Asa Akira (born January 3, 1986) is an American pornographic actress and adult film director. 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.

Akira was born in Manhattan, New York, the only child of Japanese parents, both immigrants. She lived in SoHo and moved to Tokyo at age 9 when her father, a portrait photographer, was relocated there for work. She returned to the United States at age 13 and moved to Downtown Brooklyn and later Clinton Hill. In a 2014 interview, Akira described her childhood as being “perfectly normal.” Her family spoke Japanese at home and were “health nuts” who avoided junk food. As a teenager, Akira worked at the children’s bookstore Books of Wonder as a cashier.

Akira was able to secure a scholarship to attend United Nations International School in Manhattan because her grandfather was a Japanese diplomat for 45 years. She was not invited to return in her sophomore year due to her poor grades, so she enrolled in Washington Irving High School in Gramercy Park. She transferred to City-As-School for her senior year.

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.

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.

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