1. Sasha Grey began her acting career in the pornographic film industry, winning 15 awards for her work between 2007 and 2010, including the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2008.
47 Facts About Sasha Grey
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Sasha Grey was a co-founder, singer, and writer of aTelecine, an industrial music band.
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Sasha Grey is the author of The Juliette Society trilogy of novels and writes, directs, and co-produces films and music videos.
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Sasha Grey was born in North Highlands, California, and grew up in Sacramento, in a working-class family.
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Sasha Grey's parents divorced before she started middle school and she was raised by her mother, who remarried in 2000.
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Sasha Grey attended four high schools, including Highlands High in North Highlands.
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Sasha Grey graduated a year early at the age of 17, and in late 2005, she attended Sacramento City College and took classes in film, dance, and acting.
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Sasha Grey bussed tables at a Black Angus steakhouse until March 2006 and saved $7,000 for a move to Los Angeles.
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Sasha Grey made her hardcore pornography debut shortly after her 18th birthday in 2006.
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Sasha Grey initially considered calling herself Anna Karina, after the French New Wave actress of the same name, before choosing Sasha Grey.
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The name 'Sasha Grey' was taken from Sascha Konietzko of the band KMFDM.
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Less than six months after entering the adult industry, Sasha Grey was featured in the November 2006 edition of Los Angeles magazine where she was flagged as a potential major star, perhaps the next Jenna Jameson.
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In December 2006, Sasha Grey was interviewed on the syndicated entertainment industry news program The Insider.
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Sasha Grey appeared in Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, which won in 15 categories at the 26th AVN Awards ceremony in 2009, making it the most awarded film ever at the ceremony.
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Sasha Grey filmed her last adult film at age 21 in 2009 and announced her retirement from the industry on Facebook in April 2011.
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Sasha Grey directed the films Birthday Party and The Seduction.
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Sasha Grey was named Penthouses Pet of the Month for July 2007 and was photographed by fashion photographer Terry Richardson.
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Sasha Grey was profiled in the December 2008 issue of Rolling Stone and appeared twice in Playboy, in a December 2009 pictorial and as the cover feature in October 2010.
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Sasha Grey has modeled for various clients, including Max Azria's line Manoukian, American Apparel, and Flaunt.
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Sasha Grey modeled for Richard Kern as a part of Vices anti-fashion layout and appeared in his book and in the three-part VBS.
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Sasha Grey appeared in Taschen's 25th anniversary reprint of Terry Richardson's book Terryworld and in his Wives, Wheels, Weapons, a companion book to James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning.
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Sasha Grey has modeled for artists James Jean, Zak Smith, Dave Naz, David Choe, and Frederic Poincelet, who created the artwork for her industrial music band aTelecine's.
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In 2010, Sasha Grey was one of four actors who appeared in Juliao Sarmento's video installation Leporello and was featured in the Richardson magazine A4.
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In director Steven Soderbergh's film The Girlfriend Experience, Sasha Grey played the lead role of Chelsea, an escort who is paid to act as her clients' girlfriend.
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Soderbergh cast Sasha Grey after reading her profile in Los Angeles magazine.
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Entertainment Weekly found Sasha Grey was "not so much a natural actress as a natural-born placid, affectless Barbie doll".
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Sasha Grey played a fictionalized version of herself in the seventh season of the HBO series Entourage as Vincent Chase's new girlfriend in a multi-episode arc.
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Sasha Grey played Raven in the thriller I Melt With You, directed by Mark Pellington, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26,2011.
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Sasha Grey then starred in the Indonesian film Shrouded Corpse Bathing While Hip-Shaking, which premiered on April 28,2011.
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Sasha Grey voiced the character Viola DeWynter in the 2011 video game Saints Row: The Third and reprised the role again in 2015 for Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell.
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In 2017, Sasha Grey and Danny Trejo starred in the arthouse thriller Black Licorice, which was directed by Frankie Latina and in 2009 Grey was a co-producer of Latina's Modus Operandi, starring Danny Trejo.
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Sasha Grey appeared in music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins' 2007 song "Superchrist", and for The Roots' 2008 song "Birthday Girl".
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In 2008, Sasha Grey began an industrial music collaboration called aTelecine with Pablo St Francis and the two later added Anthony D' Juan and Ian Cinnamon.
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In July 2013, it was announced that Sasha Grey had left the band.
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In 2012, Sasha Grey covered Nico for the X-TG album Desertshore.
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In 2016, Sasha Grey contributed to the Death in Vegas album Transmission.
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Since 2010, Sasha Grey has regularly performed as a DJ and has published some of her mixes on SoundCloud.
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Sasha Grey said she uses CDJs, USB-sticks, and SD cards when making her music.
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In 2020, Sasha Grey began hosting a show on VENN called Sasha Grey Area.
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Sasha Grey began streaming video game playthroughs on Twitch in the first half of 2020.
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Sasha Grey was in a long-term relationship with a photographer, Ian Cinnamon, who is 13 years her senior, but the couple split up in 2012.
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Sasha Grey is a professed movie buff, leading to her 2006 alias Anna Karina after the French-Danish film actress, and likes the work of Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni, French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, Danish Dogme 95 director Lars von Trier, New German Cinema filmmaker Werner Herzog, feminist filmmaker Catherine Breillat, and American filmmaker David Lynch.
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Sasha Grey described herself as a David Bowie fan and contributed to a French homage after he died in 2016.
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Sasha Grey collects vinyl records and her motto is Lotta continua.
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In 2010, in an interview with Maxim, Sasha Grey said her parents were not happy with her involvement in the adult film industry but that they were on good terms with her nonetheless; Sasha Grey's father died in 2015.
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In November 2011, Sasha Grey participated in a guest reading program at Emerson Elementary School in Compton, California.
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Sasha Grey supported Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries and supports Planned Parenthood.