing Live Bait. One of the women he shot, Chastity, helped propel the tape to national notoriety because she was a pro wrestling valet for World Championship Wrestling. Jordan sold several individual scenes prior to releasing Live Bait, selling early scenes to Odyssey Group and Elegant Angel. He produced more than 50 videos for Pleasure and Rosebud during a two-year span.
In 1999, Jordan moved to Los Angeles after finding it difficult to produce films on the East Coast. He spent his first two months living in an Econo Lodge. After jobs with Vivid Entertainment and Elegant Angel failed to materialize, he started working for IVD again out of his apartment with just a fax machine.
Jordan helped re-invigorate IVD's Rosebud line in 1999–2000, producing, directing and selling titles such as Bottom Feeders, Deep Cheeks, Anal Sluts & Sweethearts and Heavy Metal. Jordan won the first AVN Award of his career in 2002 for Heavy Metal, which was honored as the Best Anal-Themed Release.
Jordan signed a DVD distribution deal with John Stagliano's studio Evil Angel in 2001, becoming their top-selling director in his first year on their roster. While working with Evil Angel, he launched of signature titles such as Ass Worship, Flesh Hunter and Feeding Frenzy, all three of which would go on to become AVN award-winning series. When Jordan left Evil Angel in 2006 he was their top-selling director. Jordan said, "I wanted to control my own destiny, with where my product was headed."
In 2013, Jordan closed a distribution deal with Kink.com to bring their content to DVD for the first time.
In 2015, Jordan signed Jesse Jane to an exclusive performance contract. Under the two-year deal, Jesse will perform in eight movies per year for Jules Jordan Video.

Personal life

Jordan was in a relationship with pornographic actress Jenna Haze. He voiced his support for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Awards

YearResultAwardFilm
2007Best New Video Production Company for Jules Jordan Video
2007Best Oral-Themed ReleaseFeeding Frenzy 8
2007Best Specialty Release - Big BustBreast Worship
2008Director of the Year
2008Best Interracial ReleaseBlack Owned 2
2008Best Oral-Themed SeriesFeeding Frenzy
2009Best Director, Ethnic VideoLex the Impaler 3
2009Best Anal-Themed ReleaseJules Jordan's Weapons of Ass Destruction 6
2009Best Big Bust ReleaseBig Tits at School
2009Best Ethnic-Themed Release - BlackBlack Ass Addiction 2
2009Best Ethnic-Themed Release - BlackBlack Ass Addiction
2009Best Internal ReleaseAll Internal 7
2009Best POV SeriesDouble Vision
2009Best Young Girl ReleaseJailbait 5
2010Best Director, Ethnic VideoLex the Impaler 4
2011Best Director, Ethnic VideoLex the Impaler 5
2011AVN Hall of Fame inductee
2017Best Director - Non-FeatureFace of an Angel Mind of a Devil

YearResultAwardFilm
2006Favorite Directorrowspan="2"
2010Favorite Director-

YearResultAwardFilm
2007Up-and-Coming Studio of the Yearrowspan="3"
2008Gonzo Director of the Year-
2010Studio of the Year-
2011Ethnic Release of the YearBlack Ass Master 4
2012Gonzo/All-Sex Studio of the Year
2013Gonzo Series of the YearUltimate Fuck Toy
2014Gonzo Series of the YearUltimate Fuck Toy
2014All-Black Release of the YearBlack Heat
2015Latin-Themed Release of the YearLatinas on Fire 2''
2018Director of the Year - Body of Work