September 6, 1996 / Virgo / Age 29
Lana Rhoades is an American-born Penthouse model, stripper, and award-winning pornographic actress. She was born Amara Lynee Maple on September 6, 1996 in McHenry, Illinois, United States. Throughout her modeling career, she has also appeared as Lana Rhodes.
Lana Rhoades was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in August 2016, stepping into the spotlight at just 19 years old. Her measurements are 34-23-35. Lana Rhoades has seductive blue eyes, rich brown hair, and natural breasts.
Lana Rhoades has the kind of presence that feels impossible to contain within a single era, label, or version of herself. There is something strikingly modern about her appeal, not only in the way she photographs, but in the way she seems to understand fame as something to be shaped, contested, and reclaimed. She did not arrive as a quiet fantasy. She arrived with force. In Penthouse, that translated into exactly the kind of charge the page lives on: beauty sharpened by ambition, vulnerability sharpened by will.
What made her so magnetic on camera was the contrast. Lana Rhoades could project softness and intensity at the same time, with a look that suggested both youthful openness and a far more calculating awareness underneath it. That blend gave her image real voltage. She did not seem passive inside the fantasy; she seemed to be negotiating with it, testing its edges, deciding how much of herself to give and how much to keep. Even early on, there was a sense that she was more than a breakout face. She felt like a woman whose story would not stay simple for long.
Of Czech and Slovenian descent, and known off camera as Amara Maple, she grew up in McHenry, Illinois, where she was active in cheerleading and sports and graduated high school early. After moving closer to Chicago, she worked at a Tilted Kilt and began her legal adult work in hostessing and strip-club performance before appearing in early Playboy Cybergirl pictorials. In 2016, at nineteen, she entered the adult film industry with her first scene for FTV Girls before moving to Los Angeles and expanding into work for Bang Bros, Naughty America, and other productions. Penthouse named her Pet of the Month in August 2016, capturing the moment before her rise accelerated even further. In 2017, she earned AVN Award nominations for Best Revelation and Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene, and by 2019 she had become the most-searched actress on Pornhub. She later left the industry, returned to work with Brazzers in 2020 as a marketing consultant, built a powerful career as a social media creator, launched other ventures including a podcast and lingerie collaboration, and spoke openly about exploitation and abuse in the business.
What lingers most is not just the image, but the friction behind it. Lana Rhoades became memorable because she never stayed fixed in the role others might have preferred for her. Some women are framed by the spotlight. She seems more interested in learning who controls it.
Height: 5'5 (165 cm)
Weight: 119 lb (54 kg)
Breast: 34" (86 cm)
Waist: 23" (58 cm)
Hips: 35" (88 cm)
Breast type: natural
Zodiac: Virgo
Ethnicity: caucasian
Hair сolor: brown
Eye сolor: blue