Melissa Hill (born January 8, 1970) is a former pornographic actress and director.^[2] She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2014^[3] and XRCO Hall of Fame in 2015.^[4]

Hill began acting in adult films in 1993 and appeared in more than 200 movies, for a wide variety of producers, over the next ten years until her retirement from hardcore.^[3] Over the course of her career, she was nominated for several AVN Awards.^[3] Hill won the Best Actress—Film award in 1997 for Penetrator 2 (Pleasure Productions).^[3] In 1998, she was named Best Supporting Actress—Film for Paul Thomas' Bad Wives (Vivid Entertainment).^[3] In a 2015 interview, she claimed she retired in part because she did not want to age on camera and in part because she felt her career had reached a "plateau", and she found herself not getting another contract and not wanting to succumb to plastic surgery.^[5]

Hill has also appeared in a variety of mainstream productions, most notably the porn-themed comedy Orgazmo from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.^[3][6] She has acted in non-sex roles, including Beyond Fucked: A Zombie Odyssey^[7] and the porn parodies Underworld^[8] and Measure X.^[3][9]

Hill is a San Francisco native, and she spent most of her childhood studying ballet, even becoming an instructor for five years after graduating from high school.^[3]