Briana Banks

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Briana Banks

Briana Banks at the 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo
Born Briana Bany[1]
(1978-05-21) May 21, 1978[2]
Munich, Germany
Other names Mirage
Ethnicity German/American
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[3]
Weight 110 lb (50 kg; 7.9 st)[2]
No. of adult films 287 (per IAFD)
Website
http://www.brianabanged.com/

Briana Banks (born Briana Bany;[1] May 21, 1978[2]) is a German-American pornographic actress and model.

Early life

Briana Bany was born in Munich, Bavaria to a German father and an American mother. They moved to Britain when she was aged four, then to the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley when she was seven.[4][5] Her father still lives in Germany. She moved out of her mother's house when she was 16, taking her 14-year-old sister with her.[6] She got custody of her sister when she turned 18.[4][6] She modeled as a teenager, including a cover of Teen magazine.[5] She held various other jobs before entering the adult industry; making pizza, clerk at an arts and crafts store, file clerk and secretary.[4]

Career

In 1999 she responded to a newspaper ad to do nude modeling for adult magazines. The photographer put her in a pornographic film.[4] Her first film was University Coeds 18, for Dane Entertainment, in which she performed opposite Brandon Iron.[4] She entered the industry under the name "Mirage", but began calling herself "Briana Banks" in 2000, after having the first of two breast enlargement operations.[7] Having had aspirations of being a supermodel, she chose the professional surname "Banks" after model Tyra Banks.[8] Her first appearance using the new name was in the film Decadent Whores 9. She was Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month in June 2001. The same year, she signed with Vivid Entertainment.[4]

Banks claims to have the longest legs in the business (36 in (91 cm) inseam).[7] She has a ribbon tattoo on her lower back. For several years her regular boyfriend was porn actor Bobby Vitale,[6][7] but they broke up in 2006.[9]

In 2002 Banks was one of the first porn actresses to have an action figure made in her likeness, by Los Angeles-based Cyber F/X and Sota Toys.[10]

Banks was a contributing author in the 2004 book How To Have a XXX Sex Life: The Ultimate Vivid Guide (ISBN 9780060581480, from ReganBooks), in which she and other Vivid contract stars give advice and tips about sex, as well as relate anecdotes from their personal sex lives.

On October 13, 2006, Banks reportedly filed a federal lawsuit seeking more than US$75,000 in damages against Doc Johnson Enterprises, charging that they had created unauthorized products from molds of her genitals.[1]

Awards

  • Hot D'Or Cannes 2001 - Best American New Starlet
  • 2005 Exotic Dancer Award for Adult Movie Feature Entertainer of the Year[11]
  • AVN Awards for "Best Renting Title of the Year", and "Best Selling Title of the Year", Briana Loves Jenna, 2003
  • 2009 AVN Hall of Fame inductee[12]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Porn Star Briana Banks Sues Over Sex Toys", WTAE-TV, October 13, 2006. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Briana Banks". Penthouse. Retrieved 2007-08-11. 
  3. ↑ "Official website of Briana Banks: About Me". brianabanksreloaded.com. Retrieved 2010-10-05. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Brianna Banks Interviews", Cindi Loftus, Xcitement magazine, April 20, 2001, on Lukeisback.com, retrieved 2007-05-08.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Briana Banks: From Teen Magazine Cover Girl to Vivid Porn Queen", Mike Ramone, AVN Insider, 2002-05-17. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Briana Banks", interview by Melissa Monet, June 10, 2001, Pornstarempire.com. Retrieved 2007-05-08.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "In Tight with Briana Banks", TeraBabes interview, January 8, 2003. Retrieved May 6, 2007.
  8. ↑ She explained this in an interview included among the DVD extras for the documentary Thinking XXX.
  9. ↑ "An indepth interview with Vivid Star Briana Banks", Cindi Loftus, Pornstarz.org, March 2010.
  10. ↑ "Briana Banks: Action Figure", Carly Milne, AVN Insider, 2002-06-28. Retrieved May 6, 2007.
  11. ↑ http://www.edpublications.com/award-winners-2005
  12. ↑ "Nominations 2009 AVN Adult Movie Awards" (PDF). AVNAwards.com. 2008-11-25. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 

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