Best Female Pornstars

Jenna Jameson was born and raised in Las Vegas by her father, and by the time she was 18 the bright lights were already drawing her in. She studied ballet, but it was stripping that started her on her road to superstardom. Dancing led to nude modeling, and by her 20th birthday she had appeared in dozens of top men's mags, including "Penthouse," "Hustler," "High Society" and "Cheri." A visit to a porn set piqued her interest in a hardcore career, and Wicked Pictures signed her to an exclusive contract after a bidding war. It took only a few releases for Jenna to become the most popular young starlet around. She catapulted to the top of the porn heap, and in 1996 she scored an unprecedented triple crown by taking home the XRCO Best New Starlet, the F.O.X.E. Video Vixen and the AVN Best New Starlet awards. Jenna has been branching out into more mainstream projects lately, including a featured role in Howard Stern's Private Parts (1997). She remains one of the most popular pornstresses in the industry today.

Asia Carrera's stunning curves can be seen in more than 250 hardcore movies. Her looks combine delicate Asian features with voluptuous silicone breasts. Her fans not only admire her mouth-watering body but also her brains--a self-taught web designer, she is also a member of MENSA.

At the tender age of 13 this daughter of a Japanese father and a German mother was already playing music by Johann Sebastian Bach on the piano in Carnegie Hall. Thanks to a federal grant she was able to study Japanese language and Economics at New Jersey's Rutgers University, but this was only after she had run away from home as a teenager because of the pressure her demanding parents put on her. By the age of 17 she was homeless. To get through her studies at the university she turned to stripping. After becoming one of New Jersey's best-paid exotic dancers she decided to devote her life to getting richer and richer; she never wanted to live out on the street again. When she heard about girls making thousands of dollars in the porn biz, she moved to Los Angeles. A mutual friend introduced her to director Bud Lee, who instantly put her in one of his feature films. The rest, as they say, is history.

Asia has retired from making adult movies and only returns to do the occasional big-budget flick. She runs her own website and spends her time chatting with fans via email or day trading shares on the stock exchange.

Tall (5'9"), lovely, and slender brunette knockout Tori Black was born Michelle Chapman on August 26, 1988 in Seattle, Washington. Tori has been a dancer since she was seven years old (she used to be a belly dance instructor). Moreover, Black played football and boxed while growing up. In 2007 Tori attended Western Washington University, where she majored in Journalism and minored in Sociology - Women's Studies. She started performing in explicit hardcore movies in her late teens that same year. Black was the Penthouse Pet of the Month for December, 2008 and the Twisty's Treat of the Month for September, 2009. Tori was nominated for an AVN Award for Best New Starlet in 2009. Among the awards Black has won are an XRCO Award for Cream Dream, a CAVR Award for Hottie of the Year, and a FAME Award for Favorite Rookie Starlet in 2009, a CAVR Award for Star of the Years and an XBIZ Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2010, and back to back AVN and XRCO Awards for Female Performer of the Year in 2010 and 2011 (Black has the distinction of being the first adult film star to win AVN Awards two years in a row in this particular category). Tori was named one of the top twelve female stars in porn by Maxim magazine in 2010 and one of the single most popular stars in porn by CNBC in 2011. Black has a self-designed tattoo of a star and five rings on her lower right abdomen and a pierced tongue and navel. She likes video games and air hockey. Tori gave birth to a son on October 14, 2011.

Born in Ontario, Canada, Sunny Leone grew up in idyllic surroundings, loving the cold Canadian winters and the snow that came with them. Building snowmen and ice skating were regular activities outside the Leone household every November through March. With a love for sports, singing and dancing, young Sunny was a consummate performer, basking in the attention it brought her and eating up every word of praise that came her way. Everything changed in 1996, when her family packed up and moved to Southern California. It was a difficult adjustment for the little Canadian girl, whose innocence and naiveté were less than fully appreciated by her new high school classmates. In addition, her adopted hometown lacked the change of seasons she so loved in the Old Country. Sunny persevered, however, and after graduating in 1999, enrolled in a local junior college. After a friend told her she should try modeling - a natural choice for a young beauty - she found a contact who specialized in adult entertainment and decided to give it a try.

