{{short description|American actress}} {{distinguish|text=actress and comedian Cocoa Brown}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox person | name = CoCo Brown | image = CoCo Brown - 2013 AVN Awards (8396773511).jpg | caption = Brown at the AVN Awards, 2013 | birth_name = <!--See WP:BLPPRIVACY before adding birth names/dates--> | birth_date = <!--See WP:BLPPRIVACY before adding birth names/dates--> | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Rapper, disc jockey, former pornographic film actress | notable_works = Antibodies (film), Black Panty Chronicles 2 | spouse = | alias = }}

'''CoCo Brown''' is an American rapper, DJ, and former pornographic film actress.{{r|Koebler 2013}} Brown has also acted in a German crime thriller film written and directed by Christian Alvart.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}

==Early life== Brown spent part of her childhood in Toledo, Ohio and moved to Las Vegas with her family when she was in middle school. At age 15, she ran away from home and never returned.<ref name="Irwin 2014">{{cite web |url=https://thegrio.com/2014/04/14/porn-star-coco-brown-may-become-4th-african-american-woman-to-travel-in-space/ |title=Porn star CoCo Brown may become 4th African-American woman to travel in space |access-date=March 2, 2025 |first=Demetria |last=Irwin |date=April 14, 2014 |website=The Grio}}</ref>

==Career==

===Adult entertainment=== Brown once worked briefly as a dominatrix.<ref name="Irwin 2014"/> She stopped performing in adult films in 2003.<ref name="Koebler 2013">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/14/retired-porn-star-to-become-first-adult-actress-in-space |title=Retired Porn Star to Become First Adult Actress in Space |access-date=March 2, 2025 |first=Jason |last=Koebler |date=February 14, 2013 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>

===Music=== Brown launched a rap music career after quitting porn and later worked as a DJ.{{r|Irwin 2014}}<ref name="Snow 2015">{{cite news |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-meet-the-worlds-first-porn-star-turned-astronaut/ |title=Exclusive: Meet the World's First Porn Star Turned Astronaut |access-date=March 2, 2025 |first=Aurora |last=Snow |author-link=Aurora Snow |date=July 31, 2015 |website=The Daily Beast |type=interview |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Suborbital flight== Brown had signed up to go on a suborbital flight in 2016, which would have lasted approximately one hour and would have provided 90 seconds of weightlessness.<ref name="Love 2015">{{cite news |url=http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/coco-brown-outer-space/ |title=Former porn star CoCo Brown is headed to outer space |access-date=September 18, 2015 |first=Dylan |last=Love |date=May 7, 2015 |work=The Daily Dot |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304233014/http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/coco-brown-outer-space/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The flight was to have been arranged by the Space Expedition Corporation (SXC), a Netherlands-based space tourism company.{{r|Irwin 2014}}<ref name="Kramer 2013">{{cite news |url=https://www.space.com/19649-first-porn-star-space-coco-brown.html |title=Will Coco Brown Be 1st Porn Star in Space? |access-date=March 2, 2025 |first=Miriam |last=Kramer |date=February 6, 2013 |work=Space.com}}</ref> This opportunity for her arose in 2012 when she received a "space luncheon" invite by a concierge she knew after another person canceled their appearance at the event.<ref name="Snow 2015"/> She began training for the flight, with help from XCOR Aerospace, that same year.<ref name="Love 2015"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bet.com/article/aaj8nz/coco-brown-training-for-space-expedition |title=CoCo Brown Training for Space Expedition |access-date=September 18, 2015 |first=Evelyn |last=Diaz |date=June 4, 2014 |publisher=BET}}</ref> In preparation for the trip, she had to earn a pilot's license.<ref name="Love 2015"/> She was to have been the flight's co-pilot.<ref name="Snow 2015"/> If the trip had taken place as planned, she would have been the first pornographic actress on a suborbital high altitude flight.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coco-brown-first-porn-star-in-space_n_2567586?1359759106= |title=Coco Brown In Training To Be First Porn Star In Space |access-date=March 2, 2025 |first=David |last=Moye |date=February 1, 2013 |work=HuffPost}}</ref> XCOR ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy in 2017 without flying a single person on their Lynx spaceplane.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.space.com/38777-xcor-aerospace-files-for-bankruptcy.html |title=XCOR Aerospace Files for Bankruptcy |last=Foust |first=Jeff |date=November 15, 2017 |access-date=June 14, 2024 |website=Space.com}}</ref>

==Personal life== Brown met her future husband while working in Las Vegas as a stripper. She later moved to Germany with her son from a previous relationship.<ref name="Irwin 2014"/>

== Filmography == {| class="wikitable sortable" |+Film !Year !Title !Role ! class="unsortable" |Notes |- |2005 |''Antibodies'' |Michelle |Crime thriller film |}

==Awards and nominations== {| class="wikitable" |+ Venus Awards |- ! Year ! Result ! Award |- | 2002 | {{won}} |Best New Actress (Germany)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.venus-berlin.com/2002/de/presse/download/venus.award.pdf |title=6.VENUS-AWARDS |access-date=September 18, 2015 |website=Venus-berlin.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040830210316/http://www.venus-berlin.com/2002/de/presse/download/venus.award.pdf |archive-date=August 30, 2004}}</ref> |- | 2003 | {{nom}} |Best Actress (Germany)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.german-adult-news.com/images/stories/artikel/venus_03/venus_nominierungen_03.pdf |title=Venus Award Nominierungen |access-date=September 18, 2015 |website=German Adult News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904035439/http://www.german-adult-news.com/images/stories/artikel/venus_03/venus_nominierungen_03.pdf |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |}

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== External links == {{commons category}} <!-- per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL, choose one official website only --> * {{official website|itscocobrown.com}} * {{IMDb name|0113295}} * {{iafd name|id=cocobrown2|gender=female}} * {{afdb name|id=1500}} * {{egafd name|c00325}}

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