Sunny Leone Biography



Sunny Leone
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Sunny Leone
Birthdate: May 13, 1981 (1981-05-13) (age 27)
Birth location: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada1
Birth name: Karen Malhotra2
Measurements: 34C-24-341 in
(86C-61-86 cm)
Height: 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)1
Weight: 110 lb (50 kg/7.9 st)1
Shoe size: 6.53
Eye color: Brown
Hair color: Black
Skin color: Olive
Ethnicity: Indian
No. of films: 11 AFDB
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Sunny Leone (born Karen Malhotra2 on May 13, 1981) is an award winning Indian Canadian pornographic actress and former Penthouse Pet of the Year. She is a Vivid Girl and one of the few actresses of Indian origin in the pornography industry. She has said that Sunny is her real name and Leone was picked by Bob Guccione, former owner of Penthouse magazine.4

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Early life

Sunny was born in Canada to parents who immigrated from India. Leone's father was born in Tibet and raised in Delhi, while her mother (who passed away in 20085) was from a small town called Nahan in Himachal Pradesh.6 As a young girl, she was very athletic and played street hockey with the boys,1 enjoyed ice skating on a nearby frozen lake and drinking hot chocolate in front of a fire after playing in the snow all day.7

Despite being raised Sikh, her parents enrolled her in a Catholic school, where she had her first kiss at 11, lost her virginity (to a basketball player at another school8) at 17,6 and found out she was bisexual at 18.9 When she was 15, her family received their green card6 and migrated to the United States.They first moved to Fort Gratiot, Michigan, then to Lake Forest, California8 before finally settling down in Orange County, California fulfilling a dream of her grandparents that all of them be together in one place.2 She graduated from high school in 1999 and proceeded to enroll in college.

Career

Leone at the 2005 AVN Awards

Before working in the entertainment industry, she first worked at a German bakery,10 a Jiffy Lube,8 and later a tax and retirement firm.3

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.6 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 graced the pages of other magazines including Cheri,11 Mystique Magazine,12 High Society, Swank, AVN Online, Leg World, Club International and Lowrider,1314 while her online credits include ModFX Models,15 Suze Randall16 and Mac & Bumble.17

In 2003, she was declared the Penthouse Pet of the Year and also stared in the video Penthouse Pets in Paradise alongside Tera Patrick and Kyla Cole. In addition to her print work, she had also done pantyhose modelling with Ed Fox and Playtime Videos.In 2005 Adam & Eve appointed her as their West Coast Internet Sales Representative.18

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.1 Her first movie released was titled Sunny19 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.20 Taking only four days to film,10 the movie won her first AVN award (Best Interactive DVD) and has sold 15,00021 copies to date. She followed this with Sunny loves Cher, which featured her first on-screen female ejaculation.

January 2007 saw the release of The Female Gardener, in which she starred alongside Daisy Marie and Mikayla. In March she performed a scene in the remake of Debbie Does Dallas ... Again. Leone's last two movies under her contract with Vivid were It's Sunny in Brazil, which was filmed in Brazil.22 and The Sunny Experiement also staring Monique Alexander and Brea Lynn.23 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 fiance, Matt Erikson.24 That summer she also received breast augmentation,25) and shot her first movie under the new contract titled Sunny Loves Matt. The movie was released in March 2008. Her followup movie, The Other Side of Sunny,26 was released in October 2008, and once again featured Sunny performing with Erikson, but for the last time.

In January 2008, Leone revealed that she was no longer engaged to Erikson, and had done scenes with other actors, most notably Tommy Gunn, Charles Dera, James Deen,27 and Voodoo.28 The movies that have been filmed but yet to be released as of November 2008 are Sunny Extreme, Sunny's Dream and Vivid Red.29

Leone has also built a sizable online presence with her official website, sunnyleone.com, along with affiliate sites sunnysmoney.com and sunnysfriends.com. She has managed to leverage her online popularity by striking deals with firms like PPPcard,30 AdultPokerParty.com,31 Brickhouse,32 Flirt4Free,33 Totemcash34 and Imlive35 to sell and distribute her content over the internet and other media. Her websites and business interests are run under her banner company Leone L.L.C.

