Rocco Steele

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Rocco Steele
Born1964 (age 59–60)[1]
Ohio, U.S.
Occupations
  • Pornographic actor
  • pornographic film director
Years active2014–present

Rocco Steele (born 1964) is an American gay pornographic actor, pornographic film director, and former escort. Steele became an escort in 2012 while in his 40s. He started his pornographic career two years later, and has since been frequently regarded in the media as one of gay pornography's most recognizable and lauded stars, particularly for his large penis, "daddy" image, and entrepreneurship.

Steele's other ventures include a pornographic film production studio, an underwear brand, a line of sex toys, a personal lubricant, and Just Oral, a podcast about sex positivity. He has won two GayVN Awards, one XBIZ Award, six Grabby Awards, one Cybersocket Web Award, and one Prowler Award for his work as a pornographic actor and two International Escort Awards, including the 2015 title of Mr. International Hookie, for his escorting.

Life and career[edit]

Steele was born in 1964[1] in Ohio;[2] his father is Italian and was a restaurant and bar owner.[3][4] He was raised Catholic and has three sisters. He was the president of his fraternity while in college, where he first started coming out as gay to his close friends before being "out in terms of lifestyle" by age 23 and coming out to his family by age 25.[5] In the early 1990s, Steele was an alcoholic and had a cocaine addiction. During this time, he had received a Juris Doctor degree and moved to New York City to take the bar examination in the hopes of becoming a criminal defense lawyer. However, both his alcohol and drug consumption led to complications and his almost being fired from his job, and he attended his first twelve-step meeting in 1999. As of 2020, he has stated that he has been sober since then. Prior to starting his pornographic career, Steele worked at a corporate job in retail in New York City, which he has said made him depressed.[6]

In 2012, while in his 40s,[3] Steele began working as an escort, using Rentboy to post ads for himself, and was given offers by various gay pornographic studios, which he declined. For his escorting work, he won both the International Escort Award for Best Cock and the title of Mr. International Hookie in 2015.[7] Heeding suggestions from friends, he became a gay pornographic film actor in 2014, when he filmed his first solo scene with gay porn producer Ray Dragon of pornographic production company Dragon Media at his studio in Beacon, New York.[6][8] Pirated videos of him quickly became popular on free pornographic websites in early 2015.[2] In the spring of 2015, he launched Rocco Steele Studios, a pornographic film production studio.[1] At the 2015 Grabby Awards, he was nominated for the awards for Best Top, Hottest Cock, Best Newcomer, Group Scene, Manly Man, and Fan Favorite.[7] Steele made his pornographic directorial debut in 2015 with the Dragon Media film Urban Legend, which was nominated for two Grabby Awards.[9] By 2016, he was one of the most searched-for gay pornographic actors on Pornhub.[10] In August 2016, he launched an underwear company, 10Seven, which was named after his penis measurements. Originally only selling boxer briefs, the company started selling other kinds of underwear, including briefs and jockstraps, by 2018.[11] In 2016, he won the Grabby Awards for Best Duo, for his film Daddy Issues with Casey Everett, and for Hottest Top, and the XBIZ Award for Gay Performer of the Year.[12][9]

Steele began uploading pornographic content to subscription service OnlyFans in 2017.[13] He won the Grabby Award for Best Actor for his role in Secrets & Lies at the 2017 Grabby Awards.[14] In July 2017, he launched My 10 Inches, a membership-based website for his bareback videos.[15] After directors Ray Dragon and Joe Gage left Dragon Media, the company signed a deal with Steele for him to direct six films a year in the spring of 2018.[9] In 2018, Steele was the third most searched-for gay pornographic actor on Pornhub.[16] He was nominated for the Pornhub Award for Top Daddy Performer at the 2nd Pornhub Awards in 2019.[17] He won the Squirt.org Fan Favorite Award at the 2019 Grabby Awards in May 2019.[18] In September 2019, Steele fronted the Rocco sex toy line for sex toy company Perfect Fit, which included the Rocco Jack Daddy Stroker, a silicone masturbation sleeve.[19] As the face of Ride BodyWorx, a personal lubricant company, his Ride Rocco lubricant was released in 2020.[20][21] In January 2020, Steele sold nude photos of himself through direct messages on his Twitter account to raise money to combat wildfires in Australia.[22] Steele won the GayVN Award for Favorite Daddy in 2020 and 2021.[23][24] He hosts Just Oral, a sex-positive podcast and YouTube series for Ride BodyWorx, the first season of which premiered in March 2021.[20] Its second season premiered in August 2021.[25]

Public image[edit]

