At the age of 17, she began working as a stripper. Shane started her adult film career in 1993. According to her Adult Video News magazine profile she and a girlfriend were impressed by a video made by Seymore Butts and decided to make a video of her own which she sent to him. He invited her to Los Angeles and soon after she began making videos with him and for other production companies. The videos she made with Butts became among the most popular titles in 'reality porn'. In 1994, Shane and Butts caused controversy when Shane performed a sex act on an volunteer firefighter at an Elmont, NY fire department without permission of the department for the video "Seymore and Shane Playing with Fire". In addition to performing and appearing in Seymore Butts videos and those for her own production company, she worked predominantly in non-sex roles for a variety of adult film studios such as Evil Angel, Flying Leap Productions, Odyssey Entertainment, VCA Pictures, and Wicked Pictures.