Though initially wary of taking her clothes off and striking suggestive poses for the camera, curiosity got the better of her and she dived in full force, quickly becoming one of the most sought-after adult models. In 2001 Sunny was named Penthouse Pet of the Month for the March issue, and numerous layouts in other magazines soon followed, including "Cheri", "High Society", "Swank", "Leg World", "Hustler" and "Club International". She also appeared in the Penthouse: Pets in Paradise (2001) home video, as well as Ja Rule's "Livin' It Up" music video.

In 2005, Sunny Leone entered the adult film industry and worked her way to the top, becoming one of the most successful pornstars in the world. In addition to acting in adult films, Leone produced and directed over 60 films under her production company, Sun Lust Pictures. In 2011, Sunny set off to India to appear in the reality TV show Bigg Boss, it was here where her fortune changed and she was offered the lead role in an upcoming erotic thriller, Jism 2 by Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. Following on from the success of Jism 2, Sunny dedicated herself to Indian cinema making appearances not just in Bollywood films but regional cinema with special appearances in song and dance numbers . Her third feature role in Ragini MMS 2 garnered her more praise and box office success. As of 2016 she has appeared in over 20 Indian films and will be seen in some big projects in 2017, most notably Raees (2017) starring Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan. A documentary titled Mostly Sunny (2016) released at the Toronto International Film Festival and charted her meteoric rise from pornstar to Bollywood star.

Buxom, gorgeous, and curvaceous brunette knockout Audrey Bitoni was born Audrey Arroyo on August 16, 1986 in Pasadena, California. She's of German, Spanish, and Italian descent. Bitoni grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Audrey attended Arizona State University, where she graduated with a B.A. in Communications in 2006. Moreover, it was while attending Arizona State University that Bitoni answered a Playboy magazine call for a college newsstand special edition which she eventually wound up gracing the cover of. Audrey first began performing in explicit hardcore movies in 2006. Bitoni was nominated for an AVN Award for Best New Starlet in 2008. In addition, Audrey was the cover girl for and featured centerfold in the November, 2008 issue of Club International magazine as well as the Pet of the Month in the November, 2008 issue of Penthouse magazine. Bitoni has not only worked for various adult websites that include Twistys, Brazzers, and Aziani Models, but also has modeled for noted adult photographers Suze Randall and Holly Randall.

Tall (5'8"), buxom, and shapely brunette knockout Jayden Jaymes was born Michele Mayo on February 13, 1986 in Upland, California. Jayden has a younger sister and a brother. Jaymes did tap and ballet for eight years while growing up. Jayden started out in the adult entertainment industry as an exotic dancer while attending college full time (she studied accounting and business). The blue-eyed stunner began performing in explicit hardcore movies at age 20 in November, 2006. She was nominated for an AVN Award for Best New Starlet in 2009 and won an AVN Award for Best Group Sex Scene in 2010. Moreover, Jaymes has appeared in a few mainstream pictures in small roles. Jayden runs her own official website and operates her own fiercely opinionated and controversial blog in which she candidly addresses the ups and downs of the adult business. She resides in New York City.

Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, Belladonna grew up in in various areas of the U.S. and Europe, as her parents' career dictated much traveling. Shortly after she turned 18 she was dancing at a strip club in Salt Lake City when a girlfriend told her that she could make good money working in adult magazines and videos in Los Angeles. She took her girlfriend's advice, traveled to L.A., broke into the adult-film business and has been there ever since.

Gianna Michaels was born on June 6, 1983 in Seattle, Washington. Her first job was at a fast-food restaurant. In 2001 she was dating a guy who was from Southern California, so they moved there. She got a job as an office receptionist. There wasn't much money in that, so she got into nude modeling and from there moved to porn films. She has made over 200 adult films and has also appeared in amateur adult (aka "gonzo") websites. She also sells videos and shoots exclusive content for her own personal website.

Sasha Grey first made her name as one of the most notorious adult film stars in recent history; but with a no regrets attitude, she moved on from her former career, in 2009 at age 21. She has gone on to star in HBO's Entourage, published NEÜ SEX a book of photographs, and she DJ's internationally. In 2013, she published her first novel, the internationally successful The Juliette Society, in 25 countries. She regularly tours internationally, as an artist, author, actress, and DJ.

