Mai Lin
Career
Born in Oakland, California, to a mother from China and a father born in California to Chinese immigrants, Lin entered the industry performing in film loops after her husband, Dean, introduced her to industry contacts, then moved into hardcore features in the mid-1970s. She worked steadily through the medium’s golden age before retiring in the early 1990s, and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2005 and the XRCO Hall of Fame’s Film Pioneers branch in 2007 — both confirmed directly against the two organisations’ own published member lists. She has no standalone English-language Wikipedia article; the sitelink for her name is a redirect, consistent with the wider 2019 deletion of golden-age performer biographies under the withdrawal of WP:PORNBIO.
Signature: A double Hall of Fame inductee from the medium’s golden age, at a level of institutional recognition matched on this page only by Bob Chinn — but the only source found for the Chinese-descent claim that qualifies her for this list at all is an IMDb biographical note, not an encyclopaedia article.
Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0
Full award record2 entries
- 2005AVN — Hall of Fame inductee
- 2007XRCO — Hall of Fame inductee (Film Pioneers)
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Sources and verification3 sources
- No standalone English-language Wikipedia article — the sitelink is a redirect
- Chinese descent is sourced only to an IMDb biographical note (mother from China, father born in California to Chinese immigrants); no Wikipedia article text or referenced Wikidata property confirms it independently
- Exact debut year and consolidated filmography count
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