Remy LaCroix (born June 26, 1988, in
San Francisco, California
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) is an American
pornographic actress
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. She won the 2013
AVN Award
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for Best New Starlet and the 2014 AVN Award for
Best Actress
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.
Early life
Before entering the adult entertainment industry, LaCroix was a specialty dancer for several music festivals and
Burning Man. Her performances included
fire dancing
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,
aerial silks
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and
hula-hooping.
[Tod Hunter, Steve Javors, Mark Kernes, and Eric Dro, Peter Warren, "Freshen Up!", '' AVN'', vol. 29/no. 6, issue 355, June 2012, pp. 46–51.]
Career
LaCroix entered the adult film industry in December 2011, with a
gang bang scene for
Kink.com
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,
which was discussed in the
James Franco
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produced documentary ''
Kink
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Common uses
* Kink (sexuality), a colloquial term for non-normative sexual behavior
* Kink, a curvature, bend, or twist
Geography
* Kink, Iran, a village in Iran
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''. She worked for a period of six months before announcing that she was leaving porn.
Citing burnout, she continued to honor previous commitments, worked for the talent department at Kink.com, and promoted her unreleased movies, eventually returning to shooting in November 2012.
In 2013, ''
LA Weekly
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'' ranked her tenth on their list of ’10 Porn Stars Who Could Be the Next
Jenna Jameson
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’.
[ She was also placed on ]CNBC
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's yearly list ’The Dirty Dozen: Porn's Most Popular Stars’ in 2013[ and 2014.
In December 2014, it was announced that Remy LaCroix was signed as a contract star with ArchAngel Productions,] but less than three months into her contract she terminated her relationship with the production company.
In 2016, LaCroix was a judge on the web-based reality show
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'' The Sex Factor'', which is a pornographic version of ''The X Factor
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''.
She retired from professional shooting in 2016 due to pregnancy, but in 2020, she announced her return to the porn industry
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. Her comeback scene, for the Bellesa
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studio, was shot in July 2022 released in September 2022.
Awards
* 2013: AVN Award – Best New Starlet
* 2013: AVN Award – Best Tease Performance – ''Remy'' (with Lexi Belle)
* 2013: XBIZ Award
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– Best Actress—Couples-Themed Release – ''Torn''
* 2013: XRCO Award
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– New Starlet
* 2014: AVN Award – Best Actress – ''The Temptation of Eve''
* 2014: AVN Award – Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene – ''Girl Fever'' (with Riley Reid
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)[
* 2014: AVN Award – Best Three-Way Sex Scene (Girl/Girl/Boy) – ''Remy 2'' (with ]Manuel Ferrara
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One of the leading actors in the porn industry, Ferrara has won over 64 adult industry awards including six AVN Award ...
and Riley Reid)[
* 2014: NightMoves Award – Best Female Performer (Editor's Choice)
* 2014: XBIZ Award – Best Actress—Feature Movie – ''The Temptation of Eve''
* 2014: XRCO Award – Best Actress – ''The Temptation of Eve'']
* 2014: XRCO Award – Female Performer of the Year[
* 2015: AVN Award – Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene – ''Gabi Gets Girls'' (with Gabriella Paltrova)]
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1988 births
Actresses from San Francisco
American pornographic film actresses
Living people
Pornographic film actors from California
21st-century American women