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“She’s an amazing actor and an amazing sex performer.” —Casey Calvert
surprising to see the amount of accolades and accomplishments she has racked up.”
Noir added another piece of history to her glorious night, when she captured the Best Supporting Actress trophy for the third consecutive year—marking another industry first.
She achieved the three-peat for her performance as Alyssa in Casey Calvert’s twisted all-girl drama Sorrow Bay for Lust Cinema.
In 2022, Noir claimed the same award for her role in the Grand Reel-winning Casey: A True Story for Adult Time; and in 2021, she took home that trophy for her dramatic turn in Primary, which was the first feature Calvert ever directed.
“I’ve loved working with Kira from the day I met her,” Calvert tells AVN. “I think she is one of the most talented actors in this industry. She’s so brilliant, so beautiful; and she’s an amazing actor and an amazing sex performer.
“She absolutely deserved to win Female Performer of the Year. That was so incredible and I was so proud of Kira for her win in Sorrow Bay.
“She worked so hard on that. I asked a lot of her in that movie and she never complained. She always brings her A game.”
Calvert reveals that she was so confident in Noir’s ability that while casting Sorrow Bay she offered her a choice of two characters.
“I knew I was going to put Kira in it, so I said to her, ‘I have two roles for you and you can choose which one you want.’ Once she saw that one of the characters dies, she said, ‘I want to be the dead girl!’ That’s my Kira.”
The 2022 Director of the Year Ricky Greenwood knows Noir’s talent, too. It’s why he cast her as the lead of his upcoming action movie Machine Gunner, which will be released by Digital Playground this year.
Greenwood says during casting discussions for the role of Nicole Ransom, who leads black ops for the U.S. government, that he brought up Noir not only because he knows she can act, but also because of the physicality the role required.
“When I think of Kira, I think of Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 or Sigourney Weaver in Alien. ... She did some amazing stunts and she looks bad ass. She looks like an action star from the 80s.” Noir’s mission is to apprehend a man that deserted the U.S. government with a bunch of
secrets.
“And the twist was, that was her ex,” Noir says. “So she gets to go in with her friends and try
to find him. And that was just a lot. I’ve never tried being an action hero in anything before. And it thankfully lined up right in a time of my life where I’ve been working out a lot more.
“So I was carrying heavy guns and running around the forest and I feel like my arms and muscles looked really good. So I hope I did the part well...”
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