Charlotte Sins
Ten nominations. No wins yet. And four years of work most of her peers still won't touch.
Charlotte Sins was born in Las Vegas on August 5, 1996, and raised Mormon — a detail she offers up herself, without embarrassment, as the beginning of the explanation rather than the punchline. She started performing around 2019, and has since built a filmography of more than 160 credits. What separates her from the field isn't a trophy; it's a choice. Since 2022 she has appeared in eight episodes of Transfixed, the trans-focused series, and earned two AVN nominations for that work — the kind of sustained body of trans-inclusive performance that a lot of cis performers in this industry have quietly declined to build. She has ten award nominations across AVN, XBIZ and XRCO. She has not yet won one. In 2025, fans nominated her for a category called Unsung Darling, which is either the industry's bluntest joke or its most accurate piece of criticism.
The Work Nobody Else Was Doing
The Transfixed run is the spine of her career and the thing that ought to be talked about more. In 2023 she was nominated for an AVN for Best Trans Group Sex Scene for "The Physical: Nurses' Retreat," sharing the nomination with Dee Williams, Ella Hollywood, Eva Maxim, Khloe Kay, Jade Venus and Kira Noir — who you'll also find on this site. In 2025 she was nominated again, this time for Best Trans One-on-One Sex Scene for "Family Jewels" opposite Ariel Demure. Eight episodes across four years is not a dabble or a one-off booking; it's a commitment, in a corner of the business that still carries a stigma performers get quietly punished for ignoring. Elsewhere she's shown genuine range: Grinders earned an XRCO nomination for Best Release, shared with Maya Woulfe. Sex Addicts Anonymous: Consequences — A Charlotte Sins Story put her name in the title and got an AVN nomination for its three-way scene with Codey Steele and Nathan Bronson. Fans nominated her for Favorite Female Porn Star in 2023. She played Kim in Grinders and took a lead in Broken Butterfly: The Perfect Shade of Blu. The résumé is deeper than the trophy case suggests, which is exactly the problem worth putting to her.
More Than a Public Persona
Sitting down with Bree Mills for Adult Time's podcast, Sins gave the most complete account she's put on the record — and she called the episode "Born For Porn," which tells you how much apologizing she planned to do. She grew up Mormon. She also grew up with a queer parent, which is a combination that produces a specific kind of childhood and a specific kind of adult. She talks about her own early sexual self-discovery without flinching, about her teenage crushes on Shakira and Prince, and about writing letters to Sasha Grey — actual fan letters, from a girl who would go on to do the job. She's an advocate for PrEP and for people asking out loud for what they actually want. The phrase she used for her own trajectory was the Mormon-to-pornstar pipeline, and the interesting thing is that she says it as an observation rather than a confession. She isn't running from where she came from. She just doesn't think it's the tragedy the audience expects.
Presence
Sins is 5'9" and reads as exactly that on camera — she takes up space without performing dominance. But the presence people actually respond to is verbal: she's funny, unguarded, and completely unbothered by questions that would make other performers reach for a publicist. Fans nominated her for Favorite Female Porn Star in 2023, and they didn't do it because a studio told them to.
Range
Two AVN nominations in trans categories, an XRCO Best Release nomination for Grinders, a three-way scene nomination, a lead in Broken Butterfly: The Perfect Shade of Blu, a named showcase, and more than 160 credits across four years. She's been nominated by AVN, XBIZ and XRCO — three separate organizations with three different tastes. Nobody has managed to reduce her to a category, partly because she keeps taking the work other people won't.
Momentum
Still shooting Transfixed into 2026. Still on the AVN Expo floor. Still, as of this year, nominated. The interesting tension in her career right now is that she's built a real body of work and real critical attention without ever getting the win that converts one into the other — and she's kept going anyway, for six years, which requires something the trophy wouldn't have given her. Whether the win comes is genuinely open. That's a live story, not a settled one.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this performer?
Charlotte Sins is an American adult film performer, born in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 5, 1996 and raised Mormon. She entered the industry around 2019 and has since built a filmography of more than 160 credits. She's best known for her long-running work on the trans-focused series Transfixed, for which she's received two AVN nominations, and for features including Grinders and Broken Butterfly: The Perfect Shade of Blu. She has ten award nominations across AVN, XBIZ and XRCO.
Where is this performer from?
Las Vegas, Nevada, born there in the summer of 1996 — and raised Mormon, which in that city is a more common combination than outsiders assume. She's spoken openly about that upbringing and about growing up with a queer parent, and about what it was like to hold both of those things at once. It's a background that makes the eventual career look, depending on your angle, either wildly improbable or completely inevitable. She leans toward the second reading.
How did this performer get started?
She began performing around 2019, at twenty-three. Her own account of the road there — given at length on Adult Time's podcast — starts much earlier: a Mormon childhood, a queer parent, early self-discovery she describes without apology, and fan letters written to Sasha Grey by a girl who admired her before she'd ever considered the job herself. She titled that episode "Born For Porn," which is her framing, not a headline someone hung on her.
What is this performer known for?
Most substantively, for Transfixed — eight episodes since 2022 and two AVN nominations, one for the group scene "The Physical: Nurses' Retreat" and one for "Family Jewels" opposite Ariel Demure. That's one of the most sustained trans-inclusive bodies of work by a cis performer of her generation, and it's the thing her peers notice. She's also known for Grinders, which earned an XRCO nomination for Best Release, for her lead in Broken Butterfly: The Perfect Shade of Blu, and for a fan-voted Favorite Female Porn Star nomination in 2023.
Has this performer won any awards?
Not yet — and that's a more interesting fact than a win would be. She has ten nominations on record: six from AVN, three from XBIZ, and one from XRCO. They include Best Trans Group Sex Scene for Transfixed in 2023, Best Three-Way Sex Scene for Sex Addicts Anonymous: Consequences — A Charlotte Sins Story, Best Release for Grinders from XRCO, Best Trans One-on-One Sex Scene for Transfixed in 2025, and fan-voted nominations for Favorite Female Porn Star in 2023 and Unsung Darling in 2025. Ten times the industry has looked at her work and said this one. Ten times someone else's name got read out.
Does this performer work behind the camera as well?
Not on the public record — her credits are as a performer, and inflating that would do her a disservice. What she does have is a voice: she's spoken at length and unusually candidly in long-form interviews about her upbringing, the industry, and sexual health, including advocating publicly for PrEP. That's a different kind of work than directing, and in her case it's the more distinctive one. Whether she wants the chair is a good question to ask her.
What makes this performer a compelling interview subject?
Because she's the one who kept showing up. Ten nominations without a win is a hard thing to carry in a business that measures worth in trophies, and she's carried it for six years while quietly building a body of work — the Transfixed run especially — that a lot of performers avoid for reasons they'd rather not say out loud. She's also just an exceptional talker: raised Mormon, raised by a queer parent, a fan who wrote letters to Sasha Grey and then went and did the job, and entirely uninterested in framing any of it as damage. She has a thesis about her own life and she's willing to defend it.
Where can viewers follow this performer’s journey?
She's on Instagram at @charlottesinssfw and on X at @Charlottesuxxx, and she appears regularly at industry events including the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. Her episode of the Adult Time Podcast with Bree Mills is the fullest account she's given in her own words. And her full conversation is here on The Making Of A Spiegler Girl, where she appears among the series' interview subjects.
