Conner Habib

Career

Born Andre Khalil to a Syrian father and an Irish-American mother, he grew up in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, in a home he has described as "areligious". He taught literature and composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2004 to 2007 and at Western New England University in 2007 before entering the adult industry, where he appeared in more than 150 scenes for Titan Media, Men.com, Falcon Entertainment and Raging Stallion Studios. He won the GayVN Award for Best Newcomer in 2010 and the Grabby Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2012, and served as vice-president of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee from 2014 to 2016. He has written for BuzzFeed, Salon, Vice, Slate, The Stranger and The Irish Times, launched the podcast Against Everyone With Conner Habib in June 2017, and published his debut novel Hawk Mountain with W. W. Norton in July 2022; it was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Signature: He picked the stage surname Habib specifically because it reads as Middle Eastern, in an industry where almost nobody was visibly Arab — and he wrote an essay explaining that he had done it. Nobody else in this category made their Arab identity a deliberate professional choice rather than a fact journalists dug up.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Conner Habib's placement inside Arab Pornstars: Who Actually Qualifies — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 1 ranking below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.

Full award record4 entries

• 2010GayVN — Best Newcomer
• 2012Grabby Awards — Best Supporting Actor — Dad Goes to College
• 2016Raven’s Eden Awards — Best All Male Threesome — Dad Out West (co-winner)
• 2016Sexual Freedom Awards — Publicist of the Year

Best known for

Studios

Mainstream credits

• Hawk Mountain (novel, W. W. Norton, 2022; longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)
• Against Everyone With Conner Habib (podcast, 2017 onwards)
• Essays and journalism for BuzzFeed, Salon, Vice, Slate, The Stranger and The Irish Times
• Literature and composition teaching, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2004–2007) and Western New England University (2007)

Official links

Official site

Ranked alongside

• Mia Khalifa
• Nina Hartley
• Tera Patrick
• Buck Angel
• Kayden Kross
• Belle Knox

Sources and verification5 sources

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Conner Habib · Conner Habib, "What’s In A (Porn) Name?", BuzzFeed, 1 August 2013 — his own account of choosing the name · Wikipedia — GayVN Awards (2010 Best Newcomer winner list) · Grabby Awards — 2012 winners (archived) · Lynn Comella, "Navigating campus controversy: an interview with adult performer Conner Habib", Porn Studies 2(2–3), July 2015

Not yet confirmed:

• Birth year — the article states 23 August 1977 while its own category places him in 1974 births
• Place of birth — not recorded; Wikipedia files him under "Place of birth missing"
• Exact final year of performing