Biography: Danielle was raised in Atherton, California. Her father was a civil engineer, who interested Danielle in working as a lawyer who could understand engineering, though this never came to pass.
Her parents, with whom she had little relations prior to her beginning in pornography , sent her to an all-girl college-preparatory high school in Palo Alto, California. At age 17, she attended University of California, Los Angeles to achieve a Bachelor's degree in Art History. She admitted she was frustrated by her collegiate experience, becoming disillusioned by "self-important professors and their need to publish and make everybody buy their book". By the first semester of her second year in college, she began exotic dancing to supplement her income and to fulfill a fantasy she believed she was incapable of doing. She intended to drop out for a quarter, but chose not to resume her education to enter pornographic modeling and films.
In 1999, she received breast augmentation to boost her bust size to 36-DD in an attempt to make more money. Despite finding out that it had not helped, she is known for this attribute.
When she began, she mainly performed in lesbian pornography, preferring male partners in her personal life.
