Career
Dial is of Italian descent, and she began her adult film career as a teenager, in the film American Built. She has worked for adult studios like Legend and VCA Pictures, and she was a contract performer with Vivid for a year. She withdrew from adult films in the mid-1990s to focus on her college education.
Up until 2004, she still occasionally appeared as a feature club dancer and adult film actress.
She has also done voice acting in English-dubbed hentai anime, like some of her work on Words Worth for NuTech Digital with Jenna Jameson. The Canadian punk band the Dayglo Abortions included a song inspired by her, called "Nikki Dial", on its 1995 album Little Manitoba in the Canoe.