Kayden Kross

American pornographic actress

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2025 Kayden Kross wins AVN Award for Best Directing Portfolio – Narrative, highlighting her achievements in film directing within the adult entertainment industry
2025 Nominated for AVN Best Directing Portfolio – Narrative
2024 Nominated for AVN Best Directing Portfolio – Narrative and NightMoves Best Non-Feature Director
2023 Wins AVN Outstanding Director – Individual Work for 'Drift', along with XRCO and NightMoves Director awards
2022 Wins XBIZ Director of the Year, AVN Best Directing – Narrative Production for 'Psychosexual', and XRCO and NightMoves Director awards
2022 Inducted into XRCO Award Hall of Fame
2021 Receives AVN Awards for Director of the Year, Best Directing – Drama, and Best Screenplay – Drama for 'Muse', along with XBIZ and XRCO Director awards
2020 Wins AVN Director of the Year and Best Director – Dramatic Production for 'Drive', XBIZ Director of the Year – Body of Work, NightMoves Best Feature Director, and XRCO Best Director awards
2019 Launched Deeper, a primary website in the Vixen Media Group's portfolio.
2019 Inducted into AVN Award Hall of Fame
2019 Played Morella in the film Verotika
2019 Wins multiple awards including AVN Director of the Year, XBIZ Director of the Year – Feature, Urban X Director of the Year, NightMoves Best Feature Director, and XRCO Best Director – Features
2018 Wins AVN Award for Best Director – Non-Feature for 'Sacrosanct'
2016 Appeared as herself in Enter the Samurai
2015 Appeared in the music video 'We Need a Gimmick' by the band Nekrogoblikon.
2015 Acted in Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance, portraying the characters Milena and Jennifer
2015 Kayden Kross wins XBIZ Award for Director of the Year – Non-Feature Release for 'Misha Cross Wide Open'
2014 Appeared in The Hungover Games as Chastity the Topless Blonde
2014 Won XBIZ Award for Best Scene – Feature Movie for Code of Honor
January 2014 Kross gave birth to a daughter with her partner Manuel Ferrara.
2013 Appeared in the featurette 'Chicks 'N Guns' on the Breaking Bad 5th season DVD, playing a stripper in the episode 'Gliding Over All'.
2013 Received XBIZ Award for Best Scene – All-Girl for the film Mothers & Daughters
2013 Starred in the film Blue Dream, playing the character Tara
2013 Manuel Ferrara asked Kross to no longer perform with other men in adult films, establishing an agreement where he continues to work with other women but maintains professional boundaries.
January 2013 Started hosting the weekly call-in show Krossfire on Playboy Radio.
2012 Kross published her short story 'Plank' in the Harper Perennial short story collection 'Forty Stories: New Writing'.
2012 Kayden Kross appeared in Breaking Bad bonus DVD feature 'Chicks 'n' Guns' as the character Kristall
2012 Hosted the Xbiz Awards for the second time, appearing alongside Jessica Drake and on the AVN red carpet with Jesse Jane and Dave Navarro.
2012 Appeared in the music video 'No One Survives' by the band Nekrogoblikon.
2012 Began portraying a main character in the second season of Tucky Williams' lesbian-themed web series Girl/Girl Scene.
2012 Won AVN Award for Hottest Sex Scene (Fan Award) for the film Babysitters 2
February 2012 Appeared on the Stossel show with conservative pundit Wendy Murphy to discuss proposed California legislation requiring condom use in adult film production.
2011 Kayden Kross was cast as Tara in Gregory Hatanaka's drama Blue Dream and briefly co-hosted a videocast called Kayden's Review on Triggla TV with comedian Dane Hanson.
2011 Won AVN Awards for Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene and Wildest Sex Scene (Fan Award) for the film Body Heat. Also received XBIZ Award for Acting Performance of the Year (Female)
2010 Kayden Kross won multiple adult entertainment awards including Erotixxx Award for Best U.S. Actress, NightMoves Award for Best Female Performer (Fan's Choice), and Venus Award for Best Actress International
2010 Starred in the AVN Best Feature 'The 8th Day' and portrayed Elin Nordegren in 'Tyler's Wood'.
2010 Hosted the AVN Awards show alongside Kirsten Price and comedian Dave Attell.
2010 Starred in the movie The Smiths, which topped sales charts.
September 2010 Featured as Penthouse magazine's 'Cover Girl' for the second time.
January 1 2010 Signed an exclusive multi-year contract with Digital Playground.

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