Sunny Leone (born
Karenjit Kaur Vohra;
Early life
Leone was born in Sarnia , Ontario 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 Lake Forest , California
Career
Before working in the porn industry, she first worked at a
German bakery, a Jiffy Lube, and later a tax and retirement firm.
Leone at the 2002 Adult Entertainment Expo, one of her
earliest promotional appearances
While studying to be a pediatric nurse in Orange
County
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.[29] 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. That summer she also
received breast augmentation, 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. 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.
Leone at Vivid booth during the 2008 AVN Adult Entertainment
Expo in Las Vegas
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. 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. 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. 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.
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.
Sunny Leone and husband Daniel Weber arriving in India
to promote 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
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.
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.
Mainstream appearances
Leone's first mainstream appearance was in 2005, when she
was a red carpet reporter for the MTV Awards on MTV India. She has also had a
cameo in the film The Girl Next Door, performed in Ja Rule's video Livin' It Up
and a video for Kidd Skilly. Other credits include E!'s "Wild On!" and
the Sundance Film Festival's 'After Dark'. Leone was a contestant in the second
season of the Fox reality show My Bare Lady 2: Open for Business, in which a
group of adult actresses were given classes and training on how to pitch
investment ideas and competed for success in the business world. In addition to
filming her scene for Debbie Does Dallas in 2007, Leone was also part of a
Showtime documentary of the same name detailing the production of the movie and
the personal lives of its stars.
She has indicated that for the right price she would
seriously consider a career in Bollywood. She has been courted by Indian
directors in the past but has felt uncomfortable with the roles that she would
have played. Director Mohit Suri reportedly asked Leone to play the lead role
in his film Kalyug, but instead cast Deepal Shaw as he could not afford Leone's
$1 million acting fee. She has mentioned that Aamir Khan is her favorite
Bollywood actor, and that over 60% of her fans are from South Asia.
In 2008, Leone announced that she would be starring in a mainstream
action adventure movie titled Pirates Blood, which was shot in Oman .
The shooting was completed in two weeks and was to be released in winter 2008. Leone
also landed a role in Middle Men, producer Chris Mallick's indie feature about
the birth of the online porn industry set for wide theatrical release in 2009.
She appeared in the film The Virginity Hit playing a version
of herself, where she is hired to take the virginity of the lead character.
Leone has made appearances at events such as the 2002 SEMA
International Auto Salon, the 2002 Extreme Autofest Pomona and the 2006 World
Series of Poker in Las Vegas . Sunny
has also been the hostess at events in clubs like the Mansion in Miami and the
Highlands in Hollywood.
In 2005, she was mentioned in Forbes magazine for a story on
Vivid Entertainment. Leone has also been featured in mainstream publications
like FHM, Front and Jane magazine. In 2007, along with the other Vivid Girls,
she was seen in a 48' high holiday Billboard in Times Square at W. 48th Street
and Seventh Avenue.[86] Leone is also one of the Penthouse Pets who appears in
the PlayStation Portable game Pocket Pool. She was also featured in a coffee
table book titled Naked Ambition: An R Rated Look at an X Rated Industry by
Micheal Grecco.
In 2004, she was part of "No More Bush Girls", in
which she and several other popular adult actresses shaved off their pubic hair
in protest of the Bush presidency.[88] In May 2008, she shot a promotional
video for Declare Yourself, a nonprofit, nonpartisan voter registration
campaign targeting 18-to-29-year-olds. She indicated that Barack Obama would be
her choice in the 2008 U.S. election, primarily because she felt he was more
business friendly to the adult industry than his opponent John McCain. She also
released a public service announcement on behalf of the ASACP, reminding adult
webmasters to protect their sites from children by having an RTA label on it.
Leone has a strong interest in health and fitness, and has
been featured in several mainstream fitness publications. Leone has modelled
fitness clothing for the sports brand Fantasy Fitness and shared that she keeps
her body in shape by working out as much as she can despite her busy schedule and
as quoted in Men's Fitness magazine, "I try to eat very healthy – lots of
vegetables, drinking my milk every day."
In 2013, Leone posed for a PETA ad campaign, encouraging dog
and cat owners to have their pets spayed and neutered.
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