Sunrise Adams

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Sunrise Adams
Sunrise Adams at AEE 2007 Thursday 2 (cropped).jpg
Adams in 2007
Born
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupations
  • Pornographic film actress
  • author
Relatives Sunset Thomas (aunt) [1]
Writing career
LanguageEnglish
Genre Erotica
Notable awards2003 Best New Starlet – Venus Award
2004 Best Oral Sex Scene, Film – AVN Award

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 the episode "House Sitting" for the softcore series The Best Sex Ever on Cinemax. [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 an AVN Award for Best Actress in 2003, losing to Jenna Haze. [7] 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. [8] In October 2004, she appeared in an episode of the Australian television comedy series Pizza: Special Deliveries . [9] Adams appeared as a wrestler in the 2004 fighting video game Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood . [10] In 2005, Adams ended her contract with Vivid Entertainment to pursue a relationship with someone whom she 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. She stated 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 January 13, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ Hustler , May 2005
  3. 1 2 3 Creamer, Natalie (November 14, 2006). "Vivid Girl Sunrise Adams Returns from Hiatus AVN". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on January 13, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ "The Best Sex Ever: Season 1: Episode 4: House Sitting". TV.com. Archived from the original on January 13, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  5. 1 2 Cavuto, Neil (March 25, 2015). "Steve Hirsch, Vivid Entertainment Co-Founder andSunrise Adams, Vivid Entertainment Star". Fox News . Archived from the original on January 13, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  6. ↑ Baker, Gray (December 13, 2003). "SUNRISE ADAMS: An AVNInsider Interview". Adult Video News Insider. Archived from the original on December 13, 2003. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  7. ↑ Stone, Mark (Director) (2003). AVN 20th Anniversary Awards Show (DVD). Chatsworth, California: VCA Labs, Inc.
  8. ↑ Rush, George; Molloy, Joanna (October 19, 2004). "Were porn stars an O'Reilly factor?" . New York Daily News. Retrieved January 13, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Pizza: Special Deliveries: episode guide". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  10. ↑ Navarro, Alex (November 22, 2004). "Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood Review". GameSpot .
  11. ↑ "16.-19. Oktober 2003: 7.Venus Internationale Fachmesse" (PDF). Venus-berlin.de (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2007.
  12. ↑ "Private and Americans Win Big at Venus Fair". Adult Video News. October 22, 2003. Retrieved May 3, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  13. ↑ Jared Rutter (January 12, 2004). "The 21st Annual AVN Awards: Glamour, Prestige, Fun". Adult Video News. Archived from the original on February 24, 2007. Retrieved June 5, 2007.
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