Mika Tan
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Tan at the 2005 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo
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| Born | November 27, 1977 [1] Honolulu, Hawaii, USA[2][3] |
| Nationality | American[3] |
| Other names | Mikatan, Mika, Mika Okinawa,[3] Leiloni |
| Ethnicity | Japanese, Taiwanese, Samoan,[3][4] Okinawan[5] |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[3] |
| Weight | 121 lb (55 kg; 8.6 st)[3] |
| Spouse(s) | Alec Knight[6] (divorced[7]) |
| Website | http://www.mikatan.com |
| No. of adult films | 475 (per IAFD)[3] |
Mika Tan (born November 27, 1977[1]) is the stage name of an American fetish model (BDSM/DS/stocking and pantyhose fetish), and pornographic actress.[3]
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Early life and career
Tan was born in Hawaii[2][3] to a Japanese-Samoan father and an Okinawan-Taiwanese mother.[5] She was raised by her grandmother, who was an established folk dancer and singer and was also the owner of several massage parlors.[7][8] While her mother's family was musical, her father's was mainly military,[2] including her sister[7] - who serves in the United States Marine Corps and has helped Tan with her official website.[2] As a "Navy brat", Tan traveled around the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa all before she started high school.[2] She had a childhood background in the performing arts and has worked in the commercial fisheries industry in the past.[4]
Tan began as a child model, doing catalog work beginning at age 12, and she has also appeared as an extra in movies & television and in commercials and live musical theater.[2][7][9][10] She was a member of a dance troupe, where she performed modern jazz and ballet.[9]
Tan used her National Merit Scholarship to earn a bachelor's degree in biochemistry[2] from San Diego State University[9] and an associate's degree in psychology. It took her five years to graduate,[2] and she did nude art modeling and was a stripper[7] to support her last year as a student.[11] Tan has studied classical voice and also graduated from the John Robert Powers Modeling/Finishing School.[9] She has also appeared on Playboy TV and in a music video for Too $hort called "Get in Where you Fit In".[9]
Despite her aptitude for science, she did not enjoy it and worked in sales and marketing in the timeshare industry[2] for Dennis Hof.
She tried her hand at mainstream acting in California but quit after discovering that the casting couch was not a myth.[7]
Adult film career
Tan was discovered at an am/pm by porn[7] director Jack Pearl. Tan also had a third trimester miscarriage during this period, which she has described as the worst time of her life.[2] She was married once to Alec Knight, another performer in the adult industry.[2][6][7]
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Tan primarily does fetish-oriented work, including work as a dominatrix and sub[2] for the Kink.com group of companies, mostly the "Men in Pain" and "Divine Bitches" websites. She also stars in non-fetish oriented work. She considers herself mainly a fetish model rather than a porn star though. The official biography on her website states: "For the record, I do not consider myself a porn star and any girl who has done less than 250 films shouldn't either."[2] Tan moved into film production & direction with her own production company (GenerAsianxxx Productions) with her debut film featuring heterosexual Asian-American men in hardcore scenes.[6]
Tan identifies as bisexual, and she briefly tried escorting in 2001.[7]
In 2011, Complex magazine ranked her at #23 on their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time".[4]
Awards
- 2006 Adam Film World Award - Best Asian Starlet[12]
- 2006 XRCO Award - Unsung Siren[13][14]
- 2007 AVN Award - Underrated Starlet of the Year (Unrecognized Excellence)[15]
- 2009 Urban X Award - Hall of Fame[16]
Gallery
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References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Mika Tan at the Internet Adult Film Database
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mika Tan - BangBros Network. Retrieved December 15, 2011.
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External links
- Mika Tan at the Internet Movie Database
- Mika Tan on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Mika Tan at the Internet Adult Film Database
- Mika Tan at the Adult Film Database
- Mika Tan Partial Adult Filmography
- Articles with dead external links from February 2015
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- American dominatrices
- American female adult models
- American pornographic film actresses
- American models of Asian descent
- American people of Okinawan descent
- American people of Samoan descent
- American people of Taiwanese descent
- American pornographic film actors of Chinese descent
- American pornographic film actors of Japanese descent
- American prostitutes
- Bisexual pornographic film actresses
- Bondage models
- LGBT American people of Asian descent
- LGBT dancers
- LGBT models
- Military brats
- Actresses from Honolulu, Hawaii
- Pornographic film actors from Hawaii
- San Diego State University alumni
- LGBT people from Hawaii
