Sunny
Leone
Sunny Leone (
born Karenjit Kaur
Vohra; May 13, 1981) is a Canadian actress, businesswoman, model
and pornographic actress.
The Basics
- Pets: 2 dogs
- Hometown: Lives in LA and India
- Heritage: Indian
- Tattoos: No tatoos
- Smoking:No smoking
- Food: Italian
- Vacation Spot: Italy
- Music: All types
- Car: Mercedes
- Loves: Sexy pair of Hi Heels
Stats
- Weight 110 pounds
- Height: 5 foot 4 inched
- Bust: 36
- Waist: 24
- Hips: 34
- Shoe size: 7
- Eyes brown
- Hair: black
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.
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. She
graduated from high school in 1999 and enrolled in college.
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.
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 Webber.
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.
Her Career
Porn Films:
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 paediatric 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 (female
ejaculation ) , 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.
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
(Sex toy ) in 2006 moulded to her vagina and in 2008 released
the Sunny Leone Exciter vibrator.
Leone was voted number 13 (up from
number 41 in 2007) on Genesis magazine's "Top 100 Porn stars"
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.
In 2008, Leone announced that she would
be starring in a mainstream action adventure movie titled Pirates
Blood, which was shot in Oman. Leone also landed a role in Middle
Men, producer Chris Mallick's.
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. 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.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.
In 2011, she participated in the Indian
reality series Bigg Boss-5, 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 Sanjay Gupta
and Ekta Kapoor's film Shootout at Wadala.
Now days her flilm Ragini MMS 2 a
sequel of the Ragini MMS series is running in theaters and the song
“Baby doll me sone di” is spreading her boldness and sex appeal
all over the world.
Litmus test :
"Main ki dassaan apni ve
Ae chan karda hai tareefa
Ho mere
husn de kone... kone kone di"
Take a look of "husn de kone... kone kone di" :
Deepika Padukone, Malaika Arora Khan,
Bipasha Basu, Gauhaur Khan, Yami
Gautam, Vani Kapoor are a few amongst many
Bollywood divas who shimmered with their beauty on the green carpet
there.
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