2016 AVN Best Actress Nominee

Remy LaCroix was an amateur specialty dancer (“Not like stripping—hula-hooping, fire dancing, aerial stuff at Burning Man and music festivals”) who was recruited by Kink.com, first as a solo performer and then for its BoundGangbang site. “That was my favorite website that I would watch on my own time, and they asked me to do it first,” she said. “I was totally excited, because in my fantasies to be in that situation would be awesome, and they were going to pay me, and they were going to film it. It went really well.”

Encouraged by the male talent in the scene—including Mr. Pete, Mark Davis and Ramon Nomar—she came from her native San Francisco to L.A. in February 2012 and applied her performance skills to having sex on camera in “maybe 50” scenes.

“What you’re doing is selling sex,” she said. “Of course you want it to feel great, but you’re selling it. You have to balance between being camera-aware and being camera-unaware. If it’s panning up to your face, do something interesting with your face and not your vagina. But don’t oversell it. It’s a fine line.”

She was featured in AVN's June 2012 Fresh issue, and at that time she already had three titles out from Evil Angel (including Jonni Darkko’s Angels of Debauchery 9 and Mike Adriano’s Anal Bombshells) and she was the centerpiece of an upcoming Elegant Angel release, Remy, which would go on to score four 2013 AVN Awards nominations, including one for the ceremony's newly-instituted Best Star Showcase honor.

Remy ultimately walked away from the 2013 awards show with two trophies: One for her electrifying hula-hoop tease performance in Remy and the other for the immensely prized honor of Best New Starlet. The following year, she would take Best Actress for her gripping performance in the New Sensations Erotic Stories feature The Temptation of Eve.

Follow Remy LaCroix on Twitter @Remymeow.