- Leanni Lei
Female adult bio
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birthname= Leanni Lei
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eye color= Brown
hair color= Black
natural bust= Yes
ethnicity= Filipina
films= 144
alias= Lallani Lei, Leanni Lee
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afdb name= Leanni_LeiLeanni Lei (born
June 6 [http://www.rogreviews.com/interviews/leanni_lei.asp "Leanni Lei Interview"] , by Roger T. Pipe, on the set of aMimi Miyagi film, June 1999. Retrieved2007-11-19 .] 1974 in thePhilippines ) is an Americanpornographic actress .Biography
Leanni Lei was born in the Philippines, but her family moved to the
United States when she was quite young. She grew up inIrvine, California , where she was a cheerleader and member of the honor society in high school. Her father was in the military and her mother worked as a restaurant manager. [http://www.mentertainment.com/mag/leanni.htm "Dancer Interview with Leanni Lei"] , by Sophie Ben-Shitta, at the Mardi Gras in Springfield, MA, Sophie's "Mentertainment" Online, 1999. Retrieved2007-11-19 .] During her last year in high school, her parents divorced, and she became rebellious, smokingmarijuana , and being expelled from the cheerleader squad.Lei went to college for a year and a half (including a semester at the
University of California, Irvine [http://www.raincoatreviews.com/aph/aphchattranscript_leanni_lei_050828.htm Leanni Lei Chat Transcript] on Snowman's Raincoat Reviews (raincoatreviews.com),2005-08-28 . Retrieved2007-11-19 .] ), then quit to go intoexotic dancing on the east coast to earn money. She moved toConnecticut in 1993. Lei became a pornographic actress partly due to her admiration for porn starMimi Miyagi . Her first movie was filmed in October 1997 forEd Powers , who was also Miyagi's first director. Lei returned to college, and continued living and going to college in Connecticut (majoring infinance with a minor inaccounting ), while appearing in pornography in California. After working for a year or so, she felt "burnt out" and quietly dropped out to rest and earn her college degree. She resumed working in movies in June 1999. Mimi Miyagi helped her set up her web site.Despite her generally short career, Lei has been known for doing extreme scenes at the time of her career as a porn star, such as her performances with
Max Hardcore . She has said that working with Max helped pay her way through college.Lei won the Model of the Year award from "
Oriental Dolls " magazine in September 1998.In the video for Notorious BIG's song "One More Chance", Leanni is seated next to model
Tyson Beckford as the camera pans left, at about 0:35 seconds. Video can be seen at http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Notorious_BIG/Videos/583195/. Leanni mentioned on her blog that she was in the "right place at the right time" to get in the video.Leanni is said to be the actress appearing (uncredited) in a brief porno film scene viewed by Tom Welles (played by
Nicolas Cage ) in the film "8mm".References
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