Sunny Leone (born Karenjit Kaur Vohra; May 13, 1981) is a Canadian actress, businesswoman, model and pornographic actress. She was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003 and was a contract star for Vivid Entertainment. Named by Maxim as one of the 12 top porn stars in 2010, she has also played roles in independent mainstream films and television shows.

Full Name:  Karenjit Kaur Vohra

Born :          May 13, 1981 (age 31)Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian/American
Ethnicit0y:     Punjabi
Height :        5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[1][2]
Weight :       110 lb (50 kg; 7.9 st)[1][2]
Spouse(s):     Daniel Weber (2011–present)
No. of adult films :    41 as actress, 42 as director (per IAFD)

 

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Early life :

Leone was born in Sarnia, Ontario to Sikh Punjabi parents. Her father was born in Tibet and raised in Delhi, while her mother (who died in 2008) was from Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh. As a young girl, she was very athletic and played street hockey with the boys, and ice skating on a nearby frozen lake.

Although the family was Sikh,her parents enrolled her in Catholic school as it was felt to be unsafe for her to go to public school. There she had her first kiss at 11, lost her virginity to a basketball player at another school at 16, and discovered her bisexuality at age 18. When she was 13, her family moved to Fort Gratiot, Michigan, then to Lake Forest, California a year later, fulfilling her grandparents' dream that the family be together in one place. She graduated from high school in 1999 and enrolled in college.

 

Career :

Before working in the porn industry, she first worked at a German bakery, a Jiffy Lube, and later a tax and retirement firm.

While studying to be a pediatric nurse in Orange County, a classmate who was an exotic dancer introduced Leone to John Stevens, an agent who in turn introduced her to Jay Allen, a photographer for Penthouse magazine. When picking a name for her adult career, she has said that Sunny is her real name and Leone was picked by Bob Guccione, former owner of Penthouse magazine. She posed for Penthouse magazine, and was named Penthouse Pet of the Month for the March 2001 issue, followed by a feature in the Holiday 2001 edition of Hustler magazine as a Hustler Honey. She has also appeared in other magazines including Cheri, Mystique Magazine, High Society, Swank, AVN Online, Leg World, Club International and Lowrider, while her online credits include ModFX Models, Suze Randall, Ken Marcus and Mac & Bumble. Her pictorial credits also include working with stars like Adriana Sage, Jenna Jameson, Jelena Jensen and Aria Giovanni.

In 2003, she was named "Penthouse Pet of the Year" and starred in the video Penthouse Pets in Paradise alongside Tera Patrick and Kyla Cole. In 2005 Adam & Eve appointed her as their West Coast Internet Sales Representative.

That same year, Leone signed a three-year contract with Vivid Entertainment with which she transitioned into the world of hardcore pornography, stating that she would only do lesbian scenes. Her first movie released was titled Sunny and was released in December 2005. Her next movie, Virtual Vivid Girl Sunny Leone, was the first interactive title for Leone, who was the first Vivid Girl to make such a movie. Taking only four days to film, the movie won her her first AVN Award (Best Interactive DVD). She followed this with Sunny Loves Cher, which featured her first on-screen squirting, and The Female Gardner co-starring Mikayla Mendez and Daisy Marie.

Leone's last two movies under her contract with Vivid were It's Sunny in Brazil, which was filmed in Brazil. and The Sunny Experiment also starring Monique Alexander and Brea Lynn.The movies were released in October and December 2007 respectively.

In May 2007, upon re-signing her contract with Vivid for another six films, Leone agreed to perform for the first time with men on camera, but exclusively with her fiancé, Matt Erikson.[32] That summer she also received breast augmentation,[33] and shot her first movie under the new contract titled Sunny Loves Matt. The movie led to her to be nominated for three (out of six) AVN awards in 2009 in addition to being a choice for Female Performer of the Year.[34] She followed up her first boy-girl title with The Other Side of Sunny in October 2008, which would be the last time she would perform with Erikson.

In January 2008, Leone revealed that she was no longer exclusive to Erikson, and had done scenes with other actors, most notably Tommy Gunn, Charles Dera, James Deen and Voodoo. In 2009, Vivid released her only movie performing with other male actors titled "Sunny B/G Adventure". Her final release under contract with Vivid – "Undress Me", once again made her exclusive to performing with just one male actor-Daniel Webber.

