Arabelle Raphael

Career

Raphael was born in France to a French and Tunisian mother and an Iranian Jewish father, and her family emigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was five. She began working in the sex industry in 2010, including at the worker-owned strip club The Lusty Lady, and shot her first pornographic scene for Kink.com. She has said that early in her career mainstream producers either fetishised her ethnic appearance or tried to make her look whiter. She co-directed All My Mother’s Lovers for Grooby Productions in 2017, which won Most Tantalizing Trans Film at the Toronto International Porn Festival, has directed the experimental film La Nuisance, and contributed photographs to a 2017 SOMArts exhibition restaging hate mail she had received. After FOSTA-SESTA passed in 2018 she organised cybersecurity and resource-sharing meetings for Bay Area sex workers and co-founded Bay Pros Support with Maxine Holloway. Her OnlyFans income rose sixfold during the COVID-19 pandemic and the platform became her full-time occupation.

Signature: She is the one performer in this category who has publicly described what the industry actually does with a North African face — fetishise it or wash it out — which makes her account the closest thing here to first-hand evidence about the category itself.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Arabelle Raphael's placement inside Arab Pornstars: Who Actually Qualifies — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 2 rankings below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.

Full award record1 entries

• 2025Pornhub Awards — Favorite Inked Model

Best known for

Studios

Beyond performing

• Independent subscription business (OnlyFans), her full-time occupation since 2020

Mainstream credits

• All My Mother’s Lovers (2017, co-director; Most Tantalizing Trans Film, Toronto International Porn Festival)
• La Nuisance (experimental film, director)
• SOMArts exhibition (2017, photography)
• Published poetry and essays

Official links

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Ranked alongside

• Joanna Angel
• Bonnie Rotten
• Lana Rhoades
• Mia Khalifa
• Nina Hartley
• Brandi Love

Sources and verification2 sources

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Arabelle Raphael · Sarah Hotchkiss, "An Artist and Sex Worker Taking Charge of Her Business", KQED, 22 March 2018 — the cited source for her parentage

Not yet confirmed:

• Exact date of birth — reported only as 1988 or 1989
• Whether her Tunisian maternal line is Arab, Amazigh or Tunisian Jewish — the KQED profile records the country, not the ethnicity, and her paternal line is Iranian Jewish rather than Arab
• Total credit count