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Sunny Leone (Karen)
Actress & Former Porn star
Born on 13th May, 1981
Sunny Leone's presence is enough to entice people and grab their attention. With exotic looks and oozing plenty of sex appeal, Karenjit Kaur Vohra of Canadian origin rose to fame as Sunny Leone - A world famous porn star. Her journey as a porn star started when she decided to give modeling a try. With good photogenic features and high ambitions, modeling was a perfect gateway for Sunny. Things changed when she was introduced to a contact that specialized in adult entertainment. She then decided to give it a try by posing for the Penthouse magazine. She rose to fame when she was named as the Penthouse Pet of the Month for the issue of March 2001. Thus, a stunning brunette model was born who became the first performer of Indian descent in the adult film industry. Moreover, at just the tender age of eighteen, she entered the world of adult entertainment, pushed the boundaries, shed all her inhibitions and took the adult entertainment industry by a storm.
At the start of her pornographic career, she used to perform with ladies only as a lesbian star, where she even gave a first onscreen female ejaculation. To impress her male audience and to have the much desired effect, she underwent a breast implant surgery as well. Few years down the line, she finally agreed to perform with men but only with her fiance of that time, Matt Erikson. In the year 2008, Sunny went completely fearless and gave some of her best performances with different men. In her last movie ‘Goddess’ she even gave her first and only anal sex scene.
After being a part of the adult entertainment industry and earning a name, she was offered to be a part of the reality show Bigg Boss season 5. She got noticed by the Indian viewers and got searched on Google for her movies and videos. Slowly, she rose to fame in India and became one of the most talked names. Subsequently, she was offered a role in a Bollywood movie. The director of the movie, Pooja Bhatt chose her due to the nature and genre of the movie. Sunny accepted the offer to be seen in an 'erotic thriller' movie 'Jism 2', a sequel to India's first erotic thriller movie 'Jism'.
The success of the movie and the warm reception she received upon her arrival in India, made Sunny change her priorities. Thus, she chose to bid goodbye to being a porn star and took to mainstream entertainment. Many offers for acting in movies came her way which she readily accepted to make her name in the Bollywood industry. She was then seen in few more movies where she slowly made her mark in the mainstream entertainment industry and proved to be a promising actress to all of her critics. As a result, in the year 2013 she announced her retirement and bid goodbye to her career in the porn industry.
After bidding goodbye to the porn industry, she still wishes to entice people by making them dream about her. So the next option she decided apart from acting in Bollywood, is writing some teasing, bold and sexy romance fuelled stories. Yes, she has a book out, titled 'Sweet Dreams' available on the Juggernaut App. Along with that, Sunny has also tried her hands into the gaming industry by coming up with her game 'Teen Patti with Sunny Leone'. With her game, she has covered majority of people who has interests in films and movies, reading and finally gaming. Thus, it can be said that Sunny Leone is a bold, ferocious and a talented beauty and businesswoman.
Personal Details
Full Name: Karenjit Kaur Vohra
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 54 Kilograms
Body Measurements: 38-24-36
Spouse: Daniel Weber
Sibling: Sundeep Vohra
Early Life
Born in Sarnia, Ontario, to Sikh parents, Sunny Leone had wonderful surroundings to accompany her. Surrounded with beautiful trees along with the lovely Canadian winter, Sunny Leone grew up playing with the snow. She was accustomed with playing many games in the snowy climate. As a child, Sunny was athletic and had varied interests such as sports, singing and dancing. Just when she was thirteen years of age, she along with her parents shifted to California and settled there. She found it a bit difficult to settle there but eventually got habituated to her new surroundings.
Sunny Leone’s craving to learn more about sexuality made her lose her virginity when she was just sixteen. Two years later, she discovered about her bisexuality. And no sooner, she decided to have a career in adult entertainment industry and thus Sunny Leone achieved her identity.
Filmography & Acting Career
Sunny Leone has done a string of jobs before setting her foot in the adult entertainment industry. She worked at a German bakery, then at Jiffy Lube and later at a tax and retirement firm. A friend of Sunny Leone who was an exotic dancer introduced her to an agent, who further introduced her to a photographer for Penthouse magazine. It is from here that Sunny's professional career as a Porn Star commenced.
