Sunny Leone Height Weight Bra Size Age Biography Family Wiki Net Worth, Affairs, Marriage & much more. Karenjit Kaur Vohra (born May 13, 1981), known by her stage name Sunny Leone (/liˈoʊni/), is a model and an actress in the American and Indian film industries. She is a former pornographic actress.She was born in Canada to an Indian Sikh family. She has Canadian and American citizenship. Her pet name is Karen. She was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003, was a contract performer for Vivid Entertainment, and was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top porn stars in 2010.
She has played roles in independent mainstream events, films, and television series. Her first mainstream appearance was in 2005, when she worked as a red carpet reporter for the MTV Video Music Awards on MTV India. In 2011, she participated in the Indian reality television series Bigg Boss. She also has hosted the Indian reality show Splitsvilla.
In 2012, she made her Bollywood debut in Pooja Bhatt’s erotic thriller Jism 2 (2012) and shifted her focus to mainstream acting which was followed up with Jackpot (2013), Ragini MMS 2 (2014), Ek Paheli Leela (2015), Tera Intezaar (2017), and the Malayalam film Madhura Raja in 2019.
Apart from her acting career, she has been part of activism campaigns including the Rock ‘n’ Roll Los Angeles Half-Marathon to raise money for the American Cancer Society and has also posed for a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ad campaign with a rescued dog, encouraging pet owners to have their cats and dogs spayed and neutered.
Early life
Karenjit Kaur Vohra was born on May 13, 1981, in Sarnia, Ontario, to Sikh Indian Punjabi parents. As a young girl, she was a self-described tomboy,very athletic and played street hockey with the boys.
Although the family was Sikh, her parents enrolled her in Catholic schoolas it was felt to be unsafe for her to go to public school. When she was 13, her family moved to Fort Gratiot, Michigan, then to Lake Forest, California, a year later, fulfilling her grandparents’ dream that the family be together in one place. She had her first kiss at 11, lost her virginity at 16 with a basketball player, and discovered her bisexuality at 18.
Pornographic career
Before working in the porn industry, she worked at a German bakery, a Jiffy Lube store, and later a tax and retirement firm. She was also studying to become a nurse.
A black-haired woman wearing a yellow top and jeans sitting behind a table looking up at the camera.
Leone at the 2002 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, one of her earliest promotional appearances
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.
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.
Leone at AVN Awards 2006
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 Sunnyand 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, 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 being 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 Deenand Voodoo.
In 2009, Vivid released her only adult movie performing with multiple 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 Weber (he performed under the stage name Ariel King), who subsequently became her husband.
Leone at Exxxotica Expo, 2009, Miami
In August 2009, she announced the launch of her own studio, Sunlust Pictures, with Daniel Weber as her partner.With her new venture Leone announced her 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 began working with other studios and performers since 2009. She leveraged her online popularity by striking deals with firms like PPPcard, AdultPokerParty.com, Brickhouse, Flirt4Free,Totemcashand Imliveto 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 Bowland 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 blogwas 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.
In 2013, she announced her retirement from the adult industry stating “I am lucky that the audience is accepting me. I have come my way from there (porn industry). I don’t have any plans as of now to go back there.”
In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC’s 100 Women.The tech magazine Exhibit chose Leone for their cover girl of the October 2016 issue.
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Marriage and family
In July 2017, Leone and her husband Daniel Weber adopted their first child from Latur, a village in Maharashtra. The baby girl, whom they named Nisha Kaur Weber, was 21 months old at the time of adoption. Actress Sherlyn Chopra first confirmed the news by writing a congratulatory message on social media on July 20, 2017. “Never in my life did I think that I want to adopt a child. People doing such amazing work at the orphanage changed my mind,” Daniel Weber told Hindustan Times.
On March 4, 2018, Sunny Leone and her husband announced the birth of their twin boys, born through surrogacy. They named the boys Asher Singh Weber and Noah Singh Weber.
Leone lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She moved into their new house with husband Weber and children on Ganesh Chaturthi, which took place on September 13, 2018.
