(Los Angeles, CA / November 22, 2023) — Maitland Ward is the honored recipient of an AVN Award nomination for 2024 in the category of Best Actress-Featurette.

The talented leading lady is being lauded for her role in Tushy’s “Casting Couch”, a scene Ward wrote and directed, where she auditions two new actors (Mick Blue, Dante Colle) as the big boss of Maitland Ward Productions. “I wasn’t living by anyone else’s rules anymore, especially Hollywood’s. I was calling the shots now…”

Of the nomination, Ward enthused, “Thanks so much to the folks at AVN for supporting my work over these past few years, and for nominating me for the Best Actress-Featurette award. I’m so thrilled and appreciative to be acknowledged alongside so many talented fellow nominees, and deeply grateful for this honor.”

Ward, who launched her industry career in 2019 after many years of working as a successful film and TV star, has previously won AVN Awards for acting in celebrated showcase titles for Vixen Media Group studio Deeper, Drive and Muse. This is her first nomination for Tushy.com.

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Southern California-born and bred Maitland Ward has quickly become one of the biggest stars in adult entertainment, after an-already successful career as an American model, actress and cosplay personality. After finding fame in the ‘90s on CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful and smash ABC sitcom Boy Meets World, as well as a plum role in 2004’s cult classic White Chicks, Ward decided to shake things up with racy social media content, sexy cosplay and appearing at fan conventions before making the leap into adult film in 2019.

The statuesque (5’10”) all-natural redhead is unique in that not only is she beautiful and built for the adult biz, Ward’s talent as an actress means she can also carry dramatic and comedic scenes with ease. Her playful energy, professionalism and open sexuality earned her an exclusive performance contract with Vixen Media Group and the famous face of the brand’s blockbuster studio, Deeper.

In ‘20, Ward won three AVN Awards: Best Supporting Actress, Best Three-Way Sex Scene-G/G/B for Deeper film Drive and Favorite Camming Cosplayer, as well as three XBIZ Awards for Crossover Star of the Year, Best Actress-Feature Movie and Best Sex Scene-Feature Movie, also for Drive. In ‘21 she won two AVN Awards: Best Leading Actress for Deeper’s Muse and Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene for Higher Power, plus two XBIZ Awards for Best Acting-Lead and Best Sex Scene-Feature for Muse. In ‘22 she won two XBIZ trophies for Best Acting-Lead for Muse 2 and Performer of the Year. In ’23 Ward won two AVN Awards for Best Leading Actress for Deeper feature Drift and Mainstream Venture of the Year, and an XBIZ trophy for Drift in the category of Best Sex Scene-Feature Movie.

Ward’s recent mainstream endeavors include starring and co-producing a TV series, The Big Time, taking on a lead role in psychological thriller Just for You and releasing an eye-popping no-holds-barred memoir about her wild life in the entertainment biz, Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood (which won a ’23 AVN Award for the aforementioned Mainstream Venture of the Year and an esteemed Kirkus Star for Excellence). Follow Maitland at Twitter.com/maitlandward and Instagram.com/maitlandward