Lena Coxx

I met her in Barcelona in 2024. A pretty French-Italian girl who loves anal.

Lena Coxx is an Italian adult performer born in September 1997 in Sardinia. She spent part of her childhood in Naples, her father's hometown. Her path into the industry is unusual. At 18 she moved to Marseille, France, to study biology. After graduating she began a PhD and worked as a life-science researcher, and she has also been active as a science communicator.

At about 25 she left academia for adult entertainment. She has said she sees the move not as a rejection of science but as the pursuit of a career that offered her more freedom. Since her 2022 debut she has become one of the best-known Italian performers working in Europe. She is a petite brunette, about 5 ft 2 in.

Her mix of scientific background and adult work has drawn media curiosity, and in 2025 she was nominated for Rising Creator at the XBIZ Awards. She remains active in European productions and on her own platforms.

Science background. Coxx told Italy's PRN Podcast that she earned a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's in neurobiology in Marseille, and started a PhD there, working in what she called an excellent research team. Her thesis topic was the development of the hippocampus in the first years of life in mammals. She also lived in Modena as well as Naples before moving to France, and by 2026 had lived in Marseille for about ten years; because she works mainly in France and Eastern Europe, many viewers assume she is French. The turning point came in late 2022, after the pandemic: research satisfied her intellectually but did not make her happy day to day, and it demanded big sacrifices of time, mental energy and mobility. Among friends she had long joked that her plan B, if academia did not work out, would be porn. "Then I said to myself, well, in the end why not?"

Entering the industry. In a January 2023 interview she said she began thinking about it seriously in early 2022, joined platforms in May and shot her first scene on 14 July 2022. She said her experiences had been mostly very good, with respectful and professional crews, apart from one amateur scene, and that she was proud of her first trip to Budapest and of early work for big American productions. She objects to the stigma that performers have nothing else to offer: "I have a master's degree and I got into a PhD that I didn't finish... doing porn was my choice, I found it so empowering." She says her training shapes her work: it gave her a non-judgemental view of consensual sexual practices, since in studying animal behaviour "certain things are simply nature", and a much clearer awareness of how the body works and how to protect herself from risks. On the French podcast Virilos 3000, host Florian Nardone recalled talking with her about quantum physics and Sartre as well as sex.