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COPYRIGHT 2004 Curve Magazine, Outspoken Enterprises, San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 863-6538
New action star J.A. Steel (nee Jaquelyn Ruffner) isn't your typical Hollywood starlet. She's a full-contact amateur fighter, a master diver who searches wreckage and caverns, a former NRA instructor and a former Army master marksman. Er, markswoman. And, she's a lesbian, although this is one of the first times she's spoken to the press about it.
Steel, who wrote, produced, directed and starred in the action film The Third Society, began fighting in grade school ("I quickly learned that people couldn't make fun of you if your fist was in their face"). At 17, she left her rural Pennsylvania home bound for Hollywood, making stops at USC's famed film school (where she flunked out of her filmmaking class, in part, because she reminded her prof of his ex, and graduated in social science and communications) and at Tales From the Crypt (where she did her first internship). She went on to learn martial-arts filmmaking under the legendary Sho Kosugi. Heady with possibility, Ruffner then left Kosugi to make films her own way.
Then she went broke. Well, not completely broke, but while...
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