Sunny Leone was born on May 13, 1981 in Sarnia, Ontario to a Sikh family who belongs from Indian Punjab. She was born with the name Karen Malhotra, Sunny was her best nick name and later in 2001 she was given name as Leone which is given by Bob Guccione, former owner of Penthouse magazine when she was named as Penthouse Pet of the month for March 2001.
Sunny Leone’s father was born in Tibet but he was raised in Delhi who was died due to cancer and her mother was from sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh. She was very active young girl and used to play street hockey with the boys and enjoying ice skating on a nearby frozen lake with boys.
She was enrolled in a Catholic school and there she had her first kiss when she was 11 years. Her parents moved to Fort Gratiot, Michigan then Lake Forest, California. She lost her virginity to a basketball player when she was only 16 and discovered that she was bisexual at 18 years. She graduated from high school in 1999 and enrolled in college.
Sunny Leone first worked at German bakery and tax and retirement firm. She was introduced to John Stevens an agent to Jay Allen, a photographer for Penthouse magazine by her friend who was exotic dancer. She posed for the Penthouse magazine and also appeared in other magazines including Cheri, Mystique Magazine, High Sociey, Swank, AVN Online, Leg World, Club International and Lawrider and many others.
In 2003, Sunny Leone was declared Penthouse pet of the year 2003 and also appeared in movie Penthouse Pets in paradise with Tera Patrick and Kyla cole. She then signed a three year contract with Vivid Entertainment and entered into the porn industry. She was appeared mostly in lesbian scenes.
Sunny Leone first movie was released in December 2005 with the name of Sunny and her next movie Virtual Vivid Girl Sunny Leone won AVN Award within the four days after release. She was appeared with girls in her movies till May 2007. In May 2007 she again signed with Vivid Entertainment for six new movies and she agreed to work with male on camera but only with her fiancé, Matt Erikson. She was appeared in Sunny Loves Matt, which earned great repute in the P- – n industry and she was selected as Female Performer of the year 2009.
Later she started working with other male actors also including Tommy Gunn, Charles Dera, James Deen and Voodoo. In 2008 she started doing his working for his own production house and “The Dark Side of the Sun” was her first indwependent production released in March 2009. It was also said that she wanted to work in Bollywood.
She earned many awards as XBIZ Award of Web Babe of the Year 2008, Best All Girls Group Sex scene AVN Award of 2010 and also Web Starlet of the year 2010.