Stoya, civil name Jessica Stoyadinovic, born on June 15, 1986 in Wilmington, North Carolina, as a child of Serbian father and Scottish mother. He studied dancing three years ago, studied at home, and got a high school degree before he was 16. His father worked as an IT guy, so Stoya became a little kid who knew computers and technology. He lived in the vicinity of Philadelphia, where, among other things, he worked as a secretary, a flyer and a go-go dancer, and for a short time, he was a student at Delaware College of Art & Design, but he left school. He entered the adult industry in 2007, first worked on alternative erotic photography and altoerotic websites, then contracted by Digital Playground studio, where the company became known as the first "alt porno" star. His first feature film was Stoya Video Nasty, but the first film was released by Jack's POV 9. In 2009 he won an AVN (Best New Starlet) and received several other prestigious professional awards. He was specifically licensed in 2013 in the Evil Angel Voracious series, and then left Digital Playground in 2014 and started to work as a director and producer. In 2014 he started the payperScene Porn page, TrenchCOATx, where he was active as director and actress. In 2018, Mitcz Marzoni launched the zerospaces.com platform.