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Karenjit "Karen" Kaur Vohra, also known as Sunny Leone, is a Canadian American actress, model, and former pornographic actress. Born on May 13, 1981, in Sarnia, Ontario, she was raised by Sikh Indian Punjabi parents and attended Catholic school. She moved to Fort Gratiot, Michigan, and later to Lake Forest, California, where she had her first kiss at 11, lost her virginity at 16, and discovered her bisexuality at 18.

Leone's career began with working at a German bakery, a Jiffy Lube store, and later a tax and retirement firm. She was also studying to become a nurse. In 2003, she was named Penthouse Pet of the Year and starred in the video Penthouse Pets in Paradise alongside Tera Patrick and Kyla Cole. In 2005, she signed a three-year contract with Vivid Entertainment, transitioning into hardcore pornography, stating that she would only do lesbian scenes. Her first movie released was titled Sunny, released in December 2005.

In 2007, Leone agreed to do her first boy/girl scenes with her fiancé, Matt Erikson, and underwent breast augmentation. She shot her first movie under the new contract titled Sunny Loves Matt, which won her first AVN Award (Best Interactive DVD). She followed up her first boy-girl title with The Other Side of Sunny in October 2008, which would be the last time she would perform with Erikson.

In 2009, Vivid released her only adult movie performing with multiple male actors, titled "Sunny B/G Adventure." Her final release under contract with Vivid – Undress Me made her exclusive to performing with just one male actor, Daniel Weber, who subsequently became her husband.

In August 2009, she announced the launch of her own studio, Sunlust Pictures, with Daniel Weber as her partner. With her new venture, Leone announced her plans to write, direct, and create her own brand of adult movies with Vivid Entertainment as her distributor. Her first independent production, The Dark Side of the Sun, was released in March 2009, and she held a casting call in Las Vegas for her second independent production titled Sunny Slumber Party, released in September 2009. She followed up with three other self-produced features; Gia Portrait of a Porn Star (2010), Roleplay (2011), and Goddess (2012), which featured her first anal sex scene.

No longer exclusive to Vivid, Leone began working with other studios and performers since 2009. She leveraged her online popularity by striking deals with firms like PPPcard, AdultPokerParty.com, Brickhouse, Flirt4Free, Totemcash, and Imlive to sell and distribute her content over the Internet and other media. She won the "Web Babe of the Year" at the 2008 Xbiz Awards. Her websites and business interests are run under her banner company Leone L.L.C. She indicated that 80 percent of the traffic on her website and 60 percent of her revenue comes from India.

Leone has been part of the Vivid Comedy Tour, modelled for the Vivid Footwear collection, participated in events like the Vivid/Club Jenna Lingerie Bowl and Vivid's Hot Rod Night. She also launched a pocket pal moulded to her vagina in 2006 and released the Sunny Leone Exciter vibrator in 2008. Control MFG used Leone's image along with other Vivid girls to market their line of skateboards. She is paired with Gab Ekoe, one of the Team Control riders. She also indicated that she plans to launch her own line of lingerie and other Sunny-branded products including a diamond jewellery line.

In conclusion, Karenjit "Karen" Kaur Vohra is a talented actress, model, and former pornographic actress. She has played roles in independent mainstream events, films, and television series, and has been involved in activism campaigns and promoting animal welfare..

In 2009, Apple approved an iPhone application featuring a collection of non-nude photos, videos, and a porn star-penned blog, making it the first officially sanctioned app featuring a porn actor. By February 2010, the app had been removed from the store. In 2013, Leone announced her retirement from the adult industry, stating that she is lucky that the audience is accepting her.

Leone's first mainstream appearance was in 2005 as a red carpet reporter for the MTV Awards on MTV India. She has also appeared in films like The Girl Next Door, Ja Rule's video "Livin' It Up," and Kidd Skilly. Other credits include E!'s Wild On! and the Sundance Film Festival's After Dark.

Leone was a contestant in the Fox reality show My Bare Lady 2: Open for Business, where she was given classes and training on pitching investment ideas and competing for success in the business world. She was part of a Showtime documentary detailing the production of a movie and the personal lives of its stars.

Leone expressed interest in a career in Bollywood but felt uncomfortable with the roles she would have played. She was courted by Indian directors but chose Deepal Shaw due to his inability to afford her $1 million acting fee. In 2008, she announced her role in Pirates Blood, an action adventure movie shot in Oman. She also appeared in Middle Men, an indie feature about the birth of the online porn industry.