Porn star Jenna Haze was born in Fullerton, California, spending the majority of her childhood in La Habra, California. She also lived in Lancaster, California and Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Her parents divorced when she was young. Having been a self-described "teacher's pet" when she was a child, she gradually turned rebellious. Haze dropped out of high school at 15 and finished her education by being home-schooled. She worked at a succession of low-paying jobs such as a fast food manager, oil change girl, toy store employee, waited at a pie shop and a Marie Callender's restaurant for a while. When she turned 18 she tried stripping for a living, but didn't like it and quit after only one day. A year later she met someone at a club who had connections to the adult-film industry and told her she would be perfect for that business. Intrigued, she decided to try it, and two days later was shooting her first porn scene at a studio in the San Fernando Valley. At first she used an agent to secure work, but soon realized that she could do better on her own and dropped him. She worked almost nonstop until she took a "breather" during the Christmas season of 2001 and didn't make any films for several months. When she came back in early 2002 she was hired by Jill Kelly Productions for one film, and they were so impressed with her that they offered her a contract, which she eventually accepted. Her first mainstream project was Superbad (2007) where she portrayed a small role known simply as Vagtastic Voyage Girl #2. She has also appeared in the 2009 action thriller Crank: High Voltage (2009). In 2014, she played Suzy Whitefeather in the horror film Raised by Wolves (2014).

Katie Morgan was born on 17 March 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) and TripTank (2014). She has been married to James Jackman since 9 September 2009. She was previously married to ???.

Extremely cute and petite blonde bombshell Bree Olson was born Rachel Marie Oberlin to a single mother on October 7, 1986, in Houston, Texas. Bree was an only child until she was nine (she has a younger half-sister). Her maternal grandmother was a Holocaust survivor from Ukraine. Bree had a pretty traumatic childhood filled with poverty and abuse. Her mother was schizophrenic, and her step-father was very passive. She began lashing out. This landed her in a juvenile correction facility at the age of 11 and was incarcerated multiple times for a total of three years, remaining on parole until her 18th birthday. She got her GED and attended Purdue University as a pre-med Biology major, but during her second year at college, she could no longer manage juggling working full-time as a telemarketer and school, and desperate for money, she decided to try porn.

She began performing in hardcore X-rated porno fare in November 2006. She signed a one-year contract with Adam & Eve Productions in 2007 and was Twistys Treat of the Month for June 2007. Bree was the Pet of the Month in the March 2008 issue of "Penthouse" and graced the cover of the March 2008 UK edition of "Hustler." She has also been featured in such men's magazines as "Club," "Rockstar" and "Barely Legal." She won an AVN Award for Best New Starlet in 2008 and went on to win a second AVN Award for Best New Web Starlet the following year, in which she also won the title of Miss FreeOnes.

Olson lived for a while with Charlie Sheen as one of his "goddesses" and retired from the adult entertainment industry in 2011 at age 25.

A "military brat", Jesse Jane grew up on military bases and was somewhat of a tomboy. She combined her love of sports with her long training in dance and became a top cheerleader in high school. After graduation she began doing TV commercials, including one for the "Hooters" restaurant chain. She won several "Hawaiian Tropics" beauty contests and managed to snag a role in Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003). She was named "Miss Photogenic" by the American Dreams Pageant, and soon afterwards embarked on a career as a top bikini model. Her desire to break into the film business led her to sign a contract with adult-film production company Digital Playground. The films the company put her in have proved extremely popular, as has her line of sex toys. Her films have been nominated for numerous AVN awards, as has she herself, and in 2004 AFW put her on the cover of its directory.

Tera Patrick's height (5'9"), exotic look (her mother is Thai and her father was an American Army doctor of English and Dutch descent) and spectacular body would seem more suited to a high-fashion model--which is exactly what she was, having spent five years as a model with the world-famous Ford Agency. She was born in Montana, and her family moved to San Francisco shortly thereafter. Her mother soon left the family to go back to Thailand, and she was raised in San Francisco by her father. While strolling around that city's famed Fisherman's Wharf one day she was spotted by a talent scout for Morning Sun, an international division of the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency, and at the tender age of 13 was signed to a contract. At 18 she quit modeling and returned to school, getting a degree in microbiology. Although she found employment as a nurse, her curiosity about nude modeling (something she had always wondered about) got the best of her, and she was soon appearing in men's magazines. By 1999 she felt ready to dive into porn. After appearing in a few specialty B&D tapes she went full-time into mainstream porn, and began her meteoric rise to the top. Her smoldering looks, mind-boggling (and all-natural) body and enthusiastic performances made her an instant favorite with fans tired of the typical bored, silicone-inflated porn queens.

