Grey was the G4tv host in a two-hour documentary on Sexpo Australia for Attack of the Show! in 2009. Scott of The New York Times described Grey's pornography career as "distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it". Grey filmed her last adult film at age 21 in 2009 and announced her retirement from the industry on Facebook in April 2011. Grey also appeared in Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, which won in 15 categories at the 26th AVN Awards ceremony in 2009, making it the most awarded film ever at the ceremony. In 2008, she became the youngest woman ever to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award In 2008 Grey announced that she would represent herself in the adult industry through her agency L.A. The show was also criticized for editing the interview to increase its dramatic value. There was speculation the show was heavily edited and had not included her defense of adult film as a career choice. In February 2007, Grey appeared on The Tyra Banks Show and discussed teenagers working in the sex industry. In December 2006, Grey was interviewed on the syndicated entertainment industry news program The Insider. Less than six months after entering the adult industry, Grey was featured in the November 2006 edition of Los Angeles magazine where she was flagged as a potential major star, perhaps the next Jenna Jameson. Her surname either came from Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray or, alternatively, was inspired by how the Kinsey scale grades homosexual and heterosexual attraction as a continuum, a "scale of grey". The name 'Sasha' was taken from Sascha Konietzko of the band KMFDM. She initially considered calling herself Anna Karina, after the French New Wave actress of the same name, before choosing Sasha Grey. Grey made her hardcore pornography debut shortly after her 18th birthday in 2006. She bussed tables at a Black Angus steakhouse until March 2006 and saved $7,000 for a move to Los Angeles. She graduated a year early at the age of 17, and in late 2005, she attended Sacramento City College and took classes in film, dance, and acting. Grey attended four high schools, including Highlands High in North Highlands. She was raised as an adherent of Catholicism. Grey's parents divorced before she started middle school and she was subsequently raised by her mother, who remarried in 2000. Grey was born in North Highlands, California and grew up in Sacramento, in a working-class family. She is the author of The Juliette Society trilogy of novels and also writes, directs, and co-produces films and music videos. Grey was a co-founder, singer, and writer of aTelecine, an industrial music band. In 2011, she played a fictionalized version of herself in the HBO comedy-drama series Entourage. Īfter her 2009 feature film debut as the lead in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, Grey starred in independent films including Open Windows, the Canadian black comedy horror film Smash Cut and the horror film Would You Rather. In 2023, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame. She began her acting career in the pornographic film industry, winning 15 awards for her work between 20, including the AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2008. Marina Ann Hantzis (born 1988 ), known professionally as Sasha Grey, is an American actress, model, writer, musician, and former pornographic film actress.
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