Fresh Faces: Catalina Ossa

A version of this feature appears in the August 2020 issue of AVN magazine. Click here for the digital edition. LOS ANGELES—Sometimes when Catalina Ossa wants to get away from the daily grind, she goes cliff jumping in her native Arizona. “The highest one was probably 40 feet—that one was terrifying,” Ossa admits. “That’ll make your butt pucker for sure.” But Ossa assures that once you overcome your initial fears and just do it, the feeling is exhilarating. “I just did a gainer off of it,” she says. “That’s my idea of cheap fun. I’m a little daredevil.” The 19-year-old, first-generation Colombian beauty took another leap in November, when she got tired of her waitressing job and stormed into the adult industry, signing with Hussie Models for representation. So far she’s done less than 20 scenes—but if it weren’t for the industry shutdown she’d likely be well over 50 already by now as about three months of bookings—from March to press time in June—got cancelled. Now she is on a break from shooting until the pandemic subsides, according to her agent Ryan from Hussie. “A longtime friend introduced me to Catalina,” Ryan tells AVN. “And wow, I’ll tell ya. When I first saw her I said to myself this beautiful exotic Colombian girl is going to make waves! She has such passion and ambition. She’s energetic and feisty but in a sexy way, of course. She’s been an absolute pleasure to work with. And I’m excited to see what she does with the platform she’s building for herself!” It seems like the word is out about Ossa, who as of last week had racked up 47,000-plus followers on Twitter, 18,900 more on Instagram and an OnlyFans account with an increasing number of subscribers that is generating a nice income as she waits to return to the set. “I think it’s pretty crazy how quickly it blew up,” Ossa says modestly. “I didn’t think I’d be that big of a deal. There are just so many girls constantly joining the industry. Every day a new one is coming.” But there is only one Catalina Ossa. She tells AVN, "I always had a little hustle in my game.” A first-generation Colombian, Ossa waited tables, cleaned houses, walked dogs, babysat, and did other odd jobs for many years before deciding to try adult work. Her last job before making the move was as a waitress/bartender at a small restaurant on a popular street in Arizona. She stayed for about six months before she grew weary of her boss. “He would single me out and bully me all the time,” Ossa says. So last fall Ossa decided to call Ryan from Hussie, whom she had met about a year earlier. When Ryan told Ossa he was a porn talent agent at first she was skeptical. Then after doing more research—not to mention being a natural risk-taker—she felt it was time to give porn a shot. “I reached out to him and said, ‘Would you be interested in signing me?’ And the same day I got signed,” Ossa says. Ossa, who was familiar with several of the well-known sites before she got into adult, called her early experiences on set last year “surreal.” “To get a feel for what it actually is behind the camera, it’s a whole new world,” she says. Among some of Ossa’s most high-profile scenes so far was a threeway for two-time Director of the Year Kayden Kross’s Deeper with Michael Vegas and Paris Amour. “That was so fun,” Ossa says. “Kayden is a wonderful director. She has a great personality and made shooting so easy. It was really cool to see how they did everything with their cameras and their lighting. It was different from a lot of what I’ve done so far.” Ossa did her first scene for Exploited College Girls in Arizona. “I was nervous as hell. I couldn’t believe it was all happening,” she says. “The people on set really helped ease me.” Her first L.A. shoot was for Bryan Gozzling’s HookupHotshot. “That was a fun scene, very colorful,” she says. At press time in June, Ossa indicated she would likely shoot only “home videos” for a while before coming back to L.A. “Just to be safe I’m keeping it pretty locked down," she says. She says in high school, “I was the science and social studies nerd that had a small group of friends.” “I was a band girl,” says Ossa, who played the saxophone, flute and clarinet and trumpet. She played first chair clarinet in her elective band class. “Clarinet was my forte and trumpet would be a close second. … I focused on school while I was at school. I was a keep-to-myself-type person in school. I never went to prom. I never wanted to pay the money for that. I just never was into that type of stuff.” Ossa played volleyball and also practiced Tae Kwon Do and boxing when she wasn’t going to school. Now she is studying psychology in college in between shooting. “I also want to get a criminal justice degree and move into criminal psychology,” Ossa adds. She sees the adult industry as a big part of her future. “I’m thinking this is going to be a part of my life for a long time, whether it’s front of the camera or behind it," Ossa says. Lead photo by @MoultonOriginal