Determined since high school to be an actress, Nikki Tyler moved from Berkeley, California, to Los Angeles to attend college, and in order to pay her way through school began doing nude modeling layouts. She quickly became one of the top nude models in the country, appearing in such magazines as "Penthouse". She left college - where she had been studying to be a clinical psychologist - and attended make-up school, and before long she got a job doing makeup for shoots at Vivid Video. She was soon persuaded to try out before the cameras. After consulting with her husband, she agreed to begin per…