Filmography and awards of Sunny Leone
Bangladeshi films
| Year | Title | Role | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Bikkhov | Item girl in Chap Nishna | Bangla | Special appearance in the song |
Nepalese films
| Year | Title | Role | Language | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Password | Item girl in “Aajako Sham” | Nepali | Nepali debut |
Indian films
| Year | Title | Role | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Jism 2 | Izna | Hindi | Hindi film debut |
| Jackpot | Maya | Hindi | ||
| 2014 | Ragini MMS 2 | Sunny Leone | Hindi | |
| Vadacurry | Herself | Tamil | Tamil film debut, Special appearance in the song “Low Aana Lifeu” | |
| Hate Story 2 | Hindi | Special appearance in the song “Pink Lips” | ||
| Balwinder Singh Famous Ho Gaya | Hindi | Special appearance in the song “Shake That Booty” | ||
| Current Theega | Sunny | Telugu | Telugu film debut, cameo appearance | |
| 2015 | DK | Herself | Kannada | Kannada film debut, Special appearance in the song “Sesamma” |
| Ek Paheli Leela | Leela / Meera | Hindi | ||
| Kuch Kuch Locha Hai | Shanaya | Hindi | ||
| Luv U Alia | Herself | Kannada | Special appearance in the song “Kamakshi” | |
| Singh Is Bliing | Airline passenger | Hindi | Cameo appearance | |
| 2016 | Mastizaade | Laila Lele / Lily Lele | Hindi | |
| One Night Stand | Celina / Ambar Kapoor | Hindi | ||
| Beiimaan Love | Sunaina Verma | Hindi | ||
| Fuddu | Herself | Hindi | Special appearance in the song “Tu Zaroorat Nahi Tu Zaroori Hai” | |
| Dongari Ka Raja | Hindi | Special appearance in the song “Choli Blockbuster” | ||
| 2017 | Raees | Hindi | Special appearance in the song “Laila Main Laila” | |
| Noor | Hindi | Cameo appearance | ||
| Baadshaho | Hindi | Special appearance in song “Piya More” | ||
| Boyz | Marathi | Marathi film debut, Special appearance in song “Kuth Kuth Jayacha Honeymoon La” | ||
| Bhoomi | Hindi | Special appearance in song “Trippy Trippy” | ||
| Shrestha Bangali | Bengali | Bengali film debut, Special appearance in song “Chaap Nishna” | ||
| PSV Garuda Vega | Telugu | Special appearance in song “Deo Deo” | ||
| Tera Intezaar | Rounak | Hindi | ||
| 2019 | Jhootha Kahin Ka | Herself | Hindi | special appearance in song “Funk Love” |
| Arjun Patiala | Baby Narula | Hindi | 2 roles as it’s a film inside film | |
| Madhura Raja | Herself | Malayalam | Special appearance in item song “Moha Mundiri” | |
| Motichoor Chaknachoor | Hindi | Special appearance in song “Battiyan Bujhaado” | ||
| Rangeela | TBA | Malayalam | Malayalam film debut, Filming | |
| Veeramadevi | Veeramadevi | Tamil | Debut as an actress, Lead Role; Filming | |
| Shero | TBA | Lead Role; Filming | ||
| Oh My Ghost (OMG) | Sunny, “The Ghost” | Lead Role; Filming | ||
| Koka Kola | TBA | Hindi | Filming | |
| Helen | Naina | Filming | ||
| The Battle of Bhima Koregaon | TBA | Special appearance in song |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | AVN Awards | Best All-Girl Sex Scene – Video | Virtual Vivid Girl Sunny Leone | Nominated | |
| 2008 | XBIZ Award | Web Babe of the Year | Won | ||
| 2009 | Crossover Star of the Year | My Bare Lady 2 (with Brooke Haven, Casey Parker and Veronica Rayne) | Nominated | ||
| AVN Awards | Best All-Girl Couples Sex Scene | Sunny Loves Matt (with Anne Marie Rios) | Nominated | ||
| Best Couples Sex Scene | Sunny Loves Matt (with Matt Erickson) | Nominated | |||
| Best Tease Performance | Sunny Loves Matt | Nominated | |||
| Best Solo Sex Scene | The Sunny Experiment | Nominated | |||
| Female Performer of the Year | Nominated | ||||
| Jenna Jameson Crossover Star of the Year | My Bare Lady 2 (with Brooke Haven, Casey Parker and Veronica Rayne) | Nominated | |||
| 2010 | Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene | Deviance (with Eva Angelina, Teagan Presley and Alexis Texas) | Won | ||
| Web Starlet of the Year | Won | ||||
| Best All-Girl Couples Sex Scene | Sunny’s Slumber Party (with Jenna Haze) | Nominated | |||
| Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene | Sunny’s Slumber Party (with Monique Alexander, Alyssa Reece and Alexis Texas) | Nominated | |||
| F.A.M.E. Awards | Favorite Breasts | Won | |||
| 2011 | XRCO Awards | Mainstream Adult Media Favourite | Nominated | ||
| AVN Awards | Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene | Girlfriends 2 (with Ann Marie Rios, Hailie Vanderven and Sarah Vandella) | Nominated | ||
| Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene | Girlfriends 2 (with Miles Long, Hailie Vanderven, Ann Marie Rios and Sarah Vandella) | Nominated | |||
| Crossover Star of the Year | Nominated | ||||
| Best Actress | Gia: Portrait of a Porn Star | Nominated | |||
| Best Three-Way Sex Scene (G/G/B) | Sunny’s Big Adventure (with Daisy Marie and Voodoo) | Nominated | |||
| Best All-Girl 3-Way Sex Scene | Sunny’s Big Adventure (with Devi Emmerson and Karlie Montana) | Nominated | |||
| Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene | Hocus Pocus XXX (with Eva Angelina, Nikki Benz, Kiara Diane, Audrey Hollander and Madelyn Marie) | Nominated | |||
| Best All-Girl Couples Sex Scene | Gia: Portrait of a Porn Star (with Tori Black) | Nominated | |||
| 2012 | Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene | Roleplay (with Daisy Marie) | Nominated | ||
| Crossover Star of the Year | Nominated | ||||
| Best Solo Sex Scene | Lies: Diary of an Escort | Nominated | |||
| XBIZ Awards | Porn Star Site of the Year | sunnyleone.com | Won | ||
| 2013 | AVN Awards | Crossover Star of the Year (tied with James Deen) | Won | ||
| Best Tease Performance | Lesbian Workout (with Daisy Marie) | Nominated | |||
| Ghanta Awards | Worst Breakthrough | Jism 2 | Won | ||
| 2016 | Worst Actress | Ek Paheli Leela | Nominated | ||
| Kuch Kuch Locha Hai | Nominated |