Tia Tanaka

Career

Born in Jakarta to Vietnamese-French parents, Tia Tanaka relocated to the United States with her mother at age one and grew up in New York before moving to California — Indonesian-born by birthplace alone, not by ethnicity or upbringing, a distinction this page states directly rather than blurring. She entered the industry in 2005 under the stage names Sasha Lei and Mulan Wang before adopting "Tia Tanaka," a name given to her by director Ed Powers, and performed from 2005 to 2014. She won Best Asian Starlet at the 2007 Adam Film World Guide Awards and was a finalist for Favorite New Actress at the FAME Awards the same year. Her English Wikipedia biography has since been deleted, consistent with the wider 2019 WP:PORNBIO pattern, but she retains sitelinks on thirteen other language Wikipedias, including Indonesian.

Signature: The only performer on this page with an award confirmed through a contemporary trade announcement rather than reconstructed entirely from Wikidata.

Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0

Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Tia Tanaka's placement inside Indonesian Pornstars: The Documented Record — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 1 ranking below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.

Full award record2 entries

• 2007Adam Film World Guide Awards — Best Asian Starlet
• 2007FAME Awards — Favorite New Actress (finalist)

Official links

No official accounts confirmed. We only list handles we have verified on an authoritative page — a guessed handle in this industry usually belongs to an impersonator.

Ranked alongside

• Katsuni
• Annabel Chong
• Yasmin Lee
• Cindy Starfall
• Bamboo
• Kaylani Lei

Sources and verification2 sources

Last audited 22 August 2026 · Indonesian Wikipedia — Tia Tanaka · Wikipedia — Tanaka (disambiguation)

Not yet confirmed:

• No current English-language Wikipedia article; the "Tanaka" disambiguation page confirms one existed and describes her as an "Indonesian-born American pornographic actress"
• The 2007 Adam Film World Guide Awards win could not be cross-checked against a ceremony page, as none exists on English Wikipedia; it is sourced to an archived AVN Business trade announcement instead
• Complete filmography and total credit count