Kaylani Lei


Kaylani Lei is an American pornographic actress.

Early life

Lei was born in Singapore and spent most of her childhood in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States. She is of Chinese and Filipino descent but does not speak any Tagalog.

Career

Lei danced at the Olympic Garden in Las Vegas prior to her porn career. She is a former contract performer for pornographic production studio Wicked Pictures.
Outside her adult film work, she was the host of a radio show on KSEX, Me So Horny with Kaylani Lei. Lei appeared on the Howard Stern radio show, and she has made appearances on Playboy TV. In 2007, she was the co star of the Cinemax series The Erotic Traveler, as "Allison Kraft" - an apprentice erotic photographer. She appeared in one episode of the 2011 series Chemistry as a Japanese businesswoman named Yokushi Shimato.
According to the Internet Adult Film Database, she has worked in over 200 films, including Beautiful, Kaylani Unleashed and Space Nuts for Wicked.
In 2010, Lei appeared alongside fellow Wicked Pictures contract star Alektra Blue in the Free Speech Coalition's "All-Star Anti-Piracy PSA" on the topic of copyright infringement of adult content.
In 2011, Complex magazine ranked her at #24 in their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time".
Lei has also appeared several times on the TV series Zane's Sex Chronicles and in the 2013 documentary Risky Business: A Look Inside America's Adult Film Industry.

Personal life

Lei dated Byron Kelleher, a New Zealand rugby union halfback, from 2005 to 2006. She lived with him in New Zealand until June 2006.

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