The road from Atlanta

Before the cameras

Long before any film set, there was a dance studio in Georgia. Briana started training at five and never really stopped: jazz, ballet, modern, hip-hop. By college she was good enough to teach, and disciplined enough to turn professional.

She danced for an NHL team’s crowd and for the Atlanta Hawks’ A-Town Dancers, four seasons of long rehearsals, bright lights and 18,000-seat arenas. It taught her how to hold a room, and how to ignore everything except the performance.

Timeline

• Early 2000s: Trains in jazz, ballet, modern and hip-hop from the age of five.
• Mid-2000s: Teaches dance while studying marketing at Kennesaw State University.
• 2007–2009: Dances professionally, including several seasons with the Atlanta Hawks’ A-Town Dancers.
• August 2009: Moves to Los Angeles to pursue modelling.
• October 2009: Films her first scenes under the name Brandy Blair.
• June 2010: Appears on the cover of Hustler as Hustler Honey of the Month.
• 2010–2011: Works steadily across studio and web productions and attends the AVN events in Las Vegas.
• 2011 onward: Becomes a fixture of the parody boom, with titles including Big Bang Theory XXX and The Big Lebowski XXX.
• Later years: Steps back from new productions; her back catalogue keeps finding new audiences.

The parody era

The parody wave of the early 2010s needed performers who could actually act, and dancers who were funny on cue. Blair’s timing and energy fit the format perfectly; she turned up in spoofs of the biggest shows and films of the day, and the comedy scripts let her show range her straight scenes never asked for.

Why she still gets searched

Her last credits are years old, yet people still search her name. The cheerleader years, the Hustler cover and the athlete’s discipline on set explain why.