Ashlyn Gere

Ashlyn Gere was born Kimberly Ashlyn McKamy on September 14, 1967 in Cherry Point, North Carolina. She performs in both straight and lesbian films. She was a cheerleader in high school and graduated from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas with a double major in Theater Arts and Communications. In the 1980s she was an actress in several B-movies. She was a body double in the films Basic Instinct and Indecent Proposal. Ashlyn Gere began working in adult films in 1990, becoming renowned for her athletic performances. She acted under the name Kimberly Patton in the television series Space: Above and Beyond from 1995 to 1996; she also appeared under that name in episodes of Silk Stalkings and Millennium. She continued her pornographic career while playing on these shows, becoming one of the few actresses to successfully balance both careers (as opposed to the usual tactic of focusing exclusively on one aspect or the other). She has also appeared under the Patton name in the films The One and Willard, and was credited as Kimberly Ashlyn Gere for an appearance on The X-Files. She has made over one hundred X-rated films. She is married and has a child.