Dana Vespoli

Career

Dana Vespoli holds a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature and moved from performing into directing early, joining Digital Sin in 2006. Her Girl/Girl Scene of the Year win at the 2015 Inked Awards, alongside Bonnie Rotten, and her 2017 XBIZ Best Actress win for the all-girl release Lefty came either side of her 2016 AVN Hall of Fame induction. She has since built a directing career across Sweetheart Video and Evil Angel, taking XBIZ Trans Director of the Year in 2018.

Signature: A Hall of Fame induction and a Girl/Girl-specific scene award earned as a performer, sitting inside a directing career built almost entirely around women-focused and trans-inclusive productions.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Dana Vespoli's placement inside Female Pornstars Who Built the Industry, Ranked by Impact — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 3 rankings below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.

Full award record4 entries

• 2016AVN — Hall of Fame
• 2015Inked Awards — Girl/Girl Scene of the Year
• 2017XBIZ — Best Actress — All-Girl Release
• 2018XBIZ — Trans Director of the Year

Best known for

Studios

Beyond performing

• Director, Digital Sin (from 2006)
• Director, Sweetheart Video and Evil Angel

Official links

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Ranked alongside

• Joanna Angel
• Anikka Albrite
• Tera Patrick
• Manuel Ferrara
• John Holmes
• Mick Blue

Sources and verification2 sources

Last audited 25 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Dana Vespoli · Wikipedia (French) — Dana Vespoli

Not yet confirmed:

• Exact birth date not published on English Wikipedia. French and Spanish Wikipedia, and Wikidata, independently give 22 September 1972 — but all three trace to the Internet Adult Film Database, an aggregator this programme treats as unreliable, so we do not use it
• Birthplace is a genuine, unresolved conflict: English Wikipedia states "Portland, Oregon," but its own footnote at that sentence supports only her Mills College attendance, not the birthplace claim, so it is effectively uncited. French and Spanish Wikipedia state "San Francisco, California" instead, sourced in turn to IAFD. Wikidata also carries "San Francisco" but its only reference is "imported from Wikimedia project" (English Wikipedia) — circular, and it contradicts the English Wikipedia article it claims to import from. No version of the birthplace is reliably sourced, so we have removed the claim rather than pick one