Page 79 - AVN Magazine May 2023

“She’s like naturally one of the nicest and greatest talents in the history of porn.”
—Mark Spiegler
Noir calls that distinction “really bittersweet.”
“Of course I’m just over the moon about it and couldn’t be happier but it also comes with the asterisk that it took a long time for a Black woman to win it and there have been a lot of Black women before me who have also been incredible performers that it would’ve been nice to have recognized,” Kira says. “So I feel like I have to acknowledge that.”
She says she watched the replay of her victory, cherishing the moment and some of the reactions from her peers.
“I love that the camera looked at September Reign for a second,” Kira says. “She’s beautiful and seeing her smiling and being really happy for me made me really happy, too.
“I really love this industry and I’m really happy I’ve been in it for as long as I have. It’s been a privilege to be able to do this type of job, especially for this long. So I’m really glad that I have people like that in my corner.”
Noir earned the respect of her industry peers many years ago because of the way she carries herself both on and off the set, according to her longtime agent Mark Spiegler.
“She’s like naturally one of the nicest and greatest talents in the history of porn,” Spiegler tells AVN.
The 28-year-old performer—a former stripper at Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club in East St. Louis who was born in California and grew up in Nashville—made her boy/girl scene debut in February 2015 with Damon Dice. Armed with a range that includes being one of the top anal performers in adult in addition to her acting prowess, she has racked up more than 580 performing credits and numerous accolades in the past eight years.
Noir considers Spiegler, who has represented eight of the past 10 AVN Female Performer of the Year winners, a father figure.
“I’m incredibly lucky to have been at his agency for so long,” she says. “I’m pretty sure I joined in late 2015 so a couple of months after I started professional porn...
“I’ve had zero problems. I feel really safe with him. He also taught me a lot of good habits. I think it’s because of him that I’m able to do anything well. Like whenever I fuck up it’s my fault,. Whenever I do something good it’s what Spiegler taught me.”
Noir co-hosted the all-digital AVN Awards Show in 2021; she was the July 2018 Vixen Angel, January 2019 Girlsway Girl of the Month; November 2019 Cherry of the Month for CherryPimps; and named a Fleshlight Girl in 2022. Noir also has represented Pornhub as a brand ambassador for the past three years; and now she’s won a total of six AVN Awards.
“Kira has been nothing short of a phenom in the industry,” a Brazzers rep tells AVN. “It’s been incredible to see Kira’s meteoric rise—from her first scenes with us in 2017 to being crowned AVN Performer of the Year.
“She has been a huge fan favorite and mainstay on ZZ since the beginning, and it’s not