Sunny started with posing for the Penthouse magazine and in the year 2001, she was named as the 'Penthouse Pet of the Month' for the month of March. She followed it by appearing in the Holiday 2001 edition of Hustler magazine as 'Hustler Honey'. She was then seen in a flurry of magazines such as High Society, Swank, AVN Online, Leg World, Club International and many more. Along with these, Sunny Leone has also shot exclusively for online websites and publications for Suze Randall, Ken Marcus, Mac & Bumble and ModFX Models.
While working with different magazines and publications, she continued posing for the Penthouse magazine and in the year 2003, she was named as the 'Penthouse Pet of the Year'. Later, she starred in the Penthouse video 'Penthouse Pets in Paradise' along with two other Penthouse pets, Tera Patrick and Kyla Cole. Gaining prominence day by day, Adam & Eve, a conglomerate who is into producing pornographic films and selling sex toys appointed Sunny as their west coast internet sales representative.
With Sunny improving in her art day by day, she soon landed a bigger deal with Vivid Entertainment. She signed a three year contract which pushed her into the world of hardcore pornography. She willingly accepted it but, with a condition that she will only do lesbian scenes. Her first movie titled 'Sunny' was released in the year 2005. Subsequently, Sunny's first interactive title 'Virtual Vivid Girl Sunny Leone' came out and she followed it with 'Sunny Loves Cher' and 'The Female Gardner'. Sunny experimented with squirting in 'Sunny Loves Cher' and that is the time when she started to experiment in her movies.
Sunny's last two movies for Vivid Entertainment were 'It's Sunny in Brazil' and 'The Sunny Experiment'. She re-signed her contract with Vivid Entertainment in 2007 and for the first time agreed to perform with men. However, she chose to perform only with her fiancé, Matt Erikson. Sunny then went for breast augmentation to give her an edge and to enhance her overall look. Post that, she was seen in 'Sunny Loves Matt' which won her accolades as well as she was one of the choice for the Female Performer of the Year. Her next was 'The Other Side of Sunny' with Matt and her last with him as they chose to split.
She then started performing with other male actors and in the year 2009 came her movie 'Sunny B/G Adventure' where she was seen performing with other actors. Sunny's final movie under the contract was 'Undress Me' where she performed exclusively with Daniel Webber.
Later in the year 2009, she along with Daniel Webber launched their first studio, 'Sunlust Pictures'. She had elaborate plans of writing and directing her own adult movies. 'The Dark Side of the Sun' became her first home production which released in the year 2009 and distributed by Vivid Entertainment. In the next four years, she came up with four movies under her banner. The movie 'Goddess' which came out in the year 2012 featured her as an actor performing anal sex for the very first time.
Sunny then showed her business acumen by striking deals with many other distribution companies to sell and distribute her content especially on the internet. Many companies started coming forward to leverage Sunny's growing popularity such as Doc Johnson. Sunny has also been a part of Vivid Comedy Tour and has also modeled for their footwear collection, 'Vivid Footwear Collection'.
Hollywood Movies
Sunny Leone has acted in three Hollywood movies so far:
The Girl Next Door in the year 2004 where she played a cameo role
Pirate's Blood in the year 2008
The Virginity Hit in the year 2010
Bollywood Movies
Sunny Leone did quite a few Bollywood movies since her debut in the movie 2012. Apart from appearing in the lead, she did cameo roles and performed for special songs in the movies. In majority, she has appeared in movies that are high on sexual content and 'A' rated by the censor board. She made her Bollywood debut in the year 2012 in 'Jism 2'. Famous for her image as a porn star, many people flocked the theatres only to officially watch her on-screen and enjoy.
In the following two years, Sunny did three more movies, 'Jackpot', 'Ragini MMS 2' and Hate Story 2'. Each of these movies were high on sexual content, especially the latter two. People were eagerly waiting to see her scorch the screen with her bold act and performance in 'Ragini MMS 2'. Along with that, her song 'Pink Lips' in the movie 'Hate Story 2' became one of the chartbusters. In the year 2014 itself, she made her Tamil debut by appearing for a special song sequence in the movie 'Vadacurry'. Later in the year, she also made her Telugu debut by appearing in the movie 'Current Theega'.
In the year 2015, she made her Kannada debut by appearing for a song sequence in the movie 'DK'. In the same year, she was seen in the movie 'Ek Paheli Leela' and 'Kuch Kuch Locha Hai' in a lead role. She was also seen in a Kannada movie 'Luv U Alia' for a special appearance in a song.
