Racquel Darrian (born Kelly Rae Jackson on July 21, 1968, in Hutchinson, Kansas) was raised in California from age seven, when her family had moved from Kansas to California. She is of mixed Irish, Italian, and Native American descent. She was a popular girl in school and was homecoming queen her senior year. Darrian joked that there was a girl in school whom they would talk behind her back and say was destined to drop out and do porn. "She became a doctor, and I became the whore". Considered by many critics and fans alike to be one of the most beautiful women to ever star in adult films, Raquel ironically began in bottom-of-the-barrel porno magazines like Hustler and Beaver Hunt before transitioning into low-budget grimy lesbian films such as the hardcore Leather & Lace series and Ed Powers Dirty Debutantes amateur pornos shot in his bedroom with cheap cameras and bad lighting. In her lesbian films, Raquel typically played the pretty girl being seduced by an older, rougher lesbian or butch woman. When she crossed over to adult film, she initially performed only in "all-girl" scenes and was always put on the box cover. As offers increased for her to participate in heterosexual scenes, she began working onscreen with Derrick Lane, who she dated for several years and then married in 1994. In 1992, she signed an exclusive contract with Vivid Video to be one of their Vivid Girls. She eventually tired of constantly working with Lane, and she insisted on working with other men. Darrian divorced from Derrick Lane in 2000. Darrian has appeared in Penthouse and Playboy magazines. She was the October 1990 Penthouse Pet of the Month, as Kelly Jackson, and in Playboys 1996 pictorial "Strippers".