Willow Ryder

I met Willow Ryder in Miami — a very playful, very pretty girl with a great personality. We shot a content scene, then I ran into her again in Los Angeles and filmed a Tushy scene with her. Beautiful girl.

Willow Ryder is an American adult film actress born in June 1999 in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a Black performer, about 5 ft 4 in, who often changes her hair between black, brown and auburn. She has also been credited as Maggie Ryder and as Maggie on Exploited College Girls.

She started in 2022, at 23, and became one of the busiest newcomers in the industry. Babepedia, citing TheNude and data18, credits her with more than 340 videos and over 80 movies. She has worked for Vixen Media Group, Evil Angel, Elegant Angel, Jules Jordan, Brazzers, BangBros, Team Skeet, Naughty America, Nubiles, ATK, Girlfriend Films, Bellesa, Dredd and many more. Nubiles describes her as openly bisexual.

Willow has about 14 industry nominations. At the 2024 AVN Awards she was nominated for Best New Starlet, Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene (Secret Lesbian Diaries 14) and the fan-voted Favorite Female Porn Star. In 2025 she was nominated for AVN Female Performer of the Year, along with Best Gangbang Scene (Bang Bang The Gang's All Here), Best Foursome/Orgy Scene (Party In Willow's Room), Best Oral Sex Scene and Best Three-Way Sex Scene. She also had an XMA fan-award nomination for Female Performer of the Year, XRCO nominations for Orgasmic Oralist (2025 and 2026), and an Urban X nomination.

In January 2025 XBIZ reported on an EMMReport interview with Ryder covering her 11 award nominations, five of them at the XMAs, her recent work and her daily routine. The interviewer, Sherman, called her "authentic, humble" and said she "gives 120 percent with each performance". She has also guested on a podcast with Ameena Green about protecting personal and professional boundaries in sex work. There she discussed preparing for scenes, financial discipline, communication on set, self-care and keeping healthy boundaries with fans.

Early career. In a May 2022 interview, when she was 22 and very new to the industry, Ryder said she was also a licensed esthetician specialising in corrective skin care and waxing, and that she hoped within five years to own her own esthetics practice while still making content. Someone she knew with industry connections introduced her to her agency. The performer Reese Robbins gave her the name Willow, and she added Ryder "because I love riding". Her first shoot was for Exploited College Girls with Isiah Maxwell, and she said she felt completely comfortable. She named Blacked, for its cinematography, as a studio she wanted to work for, Tommy King as a co-star she wanted, and Valerica Steele as the performer she admired most, for being "so creative with her work... and unapologetically herself". Asked what she would change about the industry, she said she wanted people of colour to get the same amount of work as everyone else. She said she did not want people to assume she was "down to fuck all the time just because I make porn". Outside work she lifts weights, dances, listens to music and volunteers at animal shelters. Speaking to EMMReport in 2025, she said the conversation went well past the usual Q&A, and highlighted her nominations for her scenes with Ricky Johnson of Ricky's Room.