Mimi Miyagi
Career
Born Melody Damayo in Davao City, Miyagi worked in adult film from the early 1990s until retiring and relocating to Henderson, Nevada, in 1996. Nearly bankrupted by a divorce, she returned in September 2003 with Happy Ending and worked steadily until a second retirement in 2007, after which she moved into mainstream film (Little Bruno, 2007; Speed Dragon, 2013) and publishing, running the magazines Oriental Dolls and, later, Asian Hotties, and working as a fashion reporter for the online magazine Eyestrane from 2012. Her most singular credential has nothing to do with film credits: on 12 May 2006 she filed as a Republican candidate for Governor of Nevada under her legal name, telling press "I have nothing left to hide, everybody has seen all of me already." She lost the primary to Jim Gibbons and later joined the Libertarian Party, and separately appeared in the 1998 HBO documentary Strippers: The Naked Stages.
Signature: The only performer in this field to run for statewide public office on her adult-film record rather than in spite of it — a genuine 2006 Nevada gubernatorial primary candidacy under her own legal name.
Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0
Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Mimi Miyagi's placement inside Best Asian Pornstars: The Category, Not the Countries — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 2 rankings below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.
Best known for
Beyond performing
- Publisher, Oriental Dolls / Asian Hotties magazine
- Fashion reporter, Eyestrane online magazine (2012)
Mainstream credits
- Republican candidate, Nevada gubernatorial primary (2006)
- Strippers: The Naked Stages (1998, HBO documentary)
- Little Bruno (2007 film)
- Speed Dragon (2013 film)
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Sources and verification2 sources
- Exact 1991 debut year
- No consolidated filmography count
