Briana Banks is a Porn Star from Germany. She was born on May 21, 1978 in Munich, Bavaria. Her real name is Briana Bany. Her mother is American and her father is German. Her family moved to Britain when she was aged four, then to the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley, California when she was seven. Briana started modeling as a teenager to make some money, even appearing on the cover of Teen Magazine! Banks and her 14-year-old sister moved out of their mother's house when Briana was 16, and she got custody of her sister when she was 18. She made pizzas and worked at an arts-and-craft store, was a file clerk at an insurance company and a secretary at a cosmetics company prior to becoming involved in the porn industry. Briana Banks became a nude model in 1999, revealing one of the finest pairs of double D's and began performing in explicit hardcore movies at age 21, using the name Mirage in August 1999, but began calling herself "Briana Banks" in 2000, after having the first of two breast enlargement operations.