Asa Akira is an American porn actress and director. She has Japanese ancestry. By May 2016, she has starred in more than 505 adult films. In 2013, as the second Asian origin, she won the AVN Award for Best Actor of the Year. She chose her artist name from her original first name, and her second name came from the anime series Akira, which was released in Japan in 1988.
Asa Akira was born on January 3, 1985, in Manhattan, New York. She lived in Japan between the ages of 6 and 13 but she attended an American school.
Then, between 2001 and 2002, she attended New York High School. She graduated in 2004. Between 2006 and 2007, she regularly participated in the radio show Bubba the Love Sponge.
After finishing her studies, she worked as a stripper at a bar in New York. She met Gina Lynn, with whom she later shot her first porn scene.
Career
She has been active in the porn business since 2006.
In her first scene, she starred with Gina Lynn in a lesbian scene.
In 2011, she won several AVN awards. Then in 2012, she was voted Best Female Actor of the Year at the XBIZ Awards. She also received the Best Actress of the Year award for her performance at the 2013 AVN Awards Gala in 2012.
Between 2012 and 2017, she was a couple with porn actor Toni Ribas. In 2013, she hosted one of the AVN Awards Gala. She also shot her first porn film as a director this year.
Her first book, Insatiable: Porn- A Love Story, was published in 2014.
This was followed in July 2015 her second book Dirty Thirty: A Memoir.
In 2015, she made an 8-part video series called Hobbies with Asa Akira, where she presented the profession’s mysteries with representatives of the occupations she found interesting.
In the same year, she became a mentor and presenter for the Sex Factor adult film talent search. She worked with Keiran Lee, Lexi Bell and Tori Black. The winner was Blair Williams.
In 2017, she appeared in the first episode of the 16th season of the American television cartoon series Family Guy.
Her third book, Asarotica, was also published in October 2017.
By 2018, she had become one of Pornhub’s ambassadors. Among other things, she co-directed the Pornhub Podcast, in which she talks to other actors in the profession. She also hosted the first Pornhub Awards.
Her first child was born in March 2019.
Other interesting things
Akira considers herself a feminist. In 2012, she was cast in Starlet. And in 2014, she starred in the American comedy Live Nude Girls.
In 2013, they launched a one-part 90-minute Podcast with David Cho, called DVDASA. These podcasts focused on young adults and tried to help with their various problems—for example, purpose in life, sexuality, career, relationship, etc.
In November 2014, she appeared on The Eric Andre Show. She described this as the strangest experience of her life. She was ranked among the top 10 most popular porn stars in the world in 2016.
Akira is also active in social media and has millions of followers on various platforms. She regularly allows her fans to ask questions in multiple forums.
In 2014, she starred in one of Caspar Lee’s YouTube-videos.
In February 2020, she went on the catwalk at New York Fashion Week. And in April 2020, during the Coronavirus outbreak, she donated her income from Pornhub’s website to New York hospitals. And she made a personalized thank-you video for her followers at the charity.
More hot pics of Asa here!
In July 2020, a company called Realdoll modeled a realistic sex robot about her.