She married actor Evan Seinfeld (Oz (1997)) and was preparing to leave the adult-film business, but instead--in an unprecedented move--successfully broke out of her agreement with Digital Playground and started her own production company, Teravision Inc., and signed a contract with Vivid Video in which the only boy/girl work she will do is with her husband (they have since divorced), although she will work with other women. That news may have come as a major disappointment to her legions of fans, but a little Tera Patrick is still far better than no Tera Patrick at all.

Kayden Kross was born on September 15, 1985 in Sacramento, California. Of Swedish descent, Kross was a bookworm in high school. Kayden started out in the adult entertainment industry at age 18 as a stripper at the club Rick's Showgirls in Rancho Cordova, California. Kross was subsequently contacted by an adult industry agent who helped her get work as a nude model in various men's magazines. Kayden eventually made the leap into performing in explicit hardcore movies and signed an exclusive contract with the top porn company Vivid in November, 2006. She became a free agent a year later and went on to sign an exclusive contract with Adam & Eve. Kross was the Pet of the Month for the September, 2008 issue of Penthouse and launched her official website that same year. In January, 2010 Kayden became a contract girl for Digital Playground. Kross was cited by CNBC as one of the twelve most popular girls in hardcore cinema in January, 2011 and hosted the Xbiz Awards Show in 2012. Moreover, Kayden not only writes columns for the magazines Complex and Xbiz, but also pens a regular blog for Xbiz.com. Among the awards Kross has won for her work in adult fare are the Hot d'Or for Best American Starlet in 2009, both a Venus Award for Best Actress International and an Erotixxx Award for Best U.S. Actress in 2010, and an AVN Award for Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene in 2011.

Tall (5'8"), buxom, and shapely brunette knockout Aletta Ocean was born Dora Varga on December 14, 1987 in Budapest, Hungary. Ocean was a student in an economic school before she first began modeling at age nineteen in the wake of winning the title Miss Tourism Hungary in a beauty pageant (she was also one of the top six finalists in the Miss Hungary beauty contest). Aletta started performing in explicit hardcore movies in April, 2007; she has appeared in X-rated features for such notable companies as Private, Evil Angel, Digital Playground, New Sensations, Zero Tolerance, and Jules Jordan Video. Moreover, Ocean has appeared in both Penthouse and the Hungarian edition of Playboy. Aletta won AVN Awards for both Female Foreign Performer of the Year and Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production in 2010.

Born at a military base in Panama, Alexis Texas was raised in a small town near San Antonio, Texas. Alexis describes herself as an outgoing and fun-loving person. In high school, she held tutorials for her male classmates on how to take off a girl's bra. While working at a college bar in October 2006, Alexis met some people working for the adult film company Shane's World. She agreed to appear in a film they were making entitled Shane's World's College Amateur Tour In Texas. Following this, she traveled to Florida to work for Bang Bros and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue adult film acting full time. In 2009, Alexis won CAVR Performer of the year award. By that time, she had filmed over 200 scenes. In 2009, Alexis also formed her own company, entitled Alexis Texas Entertainment, through which she launched her own web site.

Buxom-blonde bombshell Kagney Linn Karter was born in Houston, TX. She grew up in St. Joseph, MO, and Ridgway, PA. She not only ran track and was a cheerleader in high school, but participated in speech and debate. She worked as a hostess at a Mexican restaurant and at Office Max prior to starting out in the adult entertainment industry as an erotic dancer in Missouri. She was named Missouri's" Deja Vu Showgirl of the Year" in 2007 and was a national second-place runner-up that same year. She eventually signed with top modeling agency L.A. Direct Models and posed for photo shoots for noted adult photographer Holly Randall.

Kagney began performing in explicit hardcore movies in 2008 and did her first sex scene for Naughty America. She was the Pet of the Month in the June 2009 issue of" Penthouse" and graced the covers of the Apri 2009 issue of "Hustler" and the June 2009 issue of "Adult Video News". In addition, she appears on the cover of Holly Randall's photo book "Erotic Dream Girls". In January 2010 Karter signed an exclusive contract with Zero Tolerance Entertainment. That same year she also won an XRCO Award for New Starlet, an AVN Award for Best New Starlet, and an XBIZ Award for New Starlet of the Year.

