Career
She started toying with the idea of becoming more involved in the industry during her dancing days because she saw lucrative opportunities in creating her own websites, and producing and distributing her own adult materials. She saw California as a place with a favorable climate for her plans and moved there. Shortly after her arrival, she got in contact with World Modeling, an agency for nude and pornographic models and actors, where she was reputedly photographed by Ed Powers on the same day. Phoenix describes her motivation as, "I needed money. He was offering."
Phoenix entered the adult film business in spring 2003 and that same year won the XRCO award for best New Starlet and best Orgasmic Analist. In 2004, she won the XRCO Orgasmic Analist award and Female Performer of the Year.
Phoenix was nominated for the AVN Best New Starlet award in 2004 and in 2005 won the AVN Female Performer of the Year award. She also won in 2005 the XRCO awards for Orgasmic Analist and Female Performer Of The Year.
In 2005, Phoenix was hired by American Apparel clothing company to model tube socks and underwear in their catalogs.
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