Lexington Steele was born in 1969 in Morristown, New Jersey, and took an unusual path to become a porn actor. He attended Syracuse University and graduated with a dual bachelor's degree in 1993. He went on to become a securities trader. In 2000, he won the AVN Male Performer of the Year Award while still on the sidelines of porn, and stopped performing full-time in 2001. Since then, he has appeared in dozens of films, including Babes in Pornland: Interracial Babes and Lex Steele XXX 3, for which he won the AVN Award for Best Anal Sex Scene in 2003 and 2005.