Vanessa Sky

I met Vanessa Sky in Los Angeles around 2023. I'd wanted to film with her for a long time — I'd heard she was amazing in bed, and she was. When we finally shot, I loved it.

Vanessa Sky is an American adult film actress of Cuban/Hispanic heritage, born in March 1996 in Rapid City, South Dakota. IAFD lists her nationality as American and Cuban. She is a petite brunette with several tattoos, including roses on her right shoulder and a peacock feather on her wrist.

She entered the industry in 2017, at 21, and has since appeared in close to 180 videos for Brazzers and many other US studios. Her Brazzers profile describes a care-free, funny personality and a love of travel. She jokes that she ends up having drinks in a foreign country at least once a month.

Vanessa has a strong award record. She won the AVN Award for Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene in 2024 for Lesbian Threesomes, and won a Spank Bank Award in 2018. Her other nominations include AVN Best Leading Actress (2023, My Best Friend's Girl) and NightMoves Best Actress (2021). She was also nominated for Fleshbot Best Girl-Girl Scene, Urban X Orgasmic Oralist and XMA Best Sex Scene – Couples-Themed Release (2026), along with several further AVN scene nominations in 2024 and 2025.

She remains active.

Early life. Sky is a first-generation Cuban American; her parents were both born in Cuba. Her family moved to Miami a few weeks after she was born and she grew up there, where she says she was known in high school as "Crazy Vanessa". At 18, while visiting New York, she decided to stay and lived in the city for about a year, supporting herself as a dancer, stripper, bartender and cocktail waitress.

Entry into the industry. In New York she met Asa Akira at a book signing, and has said that reading Akira's memoir was the moment she realised performing was something she wanted to do. After moving back to Florida, a friend connected her with someone in the business, which led to her first scene, for the Bang Bus series in Miami, in 2017. She has recalled with amusement that the scene ended with her being put off the bus and left naked on the side of a Miami highway. She later relocated to Los Angeles, and early work included Kink, whose sex-party shoot she described as having about 400 people present, and Evil Angel.

After a nine-month break spent at home in Miami, she returned to Los Angeles and signed with Motley Models. She has also hosted her own podcast and radio show interviewing industry peers, and has said she is interested in a future legal career.