- Born
- Birth nameAsa Takigami
- Nickname
- Asa
- Height5′ 1¾″ (1.57 m)
- Small (just under 5'2"), but buxom and shapely brunette Asa Akira was born Asa Takigami on January 3, 1985 in New York City. The only child of Japanese parents, Akira lived in Japan between the ages of six and thirteen. Asa attended Washington Irving High School in New York City from 2001 to 2002 and graduated high school in 2004. She was a regular on the radio show "Bubba the Love Sponge" for about a year.
Asa began performing in X-rated movies at age twenty in 2006. She has several tattoos. Akira has been nominated for several AVN Awards in such categories as Best Actress and Best New Starlet. She lives in Los Angeles, California.- IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- SpousesSean Moroney(2018 - present) (2 children)Toni Ribas(December 2012 - 2017) (divorced)
- ChildrenChild
- Frequently screams "Yeah" or the F-word multiple times in rapid succession during sex scenes
- Her parents are both Japanese immigrants.
- Daughter of famed photographer Kenji Takigami and business executive Taeko Takigami.
- Attended the United Nations International School, a private international school in Manhattan, NY, for her freshman year of high school. After being expelled due to poor grades, she attended Washington Irving High School, a public school in Gramercy Park, for her sophomore and junior years. She then transferred to the City-as-School High School, a learning-through-internship senior high school in Manhattan, and graduated after her senior year.
- Akira gave birth to a son who was born in February 2019 with her husband, Sean Moroney.
- TATTOOS: Birds back of neck; 5 flowers left shoulder; cherry blossoms left shoulder blade; rose right shoulder blade; star inside left forearm; "Mis / Concepcion" right ankle; "Antoni" lower left forearm (2013), skull on left arm, large rose on left forearm.
- I'm part of the new era of porn. We're feminists, very sex-positive people. We're not victims of rape, not drug addicts, we don't have any daddy issues.
- [on her distaste for the word "porn"] I think my distaste for the term also comes from the fact that so many people try to use their definition of the term against me. As if I'm the problem.
- I have sex for money, so I'm not a feminist? I portray sexual fantasies on screen for entertainment, so I'm not a feminist? I like to wear make-up and feel sexy, so I'm not a feminist? Fuck you, I'm a feminist.
- As cliché as it sounds, I really do look back at my life without any regrets, because everything I've done has brought me to this point. I can't imagine I'll feel differently about porn: it's brought me happiness, friends, maturity, money, and countless opportunities to do other things, like authoring two books and being a columnist for Men's Health! I consider myself extremely fortunate to have spent my adult life making a living doing something I love.
- There was a time in my life when I had a five-year plan: I was going to do porn for two years, save my money, and use it to open up a yoga studio. But it's now a decade later, and I barely even do yoga anymore.
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