The career of Nicole Graves, the stunning naturally buxom Texan who burst on the scene in 2006 after a quiet debut towards the end of 2005, is one that is difficult to put a finger on. Not long in the industry, as of the end of 2007 her ongoing career is open to some doubt as very little new content appears to be emerging that stars her, her official site has stalled and basically not many people appear to know what she-s been up to.

It-s all quite a strange development. Nicole, who started off performing as Coco before changing her name (I have seen it suggested that it would end confusion with Ice-T-s wife), started off in the world of nude modelling in December 2005 but it wasn-t too long before she opted into hardcore performing. Indeed, it was only a matter of two months before she shot her first hardcore scene, professing that she enjoyed it immensely and particularly enjoyed facial cumshots.

It didn-t take a huge amount of time for her hardcore career to take off in 2006. The year was littered with splendid hardcore performances and her naturally curvy figure immediately found her many fans, but probably more for her glamour shoots, which she continued to take on, than her hardcore stuff. An appearance in the bizarre but popular Big Sausage Pizza series was the most outlandish appearance that she took on in that time.

Some were slightly surprised, considering her glamour following, that she immediately chose a hardcore route. Possessing of such beauty, many suggested that she would be missing her calling by not following a more glamour-tinged career. But she did soon start to pursue more of a softcore side to her career upon working on shoots with Earl Miller and Penthouse, gaining even more popularity on the modelling circuit but still seemingly being more comfortable when it came to hardcore content.

Her official website was also launched in 2007. Featuring a mixture of lesbian, hardcore and solo modelling and masturbation content, it quickly appealed to all of her fans and regularly added new content. In an interview several months after she expressed a desire to pump all of her energy into the website and make it the biggest solo site anywhere on the net - a very significant wish considering the fact that many bigger stars had failed to establish a successful online arm.

Nonetheless, Nicole Graves ploughed on with typically uncontroversial and cheerful optimism. At the end of 2006 she was awarded one of the most notable online positions in the adult industry when Twistys named her as their Treat Of The Month for December. It was quite an enormous step for Nicole - this massive site has a huge following and grabbing such a title was likely to lead to many more fans for her and to her receiving greater notice around the industry.

She also turned out to be quite open as regards the stars she had particular admiration for within the industry. She openly admitted her admiration for Kyla Cole and Jesse Jane, and stated that she would like to shoot with them one day. She also confessed to being openly bisexual and admitted that her main reason for entering porn was not for monetary reasons (many of her early shoots resulted in very low pay) but because she liked to have sex with both men and women.

2007 seemed to be setting her up for a bumper end to the decade and she finished the year with a hardcore shoot for Hustler. Having now participated in shoots for many of the big companies out there it seemed as though she was set up for a very successful career. But things have notably slowed down in the last calendar year or so on her official site, and very little starring her has been seen so far in 2008.

Let's hope we find out where she is pretty soon.

PROFILE:-

Name - Nicole Graves
Porn aliases - Coco
Place of birth - Houston, Texas
Nationality / Ethnicity - Caucasian-American
Date of birth - August 24th, 1982
Official website - www.nicolegraves.com/
Debut year - 2005
Niches / genres - Facial cumshots
Mainstream exposure - None
Must-see sites - Big Sausage Pizza, Penthouse, Mac & Bumble, Twistys
Notable awards - Twistys Treat Of The Month (December 2006)