Céline Tran

About

Céline Tran (born 1978 or 1979) is a French actress, writer, martial artist, blogger, and former pornographic film actress who performed under the stage names Katsuni and Katsumi. She started her adult film career in 2001, working first in France, then in the United States.
She received numerous awards in the course of the adult career, most notably the AVN Award for Female Foreign Performer of the Year which she has won three times.
She retired from pornography in 2013 and returned to France to pursue a career in mainstream entertainment under her real name. Tran has appeared in films such as the French comedy Porn in the Hood (2012), and Cambodian action film Jailbreak (2017). She also released an autobiography, Ne dis pas que tu aimes ça, in 2018.

== Early life ==
Tran is of French/Vietnamese heritage. Her father is Vietnamese and her mother’s family is French.
She studied for a year at Grenoble Institute of Political Studies. Finding herself ill-suited for political science, she dropped out and then studied literature for three years, envisioning a career as a teacher. During her studies, she did gigs as a go-go dancer, which led her to be spotted by a photographer working for Penthouse…