After earning her degree, she posed in nude modelling photographs for five years and was featured in "Club International" and "Hustler magazine". Swift segued from nude model work to Southern California's adult film industry, where she began her career in 1995. Her first softcore scene was in Playboy TV's "Up Close and Dangerous". Her first hardcore sex scene was in "Space Sirens". She went on to win several awards, including the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award in 1998. She was, for a period, a contract girl with Wicked Pictures.