Céline Tran (born 9 April 1979) is a French former pornographic actress and featured dancer, previously known under the stage name Katsuni. She started her adult film career in 2001, working first in France, then in the United States. She received numerous awards in the course of the adult career, most notably the AVN Award for Female Foreign Performer of the Year which she has won three times. She retired from porn in 2013 and returned to France to pursue a career in mainstream entertainment under her real name.
Céline Tran is of French/Vietnamese heritage. Her father is Vietnamese and her mother’s family is French.
She studied for a year at Grenoble Institute of Political Studies. Finding herself ill-suited for political science, she dropped out and then studied literature for three years, envisioning a career as a teacher. During her studies, she did gigs as a go-go dancer, which led her to be spotted by a photographer working for Penthouse. The magazine’s French branch was then looking for actresses who would appear in its adult pictures. Tran accepted Penthouse’s proposal for a shoot as a manner of challenge and because she thought it might be an exciting experience.