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Briana Banks at the XBIZ Awards in Los Angeles, California on January 15, 2016
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Born |
Briana Bany May 21, 1978 Munich, Germany |
Other names | Mirage |
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Weight | 130 lb (59 kg; 9.3 st) |
Website | ocmodeling |
No. of adult films | 321 with compilations (per IAFD, as of May 2016) |
Briana Banks (born May 21, 1978) is the stage name of a German American pornographic actress and model. She is the Penthouse Pet of the Month for June 2001.
Briana Bany was born in Munich, Germany to a German father and an American mother. They moved to Britain when she was four, then to the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley when she was seven. Her father still lives in Germany. She moved out of her mother's house when she was 16, taking her 14-year-old sister with her. She got custody of her sister when she turned 18.
Banks modeled as a teenager, including a cover of Teen magazine. She entered the industry under the name "Mirage", but began calling herself "Briana Banks" in 1999, after having the first of two breast enlargement operations. Having had aspirations of being a supermodel, she chose the professional surname "Banks" after model Tyra Banks. Her first appearance using the new name was in the film Decadent Whores 9.
In June 2001, Banks was Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month and also graced the cover of AVN magazine. The same year, she signed with Vivid Entertainment and became a Vivid Girl.
On October 13, 2006, Banks reportedly filed a federal lawsuit seeking more than US$ 75,000 in damages against Doc Johnson Enterprises, charging that they had created unauthorized products from molds of her genitals.