Leah Luv is a porn actress from the United States. She was born in Long Beach, California on July 28, 1984 as Melissa Knieling. She and her brother were both raised by their single father. Leah was an honor student throughout grade school. Although she received 12 college scholarship offers, she had to decline them because she was pregnant, giving birth to a son when she was 17. Luv started her career in the adult entertainment industry as an exotic dancer. She did her first explicit on-screen sex scene at age 19 in July 2003 for director Ed Powers of World Modeling. Best known for her youthful and nubile appearance, she usually wore braces and/or pigtails to further reinforce her barely legal adolescent sexpot persona.