Stoya

Stoya
Stoya at the 2014 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo
Born	Jessica 1986 (age 30–31) Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Website	stoyaxxx.com
No. of adult films	65 (per IAFD as of May 2016)

Stoya (born 1986) is an American pornographic actress and model, regarded as Digital Playground's first alt porn contract girl. She is co-owner of pornographic web site TRENCHCOATx, as well as a writer, having written for publications including Vice, The New York Times and Esquire.

Stoya was born in Wilmington, North Carolina to a Serbian mother and a Scottish father. Her mother named her after Jessica Savitch.

As a child, she wanted to become a dancer, starting dance lessons at the age of three. She was home-schooled and got her high-school diploma before the age of sixteen. Because her father worked in IT, Stoya had access to a lot of electronics and gaming equipment, which she says developed her love for technology.

"I was three when I was using DOS. My mom taught me how to read, and my dad taught me how to navigate DOS", she has said. At a later age, Stoya moved to Delaware, where she spent a semester at Delaware College of Art & Design, but she later dropped out. After relocating to Philadelphia, she attended a summer program at UArts. Some of her jobs in Philadelphia included being a secretary, flier distributor, and a go-go dancer. Stoya appeared in several music videos for bands that, according to her, "no one will ever hear of." In May 2009, Stoya said that she would be moving from Philadelphia and relocating to Los Angeles in the fall of that year.