Extremely cute, bubbly, and sexy 5'3" blonde bombshell Lexi Belle was born on August 5, 1987 in Independence, Louisiana. Belle also lived in McComb, Mississippi and was a self-described "band geek" in high school (she played the trombone). She moved with her parents to Los Angeles, California. Lexi lost her virginity at age 17. Belle was working in a video store when she was approached by someone who had seen her MySpace profile and wanted to recruit her into the adult film industry. Lexi visited her first porn movie set three months later. Belle did her first on-screen sex scene at age 18 in December, 2005; this was also the first time she ever performed fellatio on a man. She initially used the name Nollie and first worked for Oz Entertainment. Lexi was nominated for an AVN Award for Best New Starlet in 2009. Belle won the Adam Film World Guide Award for Teen Dream of the Year in 2008, the XRCO Award for Cream Dream in 2010, and AVN Awards for Best New Web Starlet in 2010 and Best Supporting Actress in 2011. She's an avid fan of both "Star Wars" and punk music and goes to Six Flags amusement parks on a regular basis. Lexi was named one of the 12 most popular girls in porn by CNBC in 2011. Belle was the Pet of the Month in the May, 2013 issue of Penthouse and was named Pet of the Year for 2014.

A California native, Riley Steele started out working at Starbucks and at a golf course snack bar. As fate would have it, she found her big break in the form of meeting porn star Jesse Jane at a signing for the sex parody Pirates (2005). Jesse advised her to enter the business, and shortly afterward Riley got a card from her. It wasn't long after that when Riley contacted Joone, the director and founder of the porn production company Digital Playground. In 2008 Riley made her debut in the sequel to "Pirates", called Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge (2008) and in 2010, along with other porn stars, she appeared in the horror-comedy Piranha 3D: For Your Consideration (2010).

Tiny (5'3"), but busty and shapely hazel-eyed brunette knockout Eva Angelina was born Nicole Clyne on March 14, 1985 in Huntington Beach, California. She's of Irish, English, Cuban, and Chinese descent. Angelina spent the first two years of her life in Madrid, Spain. After her father was hired by the Swiss military to build airplanes for the country when she was eight years old, Eva lived in Switzerland for two years. Angelina grew up as a teenager in Orange County, California, where she attended Foothill High School. Eva did her first hardcore sex scene three months after her 18th birthday. Angelina is well known for wearing glasses in many of her adult movies. From May to November in 2004 Eva took a temporary hiatus from adult cinema; during this time she returned to school and worked at the Macaroni Grill. Angelina was the Pet of the Month in the June, 2010 issue of Penthouse magazine. She was named one of the top 12 stars in porn by Maxim magazine that same year. Among the awards Eva has won for her work in adult films are a XRCO Award for Single Performance - Actress and an AVN Award for Best Actress - Video in 2008, a XRCO Award for Orgasmic Analist and an AVN Award for Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene in 2010, and an AVN Award for Best Tease Performance in 2011.

Born in the Ukraine but raised in Toronto, Canada, Nikki Benz was a top figure and calendar model before becoming an exotic dancer. She had always had an interest in the adult-film industry, and one day just decided to give it a try. She made her first adult film in 2002, liked it, and has stayed in the business ever since.

Texas native Jessica Drake was a dancer in an El Paso strip club that often featured porn stars, and she would watch them and think that she could do it better. She spoke with friends who were involved in the adult-film industry and eventually decided to give it a try herself. She made her first film in 1999, and in 2000 was nominated for Best New Starlet at the AVN Awards. In addition to her work in hardcore, she has also appeared in quite a few "softcore" films made for cable TV and has made guest appearances on several TV series. In 2003 she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked Pictures.

Slim and sultry brunette Cassandra Cruz was born on September 27, 1982 in Weehawken, New Jersey. Cruz grew up in a quiet small town in Morris County, New Jersey. Following graduation from high school, Cassandra went to New York City and attended the Parsons School of Design, where she majored in illustration before graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts. However, Cruz was fired from her college job, but fortunately came across an ad on Craigslist offering to fly women out to Los Angeles, California to participate in hardcore shoots for $1,000 per day. Cassandra discovered that she liked the work so much that she decided to settle permanently in Los Angeles and pursue a career in porn. Among the notable companies and adult websites that Cruz has worked for are Kink.com, PornPros, Penthouse, Hustler, FM Concepts, Evil Angel, Digital Sin, Wicked Pictures, Sticky Video, Reality Kings, Jules Jordan Video, Kick Ass Pictures, New Sensations, and Pulse Distribution.

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