Leone has made appearances at various events, including the 2002 SEMA International Auto Salon, Extreme Autofest Pomona, and the 2006 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. She has been featured in mainstream publications like FHM, Front, and Jane magazine.

Sunny Leone, an Indian actress, gained fame in the Indian reality series Bigg Boss 5 in 2011. Despite her porn star status, she refused to reveal it and claimed to be a model and TV star in America for the last decade. Her Twitter feed gained 8,000 new followers in just two days, and Google reported searches for her experiencing a "breakout." She was evicted on Day 91.

During her stay in the Bigg Boss house, she was approached by Bollywood film-maker Mahesh Bhatt to offer her the lead role in Dino Morea's Jism 2. She accepted, leading to discussions with Bhatt's production house, Fish Eye Network, and Leone's agent. Leone entered Bollywood in 2012 with Jism 2, which had weak critical reception but was commercially successful. She signed her second Bollywood film, Ragini MMS 2, and featured in an item number in Sanjay Gupta and Ekta Kapoor's 2013 film Shootout at Wadala.

In 2017, Leone attended an event promotion of Raees and was voted as "Indian Affairs Actress of the year 2018" by the Network 7 Media Group jury. She also released an auto biopic titled Karenjit Kaur – The Untold Story of Sunny Leone, an original web-series by ZEE5, on July 16, 2018. The series narrates her journey from a middle-class girl in Canada to becoming India's most Googled celebrity, and is available in Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi languages.

Sunny Leone is a talented actress known for her roles in films such as Jatt & Juliet, Veeramadevi, and Sweet Dreams. She began filming for the Hindi remake of Jatt & Juliet in January 2018 and stars in Veeramadevi, a Tamil period war film directed by V. C. Vadivudaiyan.

Sweet Dreams is a collection of 12 short stories written by Leone, published digitally as an e-book and launched on April 22, 2016, by Juggernaut Books through their mobile app. The work was well-received by the Hindustan Times, which commented on its relentlessly optimistic characters and world. Leone explained that the book was written from the perspective of both men and females, but mainly intended for women.

Sweet Dreams was Elle's Book of the Week in April 2016, and Bollywood Hungama noted that there was no real contribution from Leone beyond her picture on the cover.

Leone has also been involved in activism, including participating in No More Bush Girls in 2004, shooting a promotional video for Declare Yourself, and releasing a public service announcement on behalf of the ASACP. In 2013, she posed for a PETA ad campaign encouraging dog and cat owners to have their pets spayed and neutered. In an interview for PETA India, Leone stated that every single dog should be spayed and neutered to prevent the cycle of homeless dogs or cats and to keep them healthy. PETA named her their "Person of the Year" in 2016.

Sunny Leone, a Canadian actress, became an American citizen in June 2006 and later became a resident of India in 2012. She has a strong interest in health and fitness, modeling fitness clothing for Fantasy Fitness and maintaining a strong connection to Sikh traditions. Leone has been married to American actor, producer, and entrepreneur Daniel Weber since 2011, and they adopted their first child, Nisha Kaur Weber, from Latur, a village in Maharashtra, in July 2017. Actress Sherlyn Chopra confirmed the news on social media in July 2017.

On March 4, 2018, Leone and her husband announced the birth of their twin boys, born through surrogacy. They moved into a new home in Mumbai, Maharashtra on Ganesh Chaturthi, which took place on September 13, 2018.

Controversies have arisen between Leone and her husband, including a police first information report filed against her in May 2015 after a woman in Mumbai, India, complained that her website, sunnyleone.com, was destroying Indian culture. Thane police's cyber cell at Ramnagar booked her for sections 292, 292A, 294, which could have landed her a term in jail, a fine, or both. Senior police inspector JK Sawant stated that they cannot block the website, but will ask the operator to remove objectionable content.

Producer and distributor Bharat Patel has accused Leone of not returning a signing fee she had taken to do a special dance number for his film Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi after her role was cancelled. Leone has always maintained a strong connection to Sikh traditions, even if more in theory than in practice.

In summary, Sunny Leone is a multi-talented actress who has been involved in various relationships and has faced controversy in the industry. She has been criticized for her website, SunnyLeone.com, and for not returning a signing fee she had taken to do a special dance number for his film Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi.