Elly Akira

Career

Born Fareeza Terunuma in Saudi Arabia to a Japanese mother and a Syrian father, she grew up in Tokyo and has said she was not raised in the Islamic faith. She entered the Japanese adult industry in 2005 and worked across adult video and theatrical pink film, winning Best New Actress at the Pink Grand Prix in 2007 and two AV Grand Prix awards in 2009, with a Best Actress nomination at the Adult Broadcasting Awards in 2010. In DMM’s 2012 thirtieth-anniversary public vote she was ranked 55th among the top hundred AV actresses of all time. She works separately as a visual artist and photographer, and received the Lily Franky Award for her exhibition at the 2009 Geisai art fair. She stopped performing in 2016 and returned in 2019.

Signature: The longest working career under this keyword by a margin, and a reminder that Arab diaspora runs in directions nobody searching this term expects — a Syrian father, a Saudi birth certificate and a Japanese AV filmography.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Elly Akira'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

• 2007Pink Grand Prix — Best New Actress
• 2009AV Grand Prix — Digital Sales Award
• 2009AV Grand Prix — Best Lovely/Moe Video Award
• 2010Adult Broadcasting Awards — Best Actress (nomination)

Studios

Mainstream credits

• Theatrical pink film work (from 2007)
• Solo art exhibition, Geisai art fair (2009, Lily Franky Award)
• Photography practice

Official links

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Ranked alongside

• Bonnie Rotten
• Mia Khalifa
• Adriana Chechik
• Emily Willis
• Yasmine Lafitte
• Arabelle Raphael

Sources and verification1 source

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Elly Akira

Not yet confirmed:

• Date of birth — Wikipedia files her under "Year of birth missing"
• Her Syrian paternal descent and Saudi birthplace rest on a single archived television-profile citation, not on independent press reporting
• Total credit count
• The Pink Grand Prix Best New Actress win is recorded as 2007 in some places and 2008 in others; scored here as 2007
• Whether she has ever publicly described herself in Arab terms, as distinct from stating where she was born and that she was not raised Muslim