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Céline Tran (born 1978 or 1979 is a French actress, writer, martial artist, blogger, and former adult film actress who performed under the stage names Katsuni, and Katsumi. She started her adult film career in 2001, working first in France, then in the United States.
She received numerous awards in the course of the adult career, most notably the AVN Award for Female Foreign Performer of the Year, which she has won three times.
Céline studied for a year at Grenoble Institute of Political Studies. Finding herself ill-suited for political science, she dropped out and then studied literature for three years, envisioning a
Céline Tran (born 1978 or 1979 is a French actress, writer, martial artist, blogger, and former adult film actress who performed under the stage names Katsuni, and Katsumi. She started her adult film career in 2001, working first in France, then in the United States.
She received numerous awards in the course of the adult career, most notably the AVN Award for Female Foreign Performer of the Year, which she has won three times.
Céline studied for a year at Grenoble Institute of Political Studies. Finding herself ill-suited for political science, she dropped out and then studied literature for three years, envisioning a career as a teacher. During her studies, she did gigs as a go-go dancer, which led her to be spotted by a photographer working for Penthouse. The magazine's French branch was then looking for actresses who would appear in its adult pictures. Tran accepted Penthouse's proposal for a shoot as a manner of challenge and because she thought it might be an exciting experience.
Having enjoyed her first experience, she decided to pursue a career in the adult film industry. For two years, she shot movies while continuing her studies, but eventually renounced becoming a teacher and decided to pursue a career as a full-time adult actress.
Having enjoyed her first experience, she decided to pursue a career in the adult film industry. For two years, she shot movies while continuing her studies, but eventually renounced becoming a teacher and decided to pursue a career as a full-time adult actress.
In 2004, she was voted “the French's favorite porn actress” in a readers' poll organized by trade journal Hot Vidéo. She also appeared in several Italian and Spanish productions, working for directors such as Mario Salieri, John Stagliano, and performed alongside Rocco Siffredi.
She shot her first American films in 2003. In 2005, she decided to focus on her work in the United States, whose industry offered better opportunities. During the next few years, she divided her time between France and the US, working mostly in the latter country. In December 2006, she became the first French actress to sign an exclusive performing contract with Digital Playground.
She originally performed using the stage name Katsumi (a common given name in Japan for both sexes), but she was barred by a French judge in Créteil in January 2007 from using the name, after a woman named Mary Katsumi sued over the resemblance to her own name. Although she had informed the websites that she had changed her stage name, many outlets kept referring to her as “Katsumi”. She was eventually sued again a few months later and, in September 2007, was fined €20,000, having been deemed responsible for various violations of the ban.
Tran also modelled for the cover of Marquis magazine, a leader in fetishism. She also continued working and touring as an exotic dancer in nightclubs of various countries.
In July 2008, Tran released My FXXXing Life, a French-language film made for Marc Dorcel Studios. The movie is partly a documentary on Tran's daily life over a year, with a look at her shoots in Las Vegas, on set during filming in San Fernando Valley (known locally as the Valley), along with a bit of her personal life.
In 2008, she was part of the cast of Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, one of the most expensive adult films ever produced. In 2012, she directed another feature for Dorcel, In bed with Katsuni. In 2011, Complex ranked Tran fourteenth on their list of “The Top 100 Hottest Adult Stars Right Now” and third on their list of “The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time”.
On 14 August 2013, Tran announced that she was retiring from the adult industry to focus on “a new kind of entertainment”. She relocated to France and has been using since then her birth name, Céline Tran. A few months after her retirement, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Throughout her career in the adult industry, she won over 30 awards..
Tran has since appeared in several mainstream productions. In 2014, she played a recurring character in the French web fiction Le Visiteur du futur. Also in 2014, she wrote the script for Heart Breaker, the sixth volume of the French comic book horror series DoggyBags. In 2016, she started working as a DJ and writing a blog focusing on cultural and sexual themes. She also underwent three years of martial arts training to secure roles in action films. In 2017, she hosted on Facebook Live, for the French community website NextPLZ a show about sexual-education aimed at youngsters, published a second graphic novel in the DoggyBags collection, and created a YouTube channel dedicated to sports.
Also in 2017, she made her debut in an action feature film by playing the main villainess in the Cambodian film Jailbreak. Screen Anarchy reviewed her performance positively, commenting that she “displayed tremendous ability to handle the choreography and swordplay” and praising her fight scene with the film's female protagonist, Tharoth Sam.
In 2018, her autobiography, titled Ne dis pas que tu aimes ça (Don't say you like it) was released in France. At the same time, she started working as a publisher for Glénat Editions.
In 2022, she is announced in the credits of the series The Witcher: Blood Origin as the stunt double of the actress Michelle Yeoh.
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