User:TaftBillBrown/Paul Wilcox

Paul Wilcox, adult entertainment actor, was born April 26, 1973 in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California and was named Paul Robert Bain. He legally changed his surname to Wilcox, his late mother's maiden name, on January 30, 2007. The firstborn son of a military father and a rock-n-roll musician mother, his family frequently moved to several different communities throughout California during his childhood. After receiving a certificate of high school proficiency from the state of California during his high school junior year, Wilcox left high school and spent the next several years of his life living a self-described "hippie lifestyle" while creating amateur homemade pornographic videos of himself with several of his former girlfriends in the redwood forests of coastal northern California. After his mother died of alcoholism in 2001, Wilcox married his former high school sweetheart in 2003; they divorced in 2006. It was around this time that the adult entertainment actor James Deen, to whom Wilcox bears a strong physical resemblance, became famous in the adult film industry. After several incidents involving porn fans who mistook Wilcox for Deen in public, Wilcox decided to pursue a career in adult entertainment himself so he could "hear people call me by my own name every once in a while" as per a statement he gave in an interview with Immoral Productions. Moreover, Wilcox broke from the tradition of creating a porn stage name, opting to use his real name instead. Despite a lack of agency representation, Wilcox got his big break in May of 2009 during the filming of the adult movie "Pornstar Tweet (Vol. 1)," in which movie he appears with adult actress Natasha Nice. To date, Wilcox has appeared in at least three scenes. He is known among fans and colleagues as "the James Deen lookalike with the kickass mountain bike" and for his catch phrase greeting, "Shalom-Aloha." Wilcox lives in Granada Hills, California.