Asa Akira


Asa Akira is an American pornographic film actress, writer and adult film director. Akira has appeared in 689 adult films as of June 2023. In 2013, she became the third Asian performer to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award. Akira hosted the 1st and 2nd ceremonies for the Pornhub Awards. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame, XRCO Hall of Fame, Urban X Hall of Fame, and Brazzers Hall of Fame.

Early life

A native of New York City, Akira grew up in an upper middle-class family and attended private schools in New York and Japan. She lived in Tokyo for four years before moving back to the United States in her teens.
Asa is her real first name, which means "morning" in Japanese. Her professional surname was taken from the anime film Akira.

Career

Pornographic career

Akira began working as a dominatrix when she was 19 years old. She later worked as a stripper at the Hustler Club in New York. In 2006–2007 she was a regular on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show and was known as the "Show Whore". Her first boy-girl scene was with Travis Knight for Gina Lynn Productions, after having already done several girl-girl scenes, mainly with Lynn. She then signed a contract with Vouyer Media before becoming a freelancer six months later.
Akira received several award nominations for her role in David Aaron Clark's 2009 film, Pure, in which she plays a telephonist at a fetish dungeon who has an affair with the head-mistress' husband.
Akira co-hosted the 30th Annual AVN Awards alongside pornographic actress Jesse Jane and comedian April Macie. She won the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award that night. She was also the most awarded person during that ceremony.
In 2013, she made her directorial debut with Elegant Angel's Gangbanged 6.
On October 9, 2013, Akira announced that she signed an exclusive performing contract with Wicked Pictures. Her debut film as a contract performer for the company was Asa Is Wicked.

Mainstream media appearances

In January 2014, Akira, Dana DeArmond, Chanel Preston, and Jessie Andrews were featured in a Cosmopolitan magazine article titled "4 Porn Stars on How They Stay Fit." The article was inspired by actress Gabrielle Union's comment made on Conan O'Brien's talk show about striving to follow the fitness routines of the porn stars she saw at her gym.
In 2014, Akira featured as a guest in episode 1 of season 3 of The Eric Andre Show.
In 2017, Akira appeared as herself in the first episode of the sixteenth season of Family Guy in a live-action casting couch cutaway scene with Peter Griffin. Akira later noted that, ironically, this was her first casting couch scene. The episode featured a recurring joke of people asking Peter "who was the girl on the couch" and Peter giving a deadpan reply that he is certain each inquirer already knows who she is. In the eighth episode of the twentieth season after Peter is fired from his job, he tries to clear his browser history, but it is too late as the company IT guy notes that Peter is "all in" on Akira.

Other media

In 2011, Complex ranked Akira fourth on their list of "The Top 100 Hottest Porn Stars Right Now" and at sixth on their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time". LA Weekly ranked her third on their list of "10 Innovative Porn Stars Who Could Be the Next Sasha Grey" in 2013. She was also placed on CNBC's yearly list "The Dirty Dozen", the site's annual ranking of the adult industry's most popular and successful stars in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
In 2013 Akira and artist David Choe started a podcast featuring 90-minute episodes called DVDASA. It is aimed at a young adult audience, with its goal being to help youth with their problems related to sexuality, career, relationships, etc.
In June 2014, Akira appeared on a YouTube video with vlogger Caspar Lee.
Akira wrote a memoir titled Insatiable: PornA Love Story which was released in May 2014 by Grove Press. In July 2015, she signed a contract with Cleis Press to publish her second book, titled Dirty Thirty: A Memoir, a collection of essays, which was released in the fall of 2016.
On April 6, 2015, The Hundreds started releasing episodes for a series titled Hobbies with Asa Akira, which features Akira trying out different activities such as tattooing, boxing, taxidermy, and ice sculpting.
Akira was the host of The Sex Factor, a 2016 online reality show where eight men and eight women competed for a $1 million prize.

Personal life

Akira states that she is sexually attracted to both men and "girls that look like boys". She dislikes being called bisexual, saying that she leans towards heterosexuality, but is still uncertain. She was once engaged to former pornographic actor Rocco Reed. She was also married to pornographic actor and director Toni Ribas, and she stated that aside from their on-screen work, their relationship was monogamous.
Akira identifies as a feminist.

Awards

YearCeremonyCategoryWork
2011AVN AwardBest All-Girl Three-Way Sex Scene Buttwoman vs. Slutwoman
2011AVN AwardBest Anal Sex Scene Asa Akira Is Insatiable
2011AVN AwardBest Double Penetration Sex Scene Asa Akira Is Insatiable
2011AVN AwardBest Three-Way Sex Scene Asa Akira Is Insatiable
2011Urban X AwardBest Couple Sex Scene Vajazzled
2011Urban X AwardPorn Star of the Year
2012AVN AwardBest Solo Sex SceneSuperstar Showdown 2: Asa Akira vs. Kristina Rose
2012AVN AwardBest Anal Sex Scene Asa Akira Is Insatiable 2
2012AVN AwardBest Double-Penetration Scene Asa Akira Is Insatiable 2
2012AVN AwardBest Group Sex Scene Asa Akira Is Insatiable 2
2012AVN AwardBest Tease PerformanceAsa Akira Is Insatiable 2
2012AVN AwardBest Three-Way Sex Scene, Boy/Boy/Girl Asa Akira Is Insatiable 2
2012NightMoves AwardBest Gonzo/All Sex Release Asa Akira Is Insatiable 2
2012NightMoves AwardBest Ass rowspan=5
2012XBIZ AwardFemale Performer of the Year-
2012XRCO AwardFemale Performer of the Year-
2012XRCO AwardSuperslut-
2012AEBN VOD AwardPerformer of The Year-
2012Galaxy AwardBest Personal Website AsaAkira.com
2013Sex AwardPorn Star of the Yearrowspan=2
2013Sex AwardPorn's Perfect Girl/Girl Screen Couple -
2013Sex AwardAdult Movie of the YearAsa Akira Is Insatiable 3
2013AVN AwardBest Double-Penetration Sex Scene Asa Akira Is Insatiable 3
2013AVN AwardBest Group Sex Scene Asa Akira Is Insatiable 3
2013AVN AwardBest Three-Way Sex Scene Asa Akira Is Insatiable 3
2013AVN AwardBest POV Sex Scene Asa Akira to the Limit
2013AVN AwardBest Star ShowcaseAsa Akira to the Limit
2013AVN AwardFemale Performer of the Yearrowspan=4
2013XRCO AwardFemale Performer of the Year-
2013NightMoves AwardBest Ethnic Performer -
2013Galaxy AwardBest Female Performer -
2014AVN AwardBest Porn Star Website AsaAkira.com
2014NightMoves AwardBest Body
2014NightMoves AwardBest All-Girl Release Alexis & Asa
2015XRCO AwardMainstream Adult Media Favorite
2017AVN AwardBest Solo/Tease PerformanceAsa Goes To Hell
2017XBIZ AwardBest Supporting ActressDNA
2017Urban X AwardSocial Media Star of the Yearrowspan=3
2017Urban X AwardHall of Fame-
2018AVN AwardMainstream Star of the Year-
2018XBIZ AwardBest Actress – Couples-Themed ReleaseThe Blonde Dahlia
2019AVN AwardMainstream Venture of the Yearrowspan=7
2019AVN AwardHall of Fame-
2019Pornhub AwardBest Fan Club-
2020XRCO AwardHall of Fame-
2020Pornhub AwardFavorite MILF-
2022Pornhub AwardFavorite Social Media Personality-
2023BrazzersHall of Fame-