Fresh Faces: Melissa Moore

This article originally ran in the March 2016 issue of AVN magazine. Click here to see the digital edition. Hometown: Dallas | Age: 19 | Height: 5-foot-4 | Measurements: 36C-24-35 | Ethnicity: Mexican | Eyes: Green Vivacious bombshell Melissa Moore discovered almost the instant she stepped foot into porn that there would be no avoiding one particular matter: her double-take-inducing resemblance to adult superstar and newly crowned AVN Female Performer of the Year Riley Reid. “If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard, ‘Oh you look like Riley,’ I’d make a pretty good income,” Moore jokes. “But she’s freakin’ hot, so I take that as a big compliment.” The likeness actually first became apparent, Moore imparts, long before she considered following in Reid’s footsteps. “I was the little horny girl with raging hormones in high school, watching all these dirty videos, and I was like, ‘Hey, I kind of look like her,’” she divulges. “But then I was like, ‘She’s fuckin’ hot … does that mean I’m hot?’ I showed a few of my close friends, and everybody was like, ‘Whoa! That’s weird!’ So they would call me ‘Little Riley.’” Naturally, then, as soon as Moore did enter Riley’s world, it was more or less a foregone conclusion that the two would be placed together in a scene. As it turned out, it was Moore’s very first girl/girl, and the company that managed to score the pairing—which Moore describes as “a dream come true”—was Girlfriends Films, for volume 123 of reigning AVN Best All-Girl Series Women Seeking Women. Despite her Riley doppelgänger-hood, however, Moore says nobody pegged her as a model type growing up. “I was in like theater tech,” she explains. “I was in photography for three years, so being behind the camera was a lot more comfortable for me, it was kind of like my hub. And then being in front of the camera, I was like, ‘This is totally different. This is new.’” Different, perhaps, but not frightening: “I felt confident in myself, and I had pretty good self-esteem, I think, but just learning about different angles and about the technical stuff with modeling, I was like, ‘This is kind of cool. This is a different perspective,’ and I was really interested in that.” Moore says she hopes to eventually parlay her experience on both sides of the camera into some kind of behind the scenes opportunity. “I mean, I feel like a sponge still, I’m just trying to absorb as much information as possible,” she enthuses, “and being on set with these people who deal with the technical side of things [is] super interesting to me. I would love to do like a collaboration with something that’s behind the camera and exploring that side of myself a little bit more and seeing what I can get creative with.” One thing’s for certain: No matter what Moore decides she wants to do in the industry, she’s got the outlook and conviction to make it happen. “If you hustle and you have your mind set on something, a goal, if you focus on something that you want to get done, and you surround yourself with people who can help you build that and support you with it, then you can succeed,” she says. “I’m fucking ready to bring some dope stuff to the table. I’m excited.” Along with the aforementioned WSW scene, see just what Melissa Moore brings to the table in Cal Vista/Metro’s Oral Obsessions: Cocksucking Fanatics, Digital Sin’s Teens Like It Rough, Manuel’s Fucking POV 5 from Jules Jordan Video, and Hookup Hotshot: Extreme Dating from upstart Evil Angel performer/director Bryan Gozzling.Melissa Moore (like Riley Reid) is represented Spiegler Girls. Find her on Twitter @OhMelissaMoore and Instragram @MelissaMoorePlease. Photo above by Chris King/ReelSeduction.com. Click here for more photos of Melissa Moore and other performers shot on AVN's talent nights, sponsored by MyFreeCams.com and Porndoe.com.