# CoCo Brown > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/CoCo_Brown > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/CoCo_Brown.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCo_Brown > Source revision: 1332462396 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American actress}} {{distinguish|text=actress and comedian [Cocoa Brown](/source/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 Award](/source/AVN_Award)s, 2013 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = [Rapper](/source/Rapper), [disc jockey](/source/disc_jockey), former [pornographic film actress](/source/pornographic_film_actress) | notable_works = [Antibodies (film)](/source/Antibodies_(film)), Black Panty Chronicles 2 | spouse = | alias = }} '''CoCo Brown''' is an American [rapper](/source/Rapping), [DJ](/source/Disc_jockey), and former [pornographic film actress](/source/Pornographic_film_actor).{{r|Koebler 2013}} Brown has also acted in a German [crime thriller film](/source/crime_thriller_film) written and directed by [Christian Alvart](/source/Christian_Alvart).{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} ==Early life== Brown spent part of her childhood in [Toledo, Ohio](/source/Toledo%2C_Ohio) and moved to [Las Vegas](/source/Las_Vegas) with her family when she was in [middle school](/source/middle_school). At age 15, she ran away from home and never returned.{{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](/source/The_Grio)}} ==Career== ===Adult entertainment=== Brown once worked briefly as a [dominatrix](/source/dominatrix). She stopped performing in adult films in 2003.{{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](/source/U.S._News_%26_World_Report)}} ===Music=== Brown launched a [rap](/source/rap) music career after quitting porn and later worked as a [DJ](/source/DJ).{{r|Irwin 2014}}{{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](/source/The_Daily_Beast) |type=interview |url-access=subscription}} ==Suborbital flight== Brown had signed up to go on a [suborbital](/source/suborbital) flight in 2016, which would have lasted approximately one hour and would have provided 90 seconds of weightlessness.{{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](/source/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 }} The flight was to have been arranged by the Space Expedition Corporation (SXC), a [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands)-based [space tourism](/source/space_tourism) company.{{r|Irwin 2014}}{{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](/source/Space.com)}} This opportunity for her arose in 2012 when she received a "space luncheon" invite by a [concierge](/source/concierge) she knew after another person canceled their appearance at the event. She began training for the flight, with help from [XCOR Aerospace](/source/XCOR_Aerospace), that same year.{{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](/source/BET)}} In preparation for the trip, she had to earn a [pilot's license](/source/pilot's_license). She was to have been the flight's [co-pilot](/source/co-pilot). If the trip had taken place as planned, she would have been the first pornographic actress on a suborbital high altitude flight.{{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](/source/HuffPost)}} XCOR ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy in 2017 without flying a single person on their Lynx spaceplane.{{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}} ==Personal life== Brown met her future husband while working in Las Vegas as a [stripper](/source/stripper). She later moved to Germany with her son from a previous relationship. == Filmography == {| class="wikitable sortable" |+Film !Year !Title !Role ! class="unsortable" |Notes |- |2005 |''[Antibodies](/source/Antibodies_(film))'' |Michelle |[Crime thriller film](/source/Crime_thriller_film) |} ==Awards and nominations== {| class="wikitable" |+ [Venus Award](/source/Venus_Award)s |- ! Year ! Result ! Award |- | 2002 | {{won}} |Best New Actress (Germany){{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}} |- | 2003 | {{nom}} |Best Actress (Germany){{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}} |} ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == {{commons category}} * {{official website|itscocobrown.com}} * {{IMDb name|0113295}} * {{iafd name|id=cocobrown2|gender=female}} * {{afdb name|id=1500}} * {{egafd name|c00325}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, CoCo}} Category:Actresses from Las Vegas Category:Actresses from Berlin Category:Actresses from Toledo, Ohio Category:African-American women rappers Category:African-American rappers Category:African-American pornographic film actors Category:African-American DJs Category:American dominatrices Category:American expatriate actresses in Germany Category:American female erotic dancers Category:American erotic dancers Category:American pornographic film actresses Category:American women DJs Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Berlin Category:Pornographic film actors from Nevada Category:Pornographic film actors from Ohio Category:21st-century American rappers Category:21st-century American women rappers Category:American women in electronic music Category:21st-century African-American actresses Category:21st-century American actresses Category:21st-century African-American musicians Category:21st-century African-American women singers Category:21st-century American women singers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [CoCo Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCo_Brown) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCo_Brown?action=history)). 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