Small Hands

Career

Aaron Thompson entered the industry in 2013 through a scene for Burning Angel, the alt-porn studio run by Joanna Angel, whom he married in 2016 and who gave him his stage name. He built his career largely within alt-porn and became a two-time AVN Male Performer of the Year, having already taken the XBIZ and XRCO equivalents — making him one of the very few to hold the top honour from all three American bodies. Outside the industry he is a musician, signing his project Empty Streets to Cleopatra Records in 2021.

Signature: Holds Male Performer of the Year from AVN, XBIZ and XRCO — a sweep almost nobody in the category has completed.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Small Hands's placement inside The 20 Best Male Pornstars of 2026 — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 7 rankings below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.

Full award record5 entries

• 2020AVN — Male Performer of the Year
• 2021AVN — Male Performer of the Year
• 2018XBIZ — Male Performer of the Year
• 2019XRCO — Male Performer of the Year
• 2018AVN — Best Supporting Actor

Studios

Beyond performing

• Empty Streets (music project)

Official links

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Ranked alongside

• Joanna Angel
• Bonnie Rotten
• Romi Rain
• Stoya
• Manuel Ferrara
• Asa Akira

Sources and verification2 sources

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Wikipedia — AVN Award for Male Performer of the Year · Wikidata — Small Hands

Not yet confirmed:

• No dedicated English Wikipedia article
• credit count is an estimate