In August 2009, she announced the launch of her own studio, Sunlust Pictures, with Daniel Weber as her partner.[39] With her new venture Leone plans to write, direct and create her own brand of adult movies with Vivid Entertainment as her distributor. Her first independent production, The Dark Side of the Sun, was released in March 2009, and was debuted at the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas. In June 2009, she held a casting call in Las Vegas for her second independent production titled Sunny Slumber Party (released September 2009).She followed up with three other self produced features Gia Portrait of a Porn Star (2010) which was nominated for multiple AVN awards, Roleplay (2011) and Goddess (2012) which featured her first anal sex scene .

No longer exclusive to Vivid, Leone has started working with other studios and performers since 2009. She has managed to leverage her online popularity by striking deals with firms like PPPcard, AdultPokerParty.com, Brickhouse, Flirt4Free, Totemcash and Imlive to sell and distribute her content over the internet and other media. She won the "Web Babe of the Year" at the 2008 Xbiz Awards. Her websites and business interests are run under her banner company Leone L.L.C. She indicated in an April 2012 interview that 80 per cent of the traffic on her website, and 60 per cent of her revenue comes from India.

In addition to her film career, Leone has been part of the Vivid Comedy Tour, and has modelled for the Vivid Footwear collection. Leone has also participated in events like the Vivid/ClubJenna Lingerie Bowl and Vivid's Hot Rod Night. Doc Johnson launched a pocket pal in 2006 moulded to her vagina, and in 2008 released the Sunny Leone Exciter vibrator. Control MFG currently uses Leone's image along with other Vivid girls to market their line of skateboards. She is paired with Gab Ekoe, one of the Team Control riders.[58] She also indicated that she plans to launch her own line of lingerie and other Sunny-branded products including a diamond jewellery line.

In September 2009, an iPhone application consisting of a collection of non-nude photos, some videos and a porn star-penned blog was approved by Apple for sale in the iTunes store, making it the first officially sanctioned application featuring a porn star.[60] By February 2010, the app had been removed by Apple from the store.

Leone was voted number 13 (up from number 41 in 2007) on Genesis magazine's "Top 100 Porn stars" list,number 34 on Desiclubs.com's Top 50 Coolest Desis of 2004, and one of the "40 under 40" ranking on AVN Online magazine. In 2010, she was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top female stars in porn. She was voted number 82 in the Top 99 Women for 2012 in AskMen.com's list.

Bigg Boss:

In 2011, she participated in the Indian reality series Bigg Boss, entering the house on day 49. However she refused to divulge her porn star status, and replied to fellow house-mate Pooja Bedi that she was a model and a TV star in America for the last ten years or so. It was reported that she has caused a stir in the larger populace with her Twitter feed gaining 8,000 new followers in just 2 days and Google saying searches for her experienced a "breakout". There have also been complaints lodged with the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting alleging that the Colors TV channel is promoting pornography by having Leone appear on the show; among those who have filed are the Indian Artistes and Actors Forum and Anurag Thakur, member of Lok Sabha and head of the Bharatiya Janata Party's youth wing.

 

Bollywood

During her stay in the Bigg Boss house, Sunny was approached by a Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt who entered the house briefly to offer her the lead role in Jism 2 (the sequel to the 2003 film Jism starring Bipasha Basu). She accepted it, which will result in Pooja Bhatt's production house, Fish Eye Network and Leone's agent discussing the movie further. The first look of the film Jism 2 poster was released anticipating the actress entry in Bollywood. Jism 2 was released on August 3, 2012.

Sunny Leone signed her second Bollywood film which is Ekta Kapoor's Ragini MMS sequel. Ragini MMS, a crossover horror movie was one of the most talked about sleeper hits of 2011. Sunny Leone features in an item number in the upcoming Sanjay Gupta and Ekta Kapoor's film Shootout at Wadala.

 

Personal life

In June 2006, Leone became an American citizen, but plans to remain a dual citizen of Canada. On 14 April 2012, Leone announced that she was now a resident of India. explaining in an interview to The New Indian Express that she was an Overseas Citizen of India and that she was eligible for overseas citizenship because her parents lived in India. She applied for it prior to filming Jism 2.

Although bisexual, she has stated that she prefers men. Leone was engaged to Matt Erikson, a vice-president of marketing at Playboy Enterprises. She currently resides in Hollywood, California with her cat and drives an Audi A5. She mentioned in an interview at the start of 2011 that she was married to Daniel Weber. During her stay in the Bigg Boss house later that same year, Leone indicated that the relationship had by revealing that she had been previously married; she had 'purposely arrived late' to their first date as she was not impressed with him, but he changed her mind by sending 24 roses to her hotel room.

