How Much is Asa Akira Worth? Asa Akira in Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings & Assets

Many fans are curious about Asa Akira's financial success in April 2026. Our team analyzed the latest data to provide a clear picture of their income.

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She co-hosted the 30th Annual AVN Awards alongside adult film starJesse Janeand comedian April Macie. That same night, she won the AVN Female Performer of the Year award. She ended up being the most awarded actress during the ceremony. She made her directorial debut in 2014 with Elegant Angel's "Gangbanged 6." In October 2013, she announced that she had signed an exclusive performing contract with Wicked Pictures. Her debut film as a contract performer for the company was called "Asa Is Wicked."

Asa got her start in the adult world as a dominatrix when she was 19 years old. She then got a job stripping at the Hustler Club in New York City. Akira met pornographic actressGina Lynnthere, and Lynn offered her porn work. She started out only doing girl-on-girl scenes, mainly with Lynn, but eventually transitioned to more diverse adult roles. Her first male-female scene was with Travis Knight for Gina Lynn Productions. Akira then signed a contract with Vouyer Media before becoming a freelance adult film actress six months later.  She received several nominations for her role in David Aaron Clark's 2009 film "Pure," in which she plays a telephonist at a fetish dungeon who winds up having an affair with the head mistress's husband.

Asa Akira is a Japanese-American adult film star who has a net worth of $4 million. Over the course of her adult film career, Asa Akira has appeared in over 500 adult films. She has won 32 major awards out of 82 nominations. In 2013, Akira became the third Asian performer afterAsia Carreraand Stephanie Swift to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award. She also hosted the first and second ceremonies for the Pornhub Awards. Asa Akira is 5 feet two inches tall.

She has described her childhood as "perfectly normal" and that her family spoke Japanese at home and were "health nuts" who avoided junk food. As a teenager, Akira worked as a cashier at a children's bookstore called Books of Wonder. Akira was able to secure a scholarship to attend the United Nations International School in Manhattan because her grandfather had been a Japanese diplomat for 45 years. However, she was not invited to return in her sophomore year due to her poor grades, so Asa enrolled at Washington Irving High School in Gramercy Park, NYC.

Asa Akira was born on January 3, 1986, in New York City. She is the only child of Japanese immigrant parents. Asa is her real first name, which means "morning" in Japanese, and the last name in her stage name was taken from the anime film "Akira." She lived in SoHo until age nine. Her family moved back to Tokyo, Japan, when Asa was nine years old because her father, a portrait photographer, was relocated there for work. The family lived there until she was 13, then they moved back to the United States. They first moved to Brooklyn and later resided in Clinton Hill.

She made a cameo appearance in the mainstream film "Starlet." In January 2014, Akira, along withDana DeArmond, Chanel Preston, and Jessie Andrews, were featured in a "Cosmo" magazine article titled "Four Porn Stars on How They Stay Fit." The article was inspired by actressGabrielle Union'scomment made onConan O'Brien'stalk showabout striving to follow the fitness routines of the porn stars she saw at her gym. In 2014, she was a guest in Episode 1 of Season 3 of the "Eric AndreShow." In 2017, Akira appeared as herself in the first episode of season 16 of "Family Guy" in a live-action casting couch scene with Peter Griffin. Akira later noted that it was her first casting couch scene. The episode featured a recurring joke of people asking Peter, "Who was the girl on the couch?" and Peter giving a deadpan reply that he is certain the inquirer already knows who she is.​​

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