Karla Lane

Career

Karla Lane won the AVN Award for BBW Performer of the Year at the 33rd AVN Awards in January 2016 — the last year the category ran as a juried, industry-voted title before AVN moved it into its fan-voted Fan Awards section the following year. She won again at the 36th AVN Awards in 2019, this time for the broader Niche Performer of the Year category. Both wins were checked directly against AVN’s own published ceremony records rather than a secondary listing. Wikidata records her active period as 2005–2016, which sits awkwardly against a confirmed 2019 award; that discrepancy is not resolved here and is flagged rather than smoothed over.

Signature: One of only four performers ever to win AVN’s BBW Performer of the Year while it was still a juried category rather than a fan vote, and the only one of the four to also win a second, broader niche title three years later.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Karla Lane's placement inside The Best Curvy Pornstars, Ranked — 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 record2 entries

• 2016AVN — BBW Performer of the Year (33rd AVN Awards, for 2015)
• 2019AVN — Niche Performer of the Year (36th AVN Awards)

Official links

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Ranked alongside

• April Flores
• Riley Reid
• Kira Noir
• Adriana Chechik
• Eva Elfie
• Gina Valentina

Sources and verification3 sources

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Wikidata — Karla Lane · Wikipedia — 33rd AVN Awards · Wikipedia — 36th AVN Awards

Not yet confirmed:

• No English-language Wikipedia article
• Wikidata’s 2016 end-of-activity date conflicts with the confirmed 2019 AVN win