Asa Akira is an actress, director, and miscellaneous crew born in New York City on January 3, 1985. She lived in Japan between the ages of six and thirteen, and attended Washington Irving High School in New York City from 2001 to 2002. She was a regular on the radio show "Bubba the Love Sponge" for about a year before beginning her career in X-rated movies at age twenty in 2006. She has been nominated for several AVN Awards and has several tattoos. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Asa Akira, a well-known actress, director, and member of the miscellaneous crew in the United States, is reported to have an estimated net worth of $400,000 as of 2024. With her notable contributions to various aspects of the entertainment industry, Akira has built a successful career throughout the years. Her work as an actress and director has garnered significant attention and recognition, allowing her to accumulate financial success as well. Asa Akira continues to shine as a talented and versatile figure in the entertainment world.
Biography/Timeline
1930
Akira co-hosted the 30th Annual AVN Awards alongside pornographic ActressJesse 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.
2006
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". She met pornographic Actress Gina Lynn on the show and she offered her porn work. 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. Asa is her real first name, which means "morning" in Japanese, and the last name in her stage name was taken from the anime film Akira.
2009
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.
2011
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, and 2014.
2012
Akira states that she is sexually attracted to both men and "girls that look like boys". She dislikes being called bisexual, claiming to lean towards heterosexuality but to still be uncertain. She was once engaged to pornographic actor Rocco Reed. In December 2012, she married pornographic actor and Director Toni Ribas. She states that aside from their on-screen work, their relationship is monogamous.
2013
In 2013 Akira and Artist David Choe started a free online 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.
2014
Akira wrote a memoir titled Insatiable: Porn—A 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.
2015
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.
2016
Akira is an Award-winning adult film Actress who, as of May 2016, had appeared in over 505 adult films. In 2012, she married adult film actor Toni Ribas. In 2013, she became the second Asian person to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award. She received her AVN Female Performer of the Year Award, a year after Bobbi Starr received the same honor.
2017
In 2017, Akira was featured in a live action segment on an episode of Family Guy.