Katsuni
Career
Born Céline Tran in Lyon to a Vietnamese father and a French mother, she performed under the stage names Katsumi and Katsuni — a name a French court barred her from using in January 2007 after a trademark suit from an unrelated woman, fining her €20,000 later that year for continuing to use it. She won AVN's Foreign Female Performer of the Year three years running, 2005 to 2007, and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2014, before retiring in 2013 and returning to France. What sets her apart on this specific page is what she did next: she wrote about pornography for mainstream French outlets including Le Nouvel Observateur and Les Inrockuptibles while still working, hosted a sexuality talk show on the French community site NextPLZ, published a full autobiography, Ne dis pas que tu aimes ça, in 2018, and built a continuing career as a writer, blogger and comic-book scriptwriter under her own name. She is one of the few performers on any page in this programme with a documented body of published writing about the industry she worked in, rather than a body of work photographed within it.
Signature: A three-time AVN Foreign Performer of the Year whose stage name read as Japanese to most audiences despite Vietnamese-French heritage — and who is one of the few performers anywhere in this programme with an actual bibliography.
Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0
Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Katsuni's placement inside Best Asian Pornstars: The Category, Not the Countries — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 4 rankings below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.
Full award record8 entries
- 2005AVN — Female Foreign Performer of the Year
- 2006AVN — Female Foreign Performer of the Year
- 2007AVN — Female Foreign Performer of the Year
- 2004AVN — Best Sex Scene in a Foreign-Shot Production
- 2007AVN — Best Supporting Actress
- 2008AVN — Best Three-Way Sex Scene
- 2011AVN — Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene
- 2014AVN — Hall of Fame
Best known for
Studios
Beyond performing
- Comic-book scriptwriter, DoggyBags (2017–)
- Publisher, Glénat Editions (2018–)
Mainstream credits
- Guest, On n'est pas couché (2009)
- Columnist, Le Nouvel Observateur and Les Inrockuptibles
- Katsuni's Sexy Mangas (MCM, 2010–2011)
- Porn in the Hood (2012)
- Autobiography Ne dis pas que tu aimes ça (Fayard, 2018)
- Stunt double for Michelle Yeoh, The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022)
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Sources and verification1 source
- Exact birth date — only the year 1978 or 1979 is documented, sources disagree on which
