All All. Sign In. Biography Awards Trivia FAQ IMDbPro. Jump to Overview 3 Biography 1 Trademarks 1 Trivia 13 Quotes 1 Edit. Darren Keith Edwards. The youngest of six children, Darren James birth name Darren Keith Edwards was born on February 25, in Detroit, Michigan, where he and his siblings were raised by their divorced mother in what was then the West Side's Herman Gardens housing project.
Known to family and friends for his amiable and somewhat shy personality, the young Edwards would spend much of his free time at the local gymnasium lifting weights, boxing and exercising rigorously in an effort to find an escape from the hardships of poverty that he faced during his difficult youth.
After graduating from high school, he sought a new direction in his life by enlisting in the navy, during which time he was able to travel throughout much of Asia before docking at Port Hueneme in Ventura County, California in He settled in nearby Oxnard where, in , he tried to join the police force, but was rejected due to a bad knee and back. Not wishing to return to Detroit, he would eventually spend the next few years sometimes homeless struggling to find work.
Then his luck changed. In he was referred by a friend to what Darren was told would be a modeling job in the San Fernando Valley it was, in fact, an adult video shoot. Despite finding out the truth, he accepted the job as he was in need of money. During the shoot he had no problems performing in front of the cameras, and was soon offered to appear in more videos. After years of aimlessness and failure, Darren now felt confident that he may have finally found a line of work where he would actually have the opportunity to prosper and make good money if he worked hard enough.
But success in the multi-billion-dollar-a-year porn industry would not come quickly for him, in spite of his reputation for being easy-going and responsible. And though well endowed and extremely muscular for his slender frame, his "average guy's" looks hindered him from achieving the kind of star status that other African-American male performers like Sean Michaels , for example, had acquired before him, and to his frustration he found himself forced to appear throughout most of his career merely in supporting roles, oftentimes in highly crude and cheaply made "gonzo"-style videos, as well as a good number of stereotypical "black on white" flicks, many with racially offensive and exploitative titles.
