In its ’80s heyday, domestically produced pornography employed around 1,000 with mostly campy sex films often filmed in the great Grecian… outdoors. These sex videos were usually dubbed straight into English for export abroad.
The advent of the Internet and the … collapse of the “Iron Curtain” made “Greek-made” porn extinct for several years. Still, there are the “natural talents” and bright sparks despite the doom and gloom…

Best woman

Julia Alexandratou is a Greek celebrity-model-cum-porn star. Strikingly beautiful from a young age with modeling work from the age of four, Alexandratou could have been the 21st century Greek response to Brigitte Bardot, but instead she chose to overexpose herself through doing anything she was offered, from B-grade singing appearances in provincial towns to two controversial, but slickly made, sex tapes in 2010 and 2011.

Best straight man

Star Kenzo began his career when he was spotted by an agent at a martial arts contest contest, when he was just 16 years old. One thing led to another, and soon he was a porn star. He has admitted to taking viagra and other pills in order to achieve the best possible “performance”.

Best gay man

Dean Monroe is an iconic gay porn star who has starred in more than 30 hardcore movies. He fashioned his surname after Marilyn Monroe… but he was born Constantinos Stathis in Athens in July 1972. He lives in London but comes to Greece to take part in shows and hob-nose with the “local talent”.

Best transexual

Jenny Hiloudaki, born Ioannis in 1968, was a transexual model, brothel owner and porn star. She attracted Greek media attention after an affair with a local prosecutor on the island of Rhodes who gave up his family and position because of her — only to be dumped. Now, the retired porn star says she hates sex and leads a quiet life.

Best retro male

Kostas Gousgounis is a legendary figure of the 1970s and 1980s and the mostly niche Greek pornography “cottage industry” owes a great deal to him. He preferred tongue-in-cheek sexual comedy with films such as Sex… 13 beaufort! and Kinky from Birth.

Best retro female

Anna Fonsou is known for mainstream films from the golden era of Greek cinema in the 1960s, however, she shocked local audiences in the 1970s due to her participation in a handful of soft-core movies.

Best director

Omiros Efstratiadis has more than 100 films to his name, however, he began in the 1960s with soft-porn films before moving on to the mainstream with shows on Greek TV. Later, he even joined the political scene as a member of the right-wing anti-austerity Independent Greeks (AN.EL) party.