In 2010, Leone's father died of cancer, which he had been first diagnosed with in 1999. In 2011, Leone along with Monique Alexander and Keni Styles ran in the Rock 'n' Roll Los Angeles Half-Marathon to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

A 2008 Eye Weekly article reported that "Leone does her best to maintain a link to Sikh traditions, even if more in theory than in practice. But she's unlikely to disavow her career path due to religion" and that Leone said "Girls will leave the industry claiming that they found God. Well, the fact is, God has always been with them the entire time." In a 2010 interview, she said "It's a community-based religion. You walk into a temple and you're greeted with the utmost respect... But, just like any religion it doesn't want you to shoot adult material. I mean, I grew up going to temple every Sunday. When my parents found out they knew my personality which was very independent. Even if they tried to stop me or tried to steer me the right way they would have lost their daughter. I'm too headstrong. And it wasn't a plan. It just happened and my career and everything just kept getting bigger and bigger."

In her spare time she enjoys abstract paintings, horse riding, reading, playing World of Warcraft, watching The Simpsons and the Discovery Channel. She used to play on a women's soccer league team in California.Her favourite holiday destination is Hawaii, and her favourite cuisine is Italian.

 

Filmography

Mainstream Films

Year	Film	Language	Role	Notes
2004	The Girl Next Door	English		Cameo
2008	Pirate's Blood	English	Sunny
2010	The Virginity Hit	English	Sunny
2012	Jism 2	Hindi	Izna	Bollywood debut
2013	Shootout at Wadala	Hindi	Dancer	Item Number in song "Laila"
	Ragini MMS 2	Hindi	lead	Filming

Pornographic Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Penthouse Video: Virtual Harem	Sunny
2003	Deadly Stingers	Hot Tub Hussey
2004	Mystique Presents H20hh
	Busty Cops	Taluca Lake
	Lingerie: The Secret Art of Seduction	Sunny
2005	Centerfold Fetish
	Sunny
	Alabama Jones and the Busty Crusade	Queen of the Jungle
2006	Busty Cops 2	Taluca Lake	Sequel
	Virtual Vivid Girl Sunny Leone	Sunny Leone
	Sunny & Cher	Sunny
	The Female Gardener
2007	Debbie Does Dallas... Again	Corky
	Sunny Loves Matt	Sunny
	It's Sunny in Brazil
	The Sunny Experiment
2008	The Other Side of Sunny
	Dark Side of the Sun
	Descent Into Bondage
	Costumed Damsels in Distress	Gypsy girl
	The House of Naked Captives
2009	Undress Me
	Deviance
	Naughty America 4 Her 6
	Sunny's Sluber Party	Sunny
	Sunny's Big Adventure
2010	Live Gonzo
	Shut Up and Fuck Me
	Sunny's Casting Couch: I Wanna Be a Pornstar
	All Sunny All the Time
	Sunny Leone Loves HD Porn
	Sunny Leone Loves HD Porn 2
	Girlfriends 2
	Hocus Pocus XXX	Townsfolk
	Gia: Portrait of a Porn Star	Gia
	Not Charlie's Angels XXX	Kelly
2011	Roleplay
	Sunny & the Suitcase	Sunny	Short
	Lies: Diary of an Escort
	Bang Van Blowout with Nick Swardson		Short
2012	Sunny Leone: Goddess
	Lesian Workout
	Sunny Leone: Erotica
	Home Alone
2013	Charlie's Girl: Georgia Jones

Television

Year	Serial	Role	Channel	Notes
2005	MTV Awards	Reporter	MTV India	First mainstream appearance
2007	Debbie Does Dallas	Herself	Showtime	Documentary
2008	My Bare Lady 2: Open for Business	Contestant	Fox Reality Channel
2008	Co-Ed Confidential	Stripper	Cinemax After Dark	three episodes
2011	Bigg Boss 5	Contestant	Colors	Evicted on Day 91

Other media appearances

Year	Production	Role	Type	Notes
2001	Livin' It Up	Dancer	Videoclip	song by Ja Rule
2007	Pocket Pool	Penthouse Pet	PlayStation Portable game

Awards and nominations

Year	Ceremony	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
2008	XBIZ	Web Babe of the Year		Won
2010	AVN	Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene		Won
		Web Starlet of the Year		Won
	F.A.M.E.	Favorite Breasts		Won
2012	XBIZ	Porn Star Site of the Year	SunnyLeone.com	Won
2013	AVN	Crossover Star of the Year		Won

 

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