Steele grew up in Escondido, California, and before she started her film career, she worked at Starbucks and at a golf course snack bar.
However, in 2005, being a huge fan of pornographic films herself, Riley Steele traveled to Hollywood just to meet her personal heroine, Jesse Jane.
Jane was actually the one to suggest that Riley should get into the adult film business and gave her the necessary contacts. Steele waited a couple of years but eventually contacted Digital Playground and the rest was history.
Her first scene was back in the 2008 film “Naked Aces 5” and later she starred in a film alongside former UFC fighter War Machine. In January 2011, she co-hosted the AVN Awards.
In July 2012, Steele announced her very brief retirement from porn, but she later explained that it had actually been a joke and said that she loved the adult industry too much to actually quit.
When it comes to her mainstream roles, Riley appeared in “Piranha 3D” (2010), “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge” (2008), “The Girl’s Guide to Depravity” (2012), and many more.