Lisa Ann

About Lisa Ann

Ann was born in Easton, Pennsylvania on May 9, 1972, she is of Italian descent. During the first two years of her adult film career, she was under contract with Metro/Cal Vista and shot only once a month with porn artist John O'Rourke. She quit porn in 1997 due to an AIDS scare in the industry and spent the following seven years stripping. She also owned a day spa for four years during her hiatus from porn. She decided to resume performing in February 2006 after being asked to do a boy/girl photo shoot for Suze Randall. The first scene she shot after returning to the industry was with Christian XXX in Bra Bustin' and Deep Thrustin'.

Ann was selected to co-host the XRCO Awards in April 2010. She retired from pornography in 2014, which she announced via a Facebook post. She had a breast reduction surgery shortly after retiring from porn. Following her retirement, she continued to perform in webcam shows occasionally. In January 2018, she announced her return to the adult industry, signing with Evil Angel and making four more scenes. Her first scene was with male pornographic performer Isiah Maxwell for her website thelisaann.com.

In 2008, Ann starred as "Serra Paylin", a parody of 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, in Hustler Video's Who's Nailin' Paylin?, which was released on election day on November 4, 2008. Hustler contacted her to offer her the part on the day of the vice-presidential debate, which she viewed to learn Palin's mannerisms in preparation for the role. She also studied Tina Fey's impressions of Palin on Saturday Night Live. Afterward she became one of streaming video site AEBN's most popular female performers. She portrayed Palin again for the sequels Obama Is Nailin' Palin, Letterman's Nailin' Palin, You're Nailin' Palin, Hollywood's Nailin' Palin, and Who's Nailin' Palin? 2. Hustler also produced a mask in the likeness of her portraying Palin for Halloween in 2009. She reprised her role as Palin in the music video for the song "We Made You" by Eminem. She has also performed as Palin at various strip clubs.

Ann made her directorial debut with the film, Hung XXX, released on September 22, 2009, by Justin Slayer International. In August 2013, she launched her own production company, Lisa Ann Productions, and signed a distribution deal with Jules Jordan Video. Her directorial debut for the company, MILF Revolution, was released on August 5, 2013 .MILF Revolution won the 2014 AVN Award for "Best MILF Release".

Ann appeared on The Howard Stern Show as a "Snapple Girl" prior to the launching her adult entertainment career. On November 7, 2008, she appeared on Entertainment Tonight to promote Who's Nailin' Paylin?

Ann was ranked fifth on Complex magazine's list of "The Top 100 Hottest Porn Stars (Right Now)" in 2011. She was also placed on CNBC's annual list "The Dirty Dozen: Porn's Most Popular Stars" in 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015.

On October 14, 2010, Ann announced that she would only be shooting scenes with condoms after a male performer in the industry was diagnosed with HIV. She also stated that the STD testing system at the time was not enough and encouraged other performers to also demand condom use during shoots. In August 2012, she called for legislation mandating condom use in heterosexual adult films and questioned the standards of syphilis treatment for performers by industry doctors. In August 2013, she alleged that a male performer she was scheduled to work with may have tested positive for hepatitis C and tried to work anyway. She stated that the performer showed her a test from a facility outside of the industry which did not indicate any results for hepatitis and that she discovered two adult performer testing databases had him listed as unavailable to work. Subsequently, the Adult Production Health & Safety Services announced that they would start implementing monthly hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and trichomoniasis testing on August 19, 2013. While in the industry, she paid for a fresh round of tests for her co-stars to ensure they were negative for STIs.

Ann lived in Huntington Beach, California, for at least fifteen years. She previously lived in Boca Raton, Florida, for a year. As of October 2015, she owns a condo in Los Angeles and an apartment in Midtown Manhattan. She is a sports fan; her favorite sports are basketball and football. In high school, she played basketball and was in the ski club. She stated that if she had not worked in the adult film industry, she would have liked to become a sports agent or writer, blogger, and reporter. She is a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Cowboys.

At age 28, she married a bouncer, whom she later divorced. In November 2009, she told TMZ that she started dating Rob Kardashian after meeting him at a gym. A source close to Kardashian spoke to Us Weekly and confirmed that they met at a gym, but denied Ann's claim that they were dating. Due to her interest in sports and professional athletes along with her work as a sports reporter for the Sirius/XM network, Ann has attended numerous games, which has led to interaction, sometimes publicly, with athletes. In October 2014, speculation was raised whether Ann and 18-year-old Notre Dame football player Justin Brent were dating when the two appeared at a game together. After their appearance at Madison Square Garden, personal photos of the two in bed together were released online. In November 2014, she commented via her Twitter account regarding requests made to her by former New York Rangers hockey player Michael Del Zotto.

In a February 2014 interview with GQ magazine, sportswriter Myles Brown, Ann wrote, "...if dudes could be with Victoria's Secret models, that's how I look at athletes. I'm 42. I'm looking at 18, 19, 20-year-old guys." and continued, "They're at the beginning of their lives, so they're still excited, naïve and simple. They're not negative yet."

When asked how many athletes she had slept with, she replied, "In my life in the [adult] business for twenty-something years? A lot. Hundreds."She stated that her favored athletes for interaction or relationships are NBA players. Ann said this could lead to awkward situations, such as when players are traded and several athletes she is in contact with are on the same team, a situation she makes an effort to avoid. "I don't mess with multiple guys on a team at the same time. I don't want to be in any locker room talk."

In March 2015, during the annual March Madness NCAA basketball tournament, there was media attention regarding her involvement in a promotion in conjunction with the production studio Brazzers. The contest, "Win a Date with Lisa Ann", was co-sponsored by the studio and offered an all-expense-paid trip to the national championship game for the best trick shot video submitted. Unexpectedly, Brazzers withdrew the promotion via press release, effectively shutting down the contest.

Ann has been a long-time advocate for pensions and for porn actors to be part of a union. But she admits now with the rise of sites like Onlyfans, that idea is dead since many studios are dying.

As of February 2025, Lisa has amassed 4.7 million followers on Instagram, 174,300 followers on TikTok and 40,800 subscribers on her YouTube platform.