Ashlyn Gere took the backward route into adult video. Ashlyn Gere started her cinematic career in the late '80s with a series of low-budget sci-fi/horror flicks, then burst onto the porn scene with blockbuster hits like Bush Pilots for VCA, Secrets for director Andrew Blake, and her own highly innovative production, Realities, for Zane Entertainment. After a career that spanned nearly a decade during which she garnered seven AVN Awards as well as being named Female Performer of the Year for 1992, Gere went back to Hollywood for TV roles in The X-Files, Millennium, and as a continuing character on the short-lived Space: Above and Beyond. But Gere found it difficult to get continuous work in mainstream, and returned to porn briefly in the late '90s.