Jonathan Agassi

Career

Born in Brooklyn and raised in the Israeli city of Holon, Agassi auditioned in 2009 for Men of Israel — the first pornographic film shot on location in Israel with an all-Israeli cast, produced and directed by Michael Lucas for Lucas Entertainment — and performed in two scenes. He went on to roughly a decade in gay adult film, working with Lucas Entertainment and living for part of that period in Berlin, where he also worked as an escort. From around 2010 the Israeli director Tomer Heymann filmed him continuously for eight years, covering his rise, his relationship with his mother, and his drug use and depression; the resulting documentary, Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life, had its international premiere at IDFA in November 2018. He has since stopped performing and lives in Tel Aviv.

Signature: The only performer in this category whose career is documented by a feature documentary he took part in for eight years — and, through it, by The New York Times, The Guardian, IndieWire and Haaretz rather than by an unreferenced database field.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Best known for

Studios

Mainstream credits

• Subject of Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life (2018), a feature documentary by Tomer Heymann filmed over eight years
• That film won Best Documentary and Best Editing at the Jerusalem Film Festival, July 2018
• That film won the Israeli Film Academy (Ophir) Award for Best Documentary, 2019
• Broadcast on BBC Four in March 2020; US theatrical release from 13 May 2022
• Reviewed by The New York Times and IndieWire in May 2022, with earlier coverage in Haaretz and The Guardian

Official links

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Ranked alongside

• Michael Lucas
• Daphne Rosen
• Layla Sin
• Dror Barak
• Stephanie Cane

Sources and verification4 sources

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life · The New York Times — review, 12 May 2022 · The Guardian — 15 November 2019 · Wikidata — Jonathan Agassi

Not yet confirmed:

• No dedicated English-language Wikipedia article; the English-language encyclopaedic record reaches him through the article on the documentary about him
• Exact date of birth — Wikidata gives 29 September 1984 with no reference on the claim, so only the year is used here
• A "Best Porn Performer" award reported for 2011 is not attributed to any named awarding body in any source we could reach, and is not counted as a win
• His Wikidata item records United States citizenship, carries no Israeli claim, and has zero sitelinks and zero references on every statement; his Israeli identity here rests on mainstream press and on the documentary, not on that item
• No consolidated filmography, credit count or complete studio list