In addition to her film career, Leone has been part of the Vivid Comedy Tour,36 and has modeled for the Vivid Footwear collection.37 Leone has also participated in events like the Vivid/Club Jenna Lingerie Bowl38 and Vivid's Hot Rod Night.39 Doc Johnson launched a pocket pal in 2006 molded to her vagina,40 and in 2008 released the Sunny Leone Exciter vibrator.41 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.42

Leone was voted #13 (up from #41 in 2007,43) on Genesis magazine's "Top 100 Porn stars" list,44 #34 on Desiclubs.com's Top 50 Coolest Desis of 2004,45 and one of the "40 under 40" ranking on AVN Online Magazine.46

In March 2008, Leone was the Danni.com Girl of the Month. In August of that same year, she announced the launch of her own studio, Sunlust Pictures, with Daniel Weber as her partner.47 With her new venture Leone plans to write, direct and create her own brand of adult movies with Vivid Entertainment as her distributor.27 The first release from the new company is scheduled for January 1, 2009.48 She also indicated that she has plans to launch her own line of lingerie and other Sunny-branded products including a diamond jewelry line.27

In September 2008, Sunny agreed to work with Richard Menon, the "Indian Playboy", to star in erotic films to be made exclusively for the Indian subcontinent.49

In October 2008, citing greater control of her schedule and appearances, Leone left her long-standing talent agency L.A. Direct with the intention of representing herself for future promotions.48 Although the official statement claimed that Leone parted ways with L.A. Direct on amicable terms, reports surfaced that the agency found Leone's new manager difficult to work with, and was straining the relationship between the actress and L.A. Direct.50 She is currently represented by Gold Star Modeling and her publicist is April Storm of Versatile Media Group.

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.51 Other credits include E!'s "Wild On!" and the Sundance Film Festival's 'After Dark.'52

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 had three appearances on The Howard Stern show, most recently in 2008, where she appeared alongside Joanna Angel, and rode a sybian.53

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 2008.5455 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 2009.56

In 2004, she was part of "No More Bush Girls", in which, along with several other popular adult actresses, they shaved off their pubic hair in protest of the Bush presidency.57 In May 2008, she shot a promotional video for Declare Yourself -a nonprofit, nonpartisan voter registration campaign targeting 18-to-29-year-olds.58

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.59

In 2005, she was mentioned in Forbes magazine for a story on Vivid Entertainment.60

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.61

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.62 Leone is also one of the Penthouse Pets who appears in the Play Station 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.63

She has indicated that for the right price, she would seriously consider a career in Bollywood, and has been courted by Indian directors in the past, but has felt uncomfortable with the roles that she would have played.644 Director Mohit Suri is rumored to have asked Leone to play the lead role in his movie Kalyug, but instead cast Deepal Shaw as he could not afford her $1 million acting fee.65 She has mentioned that Aamir Khan is her favorite Bollywood Actor.66

Personal life

In June 2006, Leone became an American citizen,10 but has plans to be a dual citizen of Canada.67 Though bisexual, she has stated that she prefers men. In her spare time she enjoys abstract paintings, horse riding, reading, playing World of Warcraft,68 and enjoys watching The Simpsons and The Discovery Channel.69 She currently plays on a women's soccer league team in California.1 Her favorite holiday destination is Hawaii,10 and her favorite cuisine is Italian.69

In separate interviews, she has stated that in ten years time she would like to be married and have started a family, and probably retire from the business by the time she is 30.67 Sunny was engaged to Matt Erikson, a vice-president of marketing at Playboy Enterprises,70 but broke up in 2008. She is currently dating Daniel Weber, her business partner and guitarist for the band "The Spyderz", which is fronted by Evan Seinfeld. She currently resides in Hollywood, California with her cat and drives an Audi A5.8

See also

References

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