Famous Celebrities Who Started Career As A Porn Star

1. Jackie Chan

Actor | Ngo si seoi

Hong Kong's cheeky, lovable and best-known film star, Jackie Chan endured many years of long, hard work and multiple injuries to establish international success after his start in Hong Kong's manic martial arts cinema industry.

Jackie was born Kong-sang Chan on April 7, 1954, on Hong Kong's famous ...

2. Cameron Diaz

Actress | Vanilla Sky

Cameron Diaz, an American actress, was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and a German mother. Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, ...

3. Sylvester Stallone

Actor | Rocky

Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.

Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...

4. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...

5. David Duchovny

Actor | The X Files

David William Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960, in New York City, New York, USA. His father, Amram Ducovny, was a writer and publicist who was from a family of Jewish immigrants (from Ukraine and Poland), and worked for the American Jewish Committee. His mother, Margaret (Miller), was a ...

6. Matt LeBlanc

Actor | Friends

Matt LeBlanc was born on 25 July 1967 in Newton, Massachussetts. His mother, Patricia, is of Italian origin, and worked as an office manager, and his father, Paul LeBlanc, who was from a French-Canadian family, was a mechanic. After graduating from high school, he spent some time as a photo model ...

7. Marilyn Monroe

Actress | Some Like It Hot

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, comedienne, singer, and model. Monroe is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. She became one of the world's most enduring iconic figures and is remembered both for her winsome embodiment of the Hollywood sex symbol and her tragic personal and ...

8. Helen Mirren

Actress | The Queen

Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...

9. Riley Steele

Actress | Piranha 3D

A California native, Riley Steele started out working at Starbucks and at a golf course snack bar. As fate would have it, she found her big break in the form of meeting porn star Jesse Jane at a signing for the sex parody Pirates (2005). Jesse advised her to enter the business, and shortly ...

10. Sasha Grey

Actress | The Girlfriend Experience

Sasha Grey first made her name as one of the most notorious adult film stars in recent history; but with a no regrets attitude, she moved on from her former career, in 2009 at age 21. She has gone on to star in HBO's Entourage, published NEÜ SEX a book of photographs, and she DJ's internationally. ...

11. Jesse Capelli

Actress | Not Another Teen Movie

Jesse Capelli was born on May 21, 1979 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Of Italian descent, Capelli was a tomboy growing up who participated in such athletic activities as swimming and gymnastics. Jesse first started modeling at age twelve. In 1998 Capelli moved to Los Angeles, California in...

12. Jenna Jameson

Actress | The Masseuse

Jenna Jameson was born and raised in Las Vegas by her father, and by the time she was 18 the bright lights were already drawing her in. She studied ballet, but it was stripping that started her on her road to superstardom. Dancing led to nude modeling, and by her 20th birthday she had appeared in ...

13. Aurora Snow

Actress | Superbad

The fourth child of her British and French parents, Aurora Snow was born Rebecca Claire Kensington on November 26, 1981, in Santa Maria, California, United States. When Rebecca was a toddler her parents divorced. Her mother remarried and Rebecca's new stepfather, Raymond Nordell, relocated the ...

14. Stormy Daniels

Actress | The 40 Year Old Virgin

Stormy Daniels was born on March 17, 1979 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005).

15. Linzi Drew

Actress | An American Werewolf in London

Linzi Drew-Honey is a former British movie/television actress, glamour model, adult actress, movie producer/director and writer. Linzi was born Lindsey Jayne Drew on 11th May 1958 in Bristol, U.K. She moved to London in her early 20's to fulfill her dream of being a model.

In the 1980's she appeared...

16. Kobe Tai

Actress | Very Bad Things

Although the ranks of Asian stars in the adult-film business has been growing, few have reached the status of Kobe Tai. She and Asia Carrera are probably the two most popular Asian women in western porn, and it's a toss-up as to which one would take the #1 spot. Of Chinese/Japanese extraction, she ...

17. Maria Ozawa

Actress | Nilalang

Maria Ozawa is a Japanese adult video actress. In Japan, she is referred to as an AV Idol. Her father is French-Canadian and her mother is Japanese but she was raised in Japan and speaks both English and Japanese. She began her career in adult videos in 2005 at the age of 19 and her exotic beauty ...

18. Perrey Reeves

Actress | Old School

Perrey Reeves was born in New York City and raised in the countryside of New Hampshire. Her parents, both academics, were from upper-class families. Her paternal grandfather, Hazard E. Reeves, was a sound pioneer who introduced magnetic stereophonic sound to films, and her maternal ...

19. Karen Lancaume

Actress | Baise-moi

Born Karen Bach outside of Lyons, France, Karen Lancaume came from a wealthy family. The bi-racial beauty (French father, Moroccan mother) married at 17 while she was attending college. Even though her husband was a disc jockey and she worked weekends at a nightclub to make ends meet, the couple ...

20. Dany Verissimo-Petit

Actress | Banlieue 13

Dany Verissimo-Petit is an edgy and talented young actress with an unusual background. Her recent runaway success in the play "D.A.F. Marquis de Sade" (2013), and a two-season run in the hit Canal Plus TV series Maison Close (currently being adapted by HBO), have led to her integration into a ...

21. Stacy Adams

Self | Der Watusi-Skandal

22. Summer Cummings

Actress | Fetish Fairy Tails Volume Five: The She Wolf and the Dirty Little Pigs

Buxom and shapely 5'5" brunette knockout Summer Cummings was born Lisa L. McVay on March 4, 1968 in Reno, Nevada. Summer began her career in the adult entertainment industry as a topless dancer at a local bar in her native Reno. Cummings then moved to San Francisco, California, where she did live ...

23. Texas Presley

Actress | Orgasmika

Texas Presley was born on July 22, 1981 in Texas, USA. She is an actress.

24. Lexington Steele

Actor | Lex Steele XXX 3

Lexington Steele was born on November 28, 1969 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and director.

25. April Flowers

Actress | A Man Apart

April Flowers was born on March 28, 1978 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. She is an actress, known for A Man Apart (2003).

26. Jerry Jewell

Actor | Meitantei Conan

Jerry Jewell was born on July 30, 1976 in McAlester, Oklahoma. He is an American actor, singer, and voice actor working for Funimation and OkraTron 5000. He has provided voices for a number of English versions of anime. If you've ever watched an anime, it's very likely you've heard his voice.

27. Shu Qi

Actress | The Transporter

Born in Taiwan, Qi Shu has won the prestigious Golden Horse Award in Taiwan (regarded as the East Asian Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress in 1998. She has also received a Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress in 2005. She appeared with Jackie Chan in the romantic comedy Gorgeous (1999) ("...

28. Chasey Lain

Actress | Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

One of the most classically beautiful women ever to appear in adult films, Chasey Lain has a winning smile, long light brown hair and a trim, dance-sculpted figure. She was working as a stripper in Florida and took note of the kinds of money porn actresses made when they appeared for short dancing ...

29. Jill Kelly

Actress | He Got Game

Jill Kelly was born on February 1, 1971 in Pomona, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for He Got Game (1998), Orgazmo (1997) and The Roller Blade Seven (1991). She was previously married to Corey Jordan, Julian and Cal Jammer.

30. Kristine DeBell

Actress | Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy

Kristine was raised on a small self-sufficient farm in upstate New York. As a young girl, she took ballet and studied voice. At 14, she began modeling for Macy's. During her freshman year of high school, Kristine auditioned for and won the part of Marta in the musical The Sound Of Music. The ...