Raven, born Rachel Vickers on July 31, 1964, is a retired American adult film actress known for her work in the 1980s to mid-1990s. She was a teen model in Los Angeles when she tagged along with her friend, Debbie Northrup, who was doing her first scene in an adult movie for moral support. The director saw the tall, stunning brunette and begged her to consider being in the movie. In a 1993 interview with AVN reflecting on her 10 years in the industry, Raven said she was offered three times what everyone else made. "I had zero intentions of ever doing anything like that. I had never done nude modeling, stripped, or anything. It was an all-girl flick called Sappho Sextet, and for my first scene ever, I had to have sex with my best friend Debbie in her first scene, too. We both were 19 and just the day before were hanging out at the mall being typical teenage girls, and now we were going down on each other in front of a crew of men. I think I had sex with two other girls that day, and I never did anything like that in my life. But I made almost $1,000, so I was hooked". She quit modeling and began performing under aliases like Nellie Marie Vickers, Raven St. James, and Vicky Vickers, per IMDb and everipedia.org. She appeared in approximately 218 films, including Taboo American Style (1985, parts 1–4), as well as Catalina Five-0 (1990), Jailhouse Girls (1984), and Wild Attraction (1992) with Rocco Siffredi, per IAFD and m.theclassicporn.com. Raven achieved her greatest enduring popularity with her spot-on wicked portrayal of the bitchy, selfish, and manipulative teenage seductress Nina Sutherland in the well-regarded "Taboo American Style" series.