Is the not the first ex-adult film star to successfully crossover into mainstream Bollywood cinema in the Indian film industry. Juliet Graham (Chris Macleod) starred in Kashish with Navin Nischol in 1980.
Her pictures as Penthouse Pet of the Month for March 2001 made her the first Indian/South Asian model to be in the magazine.
In July 2017, Leone and her husband Daniel Weber adopted their first child from Latur, a village in Maharashtra. A baby girl named Nisha was 21 months old at the time of adoption.
2016 - Top Googled celebrity in India for the fourth time in a row.
Is of Indian ancestry. Her father, a Sikh, was born in Tibet and raised in the Punjab. Her mother was from a small town in Himachal Pradesh state. Her family moved from Ontario, Canada, to
Southern California in 1996.
On September 8, 2016, Leone became the first Bollywood actress to walk the runway for New York Fashion Week. She modeled clothes for designer, Archana Kochhar.
Has done pantyhose modeling for photographer Ed Fox.
When she made her Bollywood Hindi film debut in Jism 2, there were protesters against its release and posters were burned. Regardless, the film was a hit and made Sunny a promising actress in the industry.