April Olsen

I met April Olsen on one of my very first scenes after arriving in Los Angeles, a Tushy shoot with her and Gianna Dior. I loved it, and of course we had to meet up again to make content. Honestly, she's one of the best actresses I've ever filmed with: an amazing experience and a really cool girl.

April Olsen is an American adult film performer, model and content creator born in January 1996 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her parents were both in the military, so she moved around as a child, living in Germany, Egypt and Japan before the family settled in Missouri. She spent most of her childhood there, in a rural town of 109 people.

She began shooting around 2019–2020, first as a camgirl and nude model and then on major studio sets. Her output grew fast: IAFD lists more than 400 performer credits for her, and Babepedia counts over 400 videos and hundreds of cover appearances. She worked across mainstream, all-girl and trans-inclusive productions. That range shows in her award history, which takes in boy/girl, lesbian, group and trans scene categories.

April was named CherryPimps Cherry of the Month in September 2021 and Twistys Treat of the Month in October 2023. At the AVN Awards she picked up a string of nominations between 2021 and 2024. These include Best New Starlet, Female Performer of the Year (2024), and scene categories such as Best Anal Sex Scene, Best Double Penetration Sex Scene and Best Gangbang Scene for April Olsen Knows Best. She also had Best Tag-Team Sex Scene and Best Foursome/Orgy nods for Mistress Maitland 2: Teeth. Further nominations came from the XRCO Awards, the Fleshbot Awards and the Transgender Erotica Awards (for Trans Fluid). In total she has about 25 industry nominations.

Origins and career. She took her stage name from the singer Angel Olsen, a fellow Missourian. In a 2022 interview with the UK's Daily Sport, she said she went to the emergency room after graduating from college without health insurance. To pay off the large hospital bill, she cammed on MyFreeCams for a few months before moving into studio work. She had promised herself "my best five years", and was surprised to be given scripted roles in features for Wicked, Adam & Eve and Pure Taboo ("The Nanny Incident"). Her showcase, April Knows Best, was directed by Jonni Darkko for Evil Angel. She named Angela White, Riley Reid and Asa Akira as inspirations. She said she does not drink, lifts weights and does yoga, has several dogs, and is a big fan of stand-up comedy and of Mike Judge's Idiocracy and King of the Hill.

Retirement. In October 2023 the Daily Star, quoting her appearance on Holly Randall's podcast, reported that she had left the industry after about three years and around 100 films. Getting married "changed me", she said; her husband had joined her in some videos during the pandemic. "My quitting process started [the] second that I walked onto a set," she said. She added that she "was a bad porn star in a way, because I did keep it pretty clinical," and that what she would miss was "the ladies". She has since worked as an intimacy coordinator for mainstream film and television. Her Instagram passed a quarter of a million followers at its peak.