Mariska X

Career

Mariska X is a Brazilian-born performer and director, also credited simply as Mariska, who has been based in Belgium since around 2008. She appeared in early productions from about 2009 and founded her own label, Mariska X Productions, in 2012, later moving into directing from 2014. She won the Venus Award for Best Newcomer in the pornographic-film category in 2017 and the XBIZ Europa Award for Performer/Director Site of the Year in 2020. She was a nominee, but not the winner, for the AVN Award for Best Actress in 2022 for Betrayal (Dorcel/Pulse). She is unrelated to the American actress Mariska Hargitay, who shares only the given name and has no connection to the adult industry.

Signature: A Brazilian-born director-performer known for running her own production label since 2012, with a Venus Award win and an AVN Best Actress nomination to her name.

Full award record2 entries

• 2017Venus Awards — Best Newcomer — Pornofilm Production
• 2020XBIZ Europa Awards — Performer/Director Site of the Year

Best known for

Studios

Beyond performing

• Founded Mariska X Productions in 2012
• Directing credits from 2014

Official links

Official site

Ranked alongside

• Gina Valentina
• Jessie Rogers
• Olivia Del Rio
• Dread Hot
• Emme White
• Fernandinha Fernandez

Sources and verification5 sources

Last audited 6 September 2026 · Wikipedia (German) — Mariska X · Wikipedia (German) — Venus Awards 2017 · Wikipedia — 39th AVN Awards (confirms 2022 nomination, not a win) · Wikidata — Mariska X (Q98369075) · Wikipedia — Mariska (disambiguation, confirms no adult-performer entries and no link to Mariska Hargitay)

Not yet confirmed:

• Nationality/residency: sources agree she was born in Brazil in 1978, but differ on whether her second citizenship or residency is Belgian or Dutch; Wikidata/IAFD list Brazil and Belgium, some summaries describe her as Brazilian-Dutch. Nationality is given here as Brazilian only.
• Debut year is approximate: some sources place her first credited appearances around 2009, others treat 2012, when she founded her own production label, as her official start.
• Wikidata lists her as an AVN Award WINNER for Best Leading Actress and Best Directing: International Production in 2022. The official 39th AVN Awards winners list on Wikipedia shows she was a NOMINEE for Best Actress (Betrayal) and that Best Directing: International Production went to Julia Grandi for Jia. The Wikidata win claims could not be confirmed and are treated here as incorrect.
• The XBIZ Europa Award for 2020 is confirmed by the German Wikipedia article but could not be independently verified against an XBIZ- or IMDb-hosted primary listing.
• No verified total film or directing credit count was found.