Skin Diamond
Career
Born Raylin Christensen, of part-Ethiopian and part-European heritage (Danish, Czech, Yugoslavian, German), Skin Diamond worked as an alternative and fetish model before her 2009 adult-film debut. She won the Urban X Female Performer of the Year title in 2012 and three further AVN category wins in 2014–2015. She retired from adult film in 2016 to play Dylan Quinn in Showtime’s BDSM drama Submission and to pursue music, later fronting the reggae-punk band The Calamatix.
Signature: A performer whose own documented heritage — part-Ethiopian, part-European — sits awkwardly inside a single marketing tag, which is exactly the point this article makes about the word "ebony."
Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0
Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Skin Diamond's placement inside The Best Blowjob Pornstars, Ranked — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 5 rankings below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.
Full award record4 entries
- 2012Urban X Awards — Female Performer of the Year
- 2014AVN — Best Oral Sex Scene (Skin)
- 2014AVN — Best Double Penetration Sex Scene (Skin)
- 2015AVN — Group Sex Scene of the Year (All About That Orgy)
Best known for
Mainstream credits
- Submission (Showtime, 2016)
- Recording artist; lead singer, The Calamatix
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Sources and verification1 source
- A further run of claimed AVN, XBIZ and Urban X wins and a claimed 2024 Urban X Hall of Fame induction could not be independently confirmed against a primary ceremony page and are not scored here
