Justin Heath Smith (born April 3, 1981), known professionally as Austin Wolf, is an American gay pornographic film actor. Throughout his career, he has won six GayVN Awards, two Pornhub Awards, two Grabby Awards, and two Str8UpGayPorn Awards.

Born and raised in Texas, Wolf moved to New York City at age 20, where he became an escort and won three International Escort Awards. He made his debut as a pornographic actor in 2012 with the gay pornographic studio Randy Blue, with whom he worked for three years before signing an exclusive contract with Falcon Studios. He began working exclusively with CockyBoys starting in 2019 and with Men.com starting in 2023.

In 2024, Wolf was arrested and charged with possessing and distributing hundreds of videos of child pornography.

Early life

Justin Heath Smith was born on April 3, 1981, in Alvarado, Texas, where he was also raised. He has one younger sister and one older sister. At age 17, he started coming out to his friends and family, including his mother, who was initially upset before coming to accept Wolf's sexuality. Soon after, he began working out and putting on muscle and, according to him, became arrogant due to becoming "society's attractive man". At the age of 20, he left Texas and moved to New York, where he worked as a designer furniture retailer. After the subprime crisis, he lost his job as a designer furniture retailer. He then worked at a gay bar as a bartender before creating a profile on the escorting site Rentboy and starting to work as an escort.

Career

In November 2012, Wolf made his pornographic debut with a solo video for gay pornographic studio Randy Blue. He has stated that his family was supportive of his entering the pornographic industry, describing his mother as his "biggest fan", and has attributed his skills as a pornographic actor to his sex addiction. He then worked with Randy Blue for three years, where he made his first partner video starring pornographic actor Nicco Sky. He won the awards for Best Top and Best Body at the International Escort Awards, an awards ceremony for male escorts, in 2013. He signed an exclusive contract with Falcon Entertainment in April 2015 while appearing in releases for pornographic studios Raging Stallion and Hot House. Wolf made cameos as a "shirtless person" on The Wendy Williams Show three times through being friends with the show's art director, Michael Lee Scott.

In 2012, he worked on the Broadway show Bares XXII: Happy Endings, starring Kyle Dean Massey and Jennifer Tilly. In 2013, he appeared in the Broadway show The Big Man. Wolf made a profile on OnlyFans, a subscription-based platform where creators set their own rates, in April 2017, where he began uploading videos of himself having sex from when he was in his twenties. He became one of the first pornographic actors to use OnlyFans to sell content. He reached over one thousand subscribers within two weeks of starting his account. In October 2018, a preview clip from an eight-minute-long 4MyFans video of an off-duty Delta Air Lines flight attendant performing oral sex on Wolf while in uniform and in an airplane bathroom aroused controversy after being uploaded to Twitter, leading to the flight attendant's suspension due to his employee ID being visible and widespread tabloid coverage of the video. The flight attendant stated that he was unaware that the tryst was being recorded, which Wolf denied. Wolf soon deleted his Instagram profile, stating that he wanted to "get his life back on track". That same month, he became Pornhub's most-searched gay pornographic actor and won the Str8UpGayPorn Award for Favorite Daddy. Also that month, he uploaded another video of him having sex with an Uber driver. Wolf was the fourth most popular gay pornographic actor on Pornhub in 2018.

In April 2019, he signed an exclusive contract with gay pornographic studio CockyBoys. He won the award for Most Popular Gay Performer at the 2nd Pornhub Awards in October 2019, where he gave an emotional acceptance speech. Wolf was Pornhub's third most-searched gay pornographic actor in 2019. In January 2020, he won the award for Favorite Fan Content Creator at the 3rd Str8UpGay Porn Awards. He was one of Pornhub's brand ambassadors in April 2020, when they launched their satirical "Scrubhub" video series as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Men.com signed Wolf to an exclusive contract in January 2023. He made his premiere for the studio in Fast & Vicious, in which he played a gangster opposite Skyy Knox.

In November-December 2023, he recruited top porn stars from around the world in his inaugural Collab Week event at Almar Resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Public image

Wolf is considered a pioneer in making OnlyFans a popular pornographic platform. He owns his own subscription-based pornographic website, 4MyFans. David Levesley of British GQ called Wolf "a big name in gay porn" in June 2019, while, in April 2020 JC Adams of XBIZ described him as "a veteran performer with a lauded filmography" who "cemented his stardom" by being "a dazzlingly prolific content creator". In January 2019, Vanity Fair called Wolf a "gay porn mega-star", while, in January 2020, Mickey Keating of Instinct called him "the gay porn star of the world right now". Matt Rettenmund of Boy Culture ranked Wolf one of the greatest gay pornographic actors of all time. Daniel Villarreal of Queerty called his "tribal" belly button tattoo a trademark of his.

