

Grey was the G4tv host in a two-hour documentary on Sexpo Australia for Attack of the Show! in 2009. In 2009 she was voted number one on Genesis magazine's 11th annual edition of its "Porn's Hot 100" issue and in the 10th edition in 2008 she was placed sixth. Scott of The New York Times described Grey's pornography career as "distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it". Grey also appeared in Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, which won in 15 categories at the 26th AVN Awards ceremony in 2009, making it the most awarded film ever at the ceremony.

In 2008 Grey announced that she would represent herself in the adult industry through her agency L.A. Grey starred in Dave Navarro's film Broken, for which she won the Best High End All-Sex Film AVN award. In 2008, she became the youngest woman ever to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award and also won an award in the category "Best Oral Sex Scene" for Babysitters at the 25th AVN Awards. The show was also criticized for editing the interview to increase its dramatic value. There was speculation the show was heavily edited and had not included her defense of adult film as a career choice. In February 2007, Grey appeared on The Tyra Banks Show and discussed teenagers working in the sex industry.
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In January 2007, Grey was the recipient of awards for "Best Three Way Sex Scene" in Fuck Slaves and "Best Group Scene" in Fashionistas Safado: The Challenge at the 24th AVN Adult Movie Awards. In December 2006, Grey was interviewed on the syndicated entertainment industry news program The Insider. Less than six months after entering the adult industry, Grey was featured in the November 2006 edition of Los Angeles where she was flagged as a potential major star, perhaps the next Jenna Jameson. Grey's first scene was an orgy with Rocco Siffredi for Fashionistas Safado: The Challenge by John Stagliano and helped Grey quickly make a name for herself in the adult film industry after she asked Siffredi to punch her in the stomach during the scene, an act she later stated was improvised.

The name 'Sasha' was taken from Sascha Konietzko of the band KMFDM and 'Grey' came from Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray or, alternatively, from the Kinsey scale, a measurement of homosexual and heterosexual attraction. She initially considered calling herself Anna Karina, after the French New Wave actress of the same name, before choosing Sasha Grey. In May 2006, Hantzis moved to Los Angeles, California, and performed in hardcore pornography. She bussed tables at a Black Angus steakhouse until March 2006 and saved $7,000 for a move to Los Angeles. She graduated a year early at the age of 17, and in late 2005, she attended Sacramento City College and took classes in film, dance, and acting.

Hantzis attended four high schools, including Highlands High in North Highlands, and was unhappy at each. She was raised as an adherent of Catholicism. Hantzis's parents divorced before she started middle school and she was subsequently raised by her mother, who remarried in 2000. Her mother is of English, Irish, and Polish descent. Her father was a Greek-American who worked as a mechanic and died in June 2015. Hantzis was born in North Highlands, California, into a working-class family.
