Michael Lucas (sometimes Michel Lucas) has become a key figure in the industry since his US debut in about 1997 with the likes of Falcon. He's now the boss of his own production company - Lucas Entertainment - and still stars in his movies. He's got an impressively long cock too and stands about 6ft 2ins tall. Born in 1972 in Moscow, Russia, he graduated there with a degree and ran a travel agency. He left Russia in 1995 and then moved to Germany and France, where he took up modelling and worked for legendary director Cadinot. He later settled in New York City. An often controversial figure, he's outspoken on drug use and a campaigner for safer sex.

• Sex Positive (2009)

  
• Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda (2014)

  
• Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land (2013)

  
• Party Tricks (2014)

  
• The Newsreader (2021)