Wolf has described his political beliefs as "completely aligned with" those of comedian Kathy Griffin. In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests, Wolf posted a video on Twitter in which he called on pornographic studios to take down any content featuring fellow pornographic actor Billy Santoro who had advocated for police to shoot Black looters. JustForFans, another subscription-based pornographic site, took down Santoro's account soon after. Wolf soon sparked controversy for telling a Black commenter on Instagram, who wrote that America was about "power and exploitation", that they should move.

Personal life

As of 2019, Wolf has a husband.

Arrest for child pornography

On April 21, 2024, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant in Wolf's Manhattan apartment, where an SD card containing hundreds of videos of child pornography, which he reportedly received and sent anonymously with an undercover FBI agent through Telegram between March 24 and 28, was found. According to Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the videos included one of a 10-year-old child being raped and bound by a man, while others contained children as young as infants. In June 2024, the United States Department of Justice announced that Wolf had been arrested in New York and charged with one count of distribution and receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. He would appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky in Manhattan federal court on June 28, 2024. At arraignment, Wolf/Smith was ruled to be a flight risk and as such was denied bail. Despite objection from the defense, he was denied the possibility of home-arrest and is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. If convicted, Wolf/Smith faces a potential maximum sentence of 30 years for both the possession and distribution charges.

Awards and nominations

List of awards and nominations, with award, year, category, nominated work, result, and reference shown

Award	Year	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
Cybersocket Web Awards	2014	Best Sex Scene	Austin Wolfe and Caleb Strong	Nominated
		Best New Pornstar	Himself	Nominated
	2016	Best Pornstar		Nominated
	2017			Nominated
	2018			Nominated
		Best Sex Scene	TKO Total Knockouts	Nominated
	2020	Best Porn Star	Himself	Nominated
Gay Fleshbot Awards	2019	Best Clip Performer		Nominated
		Performer of the Year		Nominated
		Best Group Sex Scene	Aventón	Nominated
GayVN Awards	2018	Favorite Daddy	Himself	Nominated
		Best Fetish Scene	Skuff: Rough Trade 1	Won
		Social Media Star	Himself	Nominated
		Best Group Sex Scene	The Fixer	Nominated
	2019	Best Three-Way Sex Scene	Aventón	Nominated
		Best Top	Himself	Nominated
		Best Duo	Cross Fuck	Nominated
	2020	Favorite Dom	Himself	Won
		Best Supporting Actor	Rags to Riches	Nominated
	2021	Favorite Top	Himself	Won
	2022	Favorite Dom		Won
	2023	Favorite Body		Won
		Favorite Creator Site Star		Won
Grabby Awards	2014	Best Newcomer		Nominated
		Manly Man		Nominated
	2016	Hottest Top		Nominated
		Manly Man		Nominated
		Hottest Rimming	Fined Tuned Ass	Nominated
			Total Exposure 1	Nominated
	2017	Hottest Top	Himself	Nominated
		Manly Man		Nominated
		Performer of the Year		Nominated
	2018	Best Actor	The Fixer	Nominated
		Best Group		Nominated
	2019	Hottest Top	Himself	Nominated
		Best Duo	Cross Fuck	Nominated
		Best Three Way	Rideshare	Nominated
	2021	Performer of the Year	Himself	Nominated
		Hottest Top		Nominated
		Hottest Body		Nominated
		Hottest Daddy		Won
		Hottest Rimming	A Man and His Boy Part 2	Nominated
	2023	Hottest Top	Himself	Nominated
		Hottest Daddy		Won
International Escort Awards	2013	Best Newcomer	Himself	Nominated
		Best Top		Won
		Best Body		Nominated
	2014	Best Pornstar Escort		Nominated
		Best Body		Won
	2015	Best Top		Won
Pornhub Awards	2019	Most Popular Gay Performer		Won
	2020			Nominated
		Top Daddy Performer		Won
Prowler Awards	2020	Best International Pornstar		Nominated
Str8UpGayPorn Awards	2018	Favorite Daddy		Won
		Favorite Gay Porn Star		Nominated
		Best Group Sex Scene	The Fixer	Nominated
		Best Topping Performance		Nominated
	2019	Favorite Body	Himself	Nominated
		Favorite Topping Performance	Austin Wolf and Nico Leon	Nominated
		Favorite Fan Content Creator	Himself	Nominated
	2020	Favorite Fan Content Creator	Himself	Won
	2022	Favorite Body	Himself	Nominated
XBIZ Awards	2019	Gay Performer of the Year		Nominated
	2020			Nominated
	2021			Nominated