Nikki Benz is the stage name of a Canadian pornographic actress and Penthouse Pet who was selected as the 2011 Pet of the Year. Benz resides in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Nikki Benz entered the adult film industry by contacting an adult film director shortly before her 21st birthday. She signed with Pleasure Productions in January 2003 and made her first on-screen sex scene in Strap On Sally 20 with Gina Lynn

Gina Lynn

Gina Lynn is a Puerto Rican pornographic actress.- Biography :Lynn was born to Puerto Rican and Italian parents in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and grew up in Jackson Township, New Jersey; she currently resides and operates Gina Lynn Productions in Reading, Pennsylvania...

, and her first boy-girl scene with Ben English

Ben English

Ben English is an English pornographic actor. He is also the founder and owner of the adult talent agency LA Direct Models. Hay "retired" from performing in the late 2000s after appearing in nearly 800 movies. Since then he has appeared in several movies, thus proving his retirement is not final...

 in The Sweetest Thing. After completing her contract, Benz moved to Los Angeles and signed with Jill Kelly

Jill Kelly

Jill Kelly is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, director and producer.- Career :Over the course of her 16-year career, Kelly has appeared in over 600 pornographic movies...

 Productions in September 2004.
Benz signed a contract with TeraVision in September 2005.

Benz has been featured in many popular adult magazines including Penthouse

Penthouse (magazine)

Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...

, High Society

High Society (magazine)

High Society is a U.S. pornographic magazine. In addition to hardcore pictorials of nude models, it also has feature articles and occasional celebrity pictorials.-History:High Society was first published in May 1976....

, Genesis

Genesis (magazine)

Genesis is a men's pornographic magazine which began publication in 1973. It exclusively features female stars of the adult film industry. Billing itself as "The Home of Porn's Hottest Stars", Genesis features pictorials, exclusive columns by adult film stars, interviews, feature articles, movie...

, Fox, OUI

Oui (magazine)

Oui is a men's adult pornographic magazine published in the USA and featuring explicit nude photographs of models, with full page pin-ups, centerfolds, interviews and other articles, and cartoons.- Playboy years :...

, Cheri, Hustler

Hustler

Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at men and published in the United States. It was first published in 1974 by Larry Flynt. It was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter which was cheap advertising for his strip club businesses at the time. The magazine grew from a shaky start to...

, Club

Club (magazine)

Club is a monthly American pornographic magazine which is a spin-off publication of the United Kingdom's Club International. Club features sexually oriented articles, video reviews, and pictorials that include hardcore pornography, masturbation, dildo usage, and lesbianism.During the early and mid...

and Club International. She is the Penthouse Pet of the Month for April 2010, and was also the magazine's cover girl and feature in the May 2008 issue. Benz was named Penthouse Pet of the Year 2011.

She hosted a show on KSEX

KSEX

KSEX , also known as, KSEXradio, was an online radio station which discussed topics on sex and pornography, and was one of the only adult Internet radio stations specializing in news and current events in the United States pornography industry...

 called Contract Superstars alongside Lacie Heart

Lacie Heart

-Biography:Heart grew up on a ranch in Templeton, California, and studied ballet as a child. She danced at a Canoga Park strip club's amateur night at age 19 on a whim. While she was there she was recruited by and subsequently met with agent Derek Hay of L.A. Direct Models in August 2005...

, Ashley Steele, Stormy Daniels

Stormy Daniels

Stormy Daniels , also known as Stormy Waters and simply Stormy, is an American pornographic actress, screenwriter, and director. She chose her stage name to reflect her love of Mötley Crüe, whose bassist, Nikki Sixx, named his daughter Storm...

 and Tyler Faith

Tyler Faith

Tyler Faith is an American pornographic actress.Tyler Faith has been an adult actress since 2002, working briefly for Pleasure Productions and then as a contract performer for Jill Kelly Productions where she appeared in over 100 scenes...

, but quit citing "time constraints". Along with Lisa Ann

Lisa Ann

Lisa Ann is an American pornographic actress.- Career :Lisa Ann was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. She began erotic dancing in 1990 to pay her way through college, where she became a certified dental assistant. In July 1993, she became an adult actress, but quit in 1997 due to an AIDS scare...

 and Sean Michaels

Sean Michaels

Sean Michaels is a pornographic actor and director. He moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in order to begin his career in the porn industry, in which he has worked since 1985...

, Benz co-hosted the XRCO Awards in April 2010.

Benz has made several appearances on the FoxSports.com show Cubed, playing a wise-cracking, sports-savvy cleaning lady.
She appeared in the dramatic film My Trip Back to the Dark Side

My Trip Back to the Dark Side (film)

My Trip Back to the Dark Side is an upcoming drama film directed by Shane Stanley. It is the sequel to My Trip to the Dark Side. It stars Jason Pace, Sean Kanan, Betsy Russell, Courtney Gains, Sean Young, Alisa Reyes, Marlon Young, and Ron Masak.-Plot:...

, which was directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Shane Stanley

Shane Stanley

Shane Stanley is a multi-Emmy Award winning filmmaker best known for Executive Producing Gridiron Gang starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for Sony Pictures and directing Bret Michaels music videos supporting the smash hit show Rock of Love and Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It...

. The film also stars Jason Pace, Sean Young

Sean Young

Sean Young is an American actress, best known for her performance in films from the 1980s such as Blade Runner, Dune, and No Way Out.-Early life:...

, Courtney Gains

Courtney Gains

-Life and career:Gains achieved success during the 1980s with a variety of roles in films such as Children of the Corn, Hardbodies, Lust in the Dust, Back to the Future, Can't Buy Me Love, Colors,Wing Commander III, The 'Burbs and Memphis Belle...

 and Betsy Russell

Betsy Russell

Betsy Russell is an American actress who is best known for her role in Private School, and as Jill Tuck, the ex-wife of the Jigsaw Killer in the Saw film series.-Early life:...

 from the Saw franchise. The movie is scheduled for release in 2012.

Awards

• 2006 AVN Award nominee – Best Couples Sex Scene, Video – Take No Prisoners
• 2006 AVN Award nominee – Best Supporting Actress, Video – Jack's Teen America 2
• 2006 AVN Award nominee – Best Tease Performance – Take No Prisoners
• 2008 AVN Award nominee – Best Three-way Sex Scene – Meet the Fuckers 6
• 2008 F.A.M.E. Award nominee – Hottest Body
• 2010 XBIZ Award
  XBIZ Award
  XBIZ Awards are given annually to honor "individuals, companies, performers and products that play an essential part in the growth and success of adult entertainment". Organized by the adult industry trade magazine XBIZ, the awards were first given in 2003...
  
   nominee – Pornstar Website of the Year
• 2010 XBIZ Award nominee – Female Performer of the Year
• 2010 XBIZ Award nominee – Crossover Star of the Year
• 2010 AVN Award nominee – Best All-Girl Three-Way Sex Scene – Penthouse: Slave for a Night
• 2010 F.A.M.E. Award nominee - Hottest Body, Favorite Female Starlet, Favorite Breasts

External links

• Nikki Benz 2011 Pet of the Year Issue on Penthouse Magazine
• Adult DVD Talk audio interview
• Nikki Benz on Fox Sports

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