In the year 2016, Sunny already has charmed us with two movies 'Mastizaade' and 'One Night Stand'. The former was an all out sex comedy targeted towards adults whereas the latter was a movie which had a bit of a strong role for her. Although, her movies and her roles are not known to be meaty enough, she seems to be doing a good job by being the eye candy in most of the movies she has done so far.
Upcoming Movies: Beiimaan Love, Tina & Lolo, Raees (special appearance)
Biggest Hit Movies:
Jism 2
Ragini MMS 2
Mastizaade
One Night Stand
Hit Songs:
Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse from the movie 'Jackpot'
Saiyyan Superstar from the movie 'Ek Paheli Leela'
Chaar Botal Vodka from movie 'Ragini MMS 2'
Baby Doll from movie 'Ragini MMS 2'
Pink Lips from movie 'Hate Story 2'
Rom Rom Romantic from movie 'Mastizaade'
Awards
Sunny Leone's mainstream entertainment career is just five years old, starting in the year 2012. In such a short span, Sunny has established herself in Bollywood and has worked with many newcomers. She has made a mark for herself in the industry without any support from peers. However, she has not won a single award; blame it on the type of movies she has done. But, when it comes to her previous career as a porn star, she has many accolades in front of her name. They are:
Penthouse Pet of the Year in the year 2003
Web Babe of the Year awarded by XBIZ in the year 2008
Best All Girl Group Sex Scene awarded by AVN in the year 2010 for her work in Deviance
Web Starlet of the Year awarded by AVN in the year 2010
Favourite Breasts awarded by F.A.M.E in the year 2010
Porn Star Site of The Year (sunnyleone.com) awarded by XBIZ in the year 2012
Crossover Star of The Year awarded by AVN in the year 2013
Controversies
Coming from a different and bold background, it was difficult for people to accept Sunny in Bollywood mainstream movies. However, she ignored all that and started working in Bollywood. But some of her movies and her roles in them created a hue and cry resulting in controversies. Apart from that, there were many other times when Sunny Leone was embroiled in controversy, directly or indirectly. Some of them are:
Ragini MMS 2 kiss controversy - The scene between Sunny Leone and Sandhya Mridul caused a lot of stir, as it involved a steamy kissing scene between them. Trouble got mounted when a religious activist group protested with sloganeering against Sunny Leone.
Flip-flop by Kapil Sharma – Comedian Kapil Sharma completely refused to have Sunny Leone on her show due to her past. He reasoned saying that his show is a family show. But, later on Sunny was seen on his show along with Ekta Kapoor for the promotion of her movie 'Ragini MMS 2'.
Twitter War with Kamaal R Khan – Kamaal R Khan is known for his twitter fights if not about anything else. Sunny Leone got a taste of his words when he tweeted something which made Sunny feel offended. She immediately filed a police complaint with Cyber Crime Investigation Cell of Mumbai police.
PIL against 'Jism 2' – A PIL against her movie 'Jism 2' to stay the release of the movie was filed by a religious group.
Other Information
Owns:
Production house - Sunlust Pictures – Co-owns with her husband Daniel
Her own line of perfume - Lust by Sunny Leone
Brand Ambassador:
Coming from an adult entertainment background and putting a first step in the mainstream entertainment industry, Sunny Leone has become the darling of the entertainment industry. With her colourful past, she has become a first choice for many brands as their ambassadors and endorsers. Some of the brands are:
Addiction Deodorants
Chaze mobile phones
Gold Fogg
imbesharam.com
Manforce condom
Contribution in social causes:
Apart from being active in her adult career and now in Bollywood industry, Sunny has always been active towards social causes. Some of the social causes for which she has been a part of are:
Rock 'n' Roll Los Angeles Half-Marathon to raise money for the American Cancer Society
PeTA- where she has done an ad for them
The anti-smoking campaign where she did a short video promoting the campaign
‘Aaj Ki Naari' campaign to support gender equality
TV Shows:
Haunted Weekends with Sunny Leone - As a host
Splitsvilla – Season 7, 8 & 9 – As a host
Official Social Accounts:
Twitter - @SunnyLeone
Facebook -
https://www.facebook.com/sunnyleone/
Instagram - @sunnyleone
Official Website:
www.sunnyleone.com
Picture and content sources:mobango.com