Sunrise Adams

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Sunrise Adams
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Adams at the 2003 Adult Entertainment Expo
Occupation
  • Pornographic film actress
  • author
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Genre Erotica
Notable awards2003 Best New Starlet – Venus Award
2004 Best Oral Sex Scene, Film – AVN Award
Relatives Sunset Thomas (aunt) [1]

Sunrise Adams is an American author and pornographic film actress.

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Early life

Sunrise Adams was born in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Pickton, Texas. [2] [ better source needed ] In high school, she is noted for being the first female football player of her high school. [3]

Career

In 2002, Adams shot episode; "House Sitting" for the Cinemax softcore series; The Best Sex Ever. [4] After years of mainstream modeling, including for Pony International, [5] Adams signed with Vivid Entertainment. [3] One of her favorite directors to work with became Chi Chi LaRue. [6]

Her first movie with Vivid was Portrait of Sunrise. [3] She was nominated for Best Actress by AVN in 2003, losing to Jenna Haze. [7] That same year, she appeared in the skateboarding movie Grind . [8] In June 2003, she appeared with Steve Hirsch on Your World with Neil Cavuto . [5]

In 2004, she won the award for Best Oral Sex Scene – Film, alongside Randy Spears, for Heart of Darkness. On August 2, 2004, she appeared with Savanna Samson on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor , to promote their book How to Have a XXX Sex Life. Weeks later, Adams and Samson were named in a lawsuit by Fox News producer Andrea Mackris that The O'Reilly Factor host Bill O'Reilly "launched into a vile and degrading monologue about sex" on the phone to Mackris immediately after the two porn stars appeared on the air. [9] In October 2004, she appeared in an episode of the Australian television comedy series Pizza: Special Deliveries . [10] In 2005, Adams ended her contract with Vivid Entertainment to pursue a relationship with someone who Adams described as wanting her to "be normal." She moved back to Texas and worked as a loan officer and in real estate. [1]

Adams returned to the porn industry and signed a contract with Vivid Entertainment in 2006. Stating that she "was going to come back and do just a little bit of boy/girl, and mainly girl/girl", but ultimately decided to "do it all". That same year, she launched her first website, which has since been taken down. [1]

Personal life

Adams is the niece of porn star Sunset Thomas.

Further reading

Works by Sunrise Adams
Works about Sunrise Adams

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sullivan, David (December 17, 2006). "Sunrise Adams Rises Again AVN". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  2. ↑ Hustler , May 2005
  3. 1 2 3 Creamer, Natalie (14 November 2006). "Vivid Girl Sunrise Adams Returns from Hiatus AVN". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "The Best Sex Ever: Season 1: Episode 4: House Sitting". TV.com. Archived from the original on 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
  5. 1 2 Cavuto, Neil (25 March 2015). "Steve Hirsch, Vivid Entertainment Co-Founder andSunrise Adams, Vivid Entertainment Star". Fox News. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  6. ↑ Baker, Gray (13 December 2003). "SUNRISE ADAMS: An AVNInsider Interview". Adult Video News Insider. Archived from the original on 13 December 2003. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  7. ↑ Stone, Mark (Director) (2003). AVN 20th Anniversary Awards Show (DVD). Chatsworth, California: VCA Labs, Inc.
  8. ↑ "Grind (2003)". IMDb. Archived from the original on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  9. ↑ Rush, George; Molloy, Joanna (19 October 2004). "Were porn stars an O'Reilly factor?" . New York Daily News. Retrieved 13 January 2020– via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Pizza: Special Deliveries: episode guide". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 2025-04-11.
  11. ↑ "16.-19. Oktober 2003: 7.Venus Internationale Fachmesse" (PDF). Venus-berlin.de (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2007.
  12. ↑ "Private and Americans Win Big at Venus Fair". Adult Video News. 22 October 2003. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  13. ↑ Jared Rutter (12 January 2004). "The 21st Annual AVN Awards: Glamour, Prestige, Fun". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on February 24, 2007. Retrieved 5 June 2007.
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