Gianna Dior

The story with Gianna is basically that we met on a Tushy shoot and did an anal scene together. I honestly loved it. I know she's a very famous girl out of Los Angeles, and it took me quite a while to convince her to make content with me. The truth is we liked each other — it was just really hard to connect with her for the content. And in the end, when we got to the hotel, we fucked a lot.

Gianna Dior (born May 12, 1997) is an American adult film actress, director and glamour model. She won the 2020 AVN Award for Best New Starlet and the 2022 AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year, making her only the third performer to take Female Performer of the Year after winning Best New Starlet.

Early life. Dior grew up in Alabama in a military family. She has said the family ended up in Andalusia. Both of her parents served, and she is of Italian and Native American descent. She studied psychology at Auburn University while working part-time as a waitress at a sushi restaurant and as a receptionist at an eye clinic.

Career. She debuted in May 2018, at 21. Her first agent chose the stage name as a nod to her Italian roots. She was Penthouse Pet of the Month for September 2018 and Penthouse Pet of the Year for 2019, Cherry Pimps Cherry of the Month in March 2019, Twistys Treat of the Month in March 2020 and Hustler Honey in November 2022. In 2020 she filmed her first anal scene for Evil Angel with Markus Dupree. She has worked for Vixen, Blacked, Tushy, Deeper, Evil Angel, Jules Jordan, Mofos, Brazzers and Adult Time, and she starred in the acclaimed Deeper series Psychosexual (2021). In May 2024 she made her directing debut for Vixen Media Group with a scene featuring Liz Jordan and Jason Luv.

Awards. In 2020 she won Best New Starlet at both the AVN and XRCO Awards, plus AVN Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene (Unlocked, with Mick Blue), a double last achieved by Jenna Jameson in 1996. Her other AVN wins include: - 2021: Best Oral Sex Scene and Best Three-Way Sex Scene: G/G/B (Muse). - 2022: Female Performer of the Year, plus Best Anal, Best Boy/Girl and Best Tag-Team Sex Scene for Psychosexual. - 2023: Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene (Close Up) and Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene (Heat Wave). - 2024: Best Foursome/Orgy Sex Scene (Blacked Raw V70).

She has also been nominated for XBIZ, XRCO, XCritic and NightMoves awards.

Personal life. In March 2021 she was temporarily partially paralyzed when her body failed to absorb vitamin B12, damaging her spinal cord. She recovered after about a month of treatment.

Upbringing. Dior told XBIZ in 2021 that her whole family, "mom, dad and sister", served in the Air Force and that "somehow we ended up in Andalusia, Alabama". Discipline started early. At five she had to do ten push-ups every morning and make a military bed tight enough to bounce a penny off. She scored so well on the military aptitude test that recruiters pushed her to enlist, but she decided "this is not my personality". Her parents divorced when she was a baby, and she has seen psychologists since she was two or three. That early experience fed her lifelong fascination with how the mind works, and she went on to study forensic psychology. Over the years she also dreamed of becoming a chef or a dental hygienist, ran the floor at a crêpe restaurant and led the youth group at her local Catholic church.

Into the business. With two semesters left on her degree, in the spring of 2018 she matched on Tinder with an adult performer, who asked whether she had ever thought about porn. She soon flew to Miami for her first scene. "I did one scene, and I was like, 'This is fucking awesome.'" She never went back to college. While she was at the Reality Kings warehouse, Keiran Lee messaged her on Twitter and told her to call Mark Spiegler. Spiegler said she would have to move to Los Angeles, so she packed everything she owned into her Chevy Cruze and drove across the country. She has been a Spiegler Girl ever since and calls him "my number-one person", who became like a "dad" to her. In her first months she worked about 27 days a month. "Porn helped with my mental health," she said. "It made me feel enlightened and... empowered."

Psychosexual. In 2021 she starred in Psychosexual, Kayden Kross's cross-brand showcase for Vixen, Deeper, Tushy, Blacked and Blacked Raw. The story was built from Dior's own life and her love of Charles Bukowski and Ernest Hemingway. In its most intense scene, shot in a single take, she channelled the death of her brother in a car accident. "That was not even acting," she said. She owns most of Bukowski's books, including a signed copy of You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense. She made her directing debut with Vixen Media Group in May 2024.