Asa Akira born January 3, is an American pornographic film actress , writer and adult film director. Akira has appeared in adult films as of June Asa Akira was born in Manhattan , New York. Asa is her real first name, which means "morning" in Japanese. Her professional surname was taken from the anime film Akira. Akira began working as a dominatrix when she was 19 years old. Akira received several award nominations for her role in David Aaron Clark 's film, Pure , in which she plays a telephonist at a fetish dungeon who has an affair with the head-mistress' husband.
In , she made her directorial debut with Elegant Angel 's Gangbanged 6. On October 9, , Akira announced that she signed an exclusive performing contract with Wicked Pictures. Akira made a cameo appearance in the mainstream film Starlet.
In , Akira featured as a guest in episode 1 of season 3 of the Eric Andre Show. In , Akira appeared as herself in the first episode of the sixteenth season of Family Guy in a live-action casting couch cutaway scene with Peter Griffin. Akira later noted that, ironically, this was her first casting couch scene.
The episode featured a recurring joke of people asking Peter "who was the girl on the couch" and Peter giving a deadpan reply that he is certain each inquirer already knows who she is.
In the eighth episode of the twentieth season after Peter is fired from his job, he tries to clear his browser history, but it's too late as the company IT guy notes that Peter is "all in" on Akira. On April 6, , The Hundreds started releasing episodes for a series titled Hobbies with Asa Akira , which features Akira trying out different activities such as tattooing, boxing , taxidermy , and ice sculpting. Akira states that she is sexually attracted to both men and "girls that look like boys".
