![]() Grey modeled for Richard Kern as a part of Vice magazine's anti-fashion layout and appeared in his book and in the three-part VBS.tv program Shot by Kern. Grey has modeled for various clients, including Max Azria's line Manoukian, American Apparel, and Flaunt. She was also profiled in the December 2008 Rolling Stone magazine and appeared twice in Playboy, in a December 2009 pictorial and as the cover feature in October 2010. Grey was named Penthouse 's Pet of the Month for July 2007 and was photographed by fashion photographer Terry Richardson. Grey directed the films Birthday Party and The Seduction (2009). The Guardian counted her as starring in 270 adult films. ![]() In 2011, CNBC named Grey as one of the 12 most popular stars in adult films and noted that her mainstream roles had kept interest in her earlier adult film work high and that several companies continued to release compilations from her films. Grey was the G4tv host in a two-hour documentary on Sexpo Australia for Attack of the Show! in 2009. Scott of The New York Times described Grey's pornography career as "distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it". Grey filmed her last adult film at age 21 in 2009 and announced her retirement from the industry on Facebook in April 2011. Grey also appeared in Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, which won in 15 categories at the 26th AVN Awards ceremony in 2009, making it the most awarded film ever at the ceremony. In 2008, she became the youngest woman ever to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award In 2008 Grey announced that she would represent herself in the adult industry through her agency L.A. The show was also criticized for editing the interview to increase its dramatic value. There was speculation the show was heavily edited and had not included her defense of adult film as a career choice. In February 2007, Grey appeared on The Tyra Banks Show and discussed teenagers working in the sex industry. In December 2006, Grey was interviewed on the syndicated entertainment industry news program The Insider. Less than six months after entering the adult industry, Grey was featured in the November 2006 edition of Los Angeles where she was flagged as a potential major star, perhaps the next Jenna Jameson. Grey's first scene was with Rocco Siffredi for Fashionistas Safado: The Challenge by John Stagliano and helped Grey quickly make a name for herself in the adult film industry after she asked Siffredi to punch her in the stomach during the scene, an act she later stated was improvised. Her surname either came from Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray or, alternatively, was inspired by how the Kinsey scale, grades homosexual and heterosexual attraction as a continuum, a "scale of grey". The name 'Sasha' was taken from Sascha Konietzko of the band KMFDM. She initially considered calling herself Anna Karina, after the French New Wave actress of the same name, before choosing Sasha Grey. In May 2006, Grey moved to Los Angeles, California, and performed in hardcore pornography. She bussed tables at a Black Angus steakhouse until March 2006 and saved $7,000 for a move to Los Angeles. She graduated a year early at the age of 17, and in late 2005, she attended Sacramento City College and took classes in film, dance, and acting. Grey attended four high schools, including Highlands High in North Highlands, and was unhappy at each. She was raised as an adherent of Catholicism. Grey's parents divorced before she started middle school and she was subsequently raised by her mother, who remarried in 2000. Her mother is of English, Irish, and Polish descent. Her father was a Greek-American who worked as a mechanic and died in June 2015. Grey was born in North Highlands, California, into a working-class family. She is the author of The Juliette Society trilogy of novels and also writes, directs, and co-produces films and music videos. ![]() Grey was a co-founder, singer, and writer of aTelecine, an industrial music band. In 2011, she played a fictionalized version of herself in the HBO comedy-drama series Entourage. In 2023, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.Īfter her 2009 feature film debut as the lead in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, she starred in independent films including Open Windows, the Canadian black comedy horror film Smash Cut and the horror film Would You Rather. Grey began her acting career in the pornographic film industry, winning 15 awards for her work between 20, including the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2008. Marina Ann Hantzis (born March 14, 1988), known professionally as Sasha Grey, is an American actress, model, writer, musician, and former pornographic film actress. ![]()
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