Steele has been noted for his ten-inch-long penis.[26][2] He appears exclusively as a top in his pornographic scenes.[6] He was diagnosed with undetectable HIV in 2012 and has frequently spoken about the stigma surrounding it and PReP.[27][4]

For Fleshbot, Vincent Thrice wrote that he had "taken the gay porn world by storm" in 2014 and that he had "what can only accurately be described as a monster cock".[5] Str8UpGayPorn similarly commented that Steele "rose to gay porn superstar status in 2015".[28] In 2015, Marke Bieschke of Vice wrote that "Steele's cock-rocket to the top has been meteoric, the result of a blast of self-confidence, social media engagement, free porn clips, and a razor-sharp marketing plan" and described him as the "archetypal daddy".[2] In described Steele as a "porn industry legend" and "one of the most – if not the most – recognized gay porn star on the planet".[6] In 2018, Derek de Koff of Queerty called him "one of the top entertainers in gay adult films for the last seven years" due to his "burly dad bod" and "not-for-the-faint-of-heart appendage".[29] Instinct described him as "the daddy of all daddies".[3] For Metrosource, Kevin Perry called Steele "an intrepid entrepreneur who has penetrated pop culture in its many willing orifices".[30] Zachary Zane of Men's Health called Steele a "gay porn megastar", while Mikelle Street of Out described him as "a heavily awarded porn performer".[19][31]

Awards and nominations[edit]

List of awards and nominations, with award, year, category, nominated work, result, and reference shown
Award Year Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
Cybersocket Web Awards 2015 Best Newcomer Himself Nominated [32]
2016 Best Porn Star Nominated [33]
Best Sex Scene Daddy Issues Nominated
Guard Patrol Gang Bang Nominated
2017 Best Porn Star Himself Nominated [34]
Best Sex Scene Deep Examination Nominated
Sexperiment Ep. 4: Take My Pretty Hole Daddy Nominated
2020 Best Director Himself Nominated [35]
JustForFans Model of the Year Nominated
2022 Daddy of the Year Won [36]
GayVN Awards 2018 Best Group Sex Scene Kiss and Tel Aviv Nominated [37]
Favorite Cock Himself Nominated
2019 Best Director – Feature Rocco Steele's Urban Legend 2 Nominated [38]
Best Director – Non-Feature Rocco Steele's Spring Broke Nominated
2020 Best Director – Feature Rocco Steele's Cell Block D Nominated [39]
Best Group Sex Scene Nominated
Best Director – Non-Feature Father and Son Secrets Nominated
Favorite Daddy Himself Won [40]
2021 Best Director – Non-Feature Dad's Bareback Collision Shop Nominated [41]
Favorite Daddy Himself Won [42]
2022 Best Director – Non-Feature Rocco Steele's Door Open Ass Up Motel Nominated [43]
Grabby Awards 2015 Best Newcomer Himself Nominated [44][45]
Hottest Top Nominated
Hottest Cock Won
Manly Man Nominated
Squirt.org Favorite Porn Star Won
Best Group Guard Patrol Won
2016 Best Actor Daddy Issues Nominated [46][47]
Best Duo Won
Urban Legend Nominated
Best Group Nominated
Hottest Top Himself Nominated
Hottest Cock Nominated
Manly Man Nominated
Performer of the Year Nominated
Web Performer of the Year Nominated
2017 Best Actor Secrets & Lies Won [48][49]
Hottest Top Himself Nominated
Hottest Cock Nominated
Manly Man Nominated
Performer of the Year Nominated
Hottest Rimming Sexperiment Nominated
Squirt.org Fan Favorite Porn Star Himself Nominated
2018 Hottest Top Himself Nominated [50][51]
Hottest Cock Nominated
Best Threeway Daddy We've Been Bad Nominated
Squirt.org Fan Favorite Porn Star Himself Won
2019 Hottest Top Nominated [52]
Hottest Cock Nominated
Best Director – Movie/Web Series Rocco Steele's Urban Legend 2 Nominated
Best Director – All Sex Rocco Steele's Spring Broke Nominated
2020 Best Supporting Actor Sexual Favors Nominated
2021 Hottest Cock Himself Nominated [53]
Hottest Top Nominated
Hottest Daddy Nominated
Best Director – All Sex — Nominated
2022 Best Director – All Sex Rocco Steele's Door Open Ass Up Motel Nominated [54]
Pornhub Awards 2020 Most Popular Gay Male Performer Himself Nominated [55]
Top Daddy Performer Nominated
Prowler Awards 2016 Best International Porn Star Nominated [56]
2017 Won [57]
2018 Nominated [58]
2019 Nominated [59]
2020 Nominated [60]
XBIZ Awards 2016 Gay Performer of the Year Won [61]

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