Asia Carrera was born in NYC to a Japanese father and German mother, she was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey, attending Red Bank Regional High School. She studied piano as a child, and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. When she was 17, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much pressure on her to succeed academically. Asia won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa.
Carrera worked during the early 1990s as a dancer at several go-go bars in her home state of New Jersey. After doing at least one photoshoot for an adult magazine, she put together a demo porn tape in 1993. At the end of that year she relocated to California to break into the pornography business. She announced her retirement at the end of 2003. She is sometimes credited as "Asia" or "Jessica Bennett".
Carrera has also been involved in writing, producing, and directing movies, as well as doing all her own make-up and hair-styling, and doing much of the hair and make-up for other actresses in the same movies.
As is common practice among adult film stars, the name "Asia Carrera" is a pseudonym. According to interviews, she chose the stage name surname from actress Tia Carrere (whom Carrera closely resembles), changing the spelling for legal reasons.
In 1998 she appeared (in an uncredited cameo role) in the the film The Big Lebowski opposite Tara Reid in a faux pornography movie titled "Logjammin" within the film.
She has been a guest reviewer for Maximum PC magazine. Carrera has an active presence on the Internet and describes herself as "the nerd of porn." She states that she created her own Web site in the late 1990s, including writing the code and editing the pictures.
Carrera is also an avid player of Unreal Tournament. She designed her own game skins and was featured in the show Players on the G4 games cable channel, where she revealed that her screen name is "Megabitchgoddess." Carrera hosted her own Unreal Tournament server that featured custom maps designed by fans that frequented the chatroom that she has hosted on her site since 1997. She is also a Corvette aficionado but traded hers in after starting a family.
She identified investor Warren Buffet as her hero on her website, which Buffet was pleased to learn.
On March 18, 2007 she announced on her blog that once her merchandise inventory is gone she will probably shut down her website. "I've got to give my kids their anonymity. I need to back away from being famous so my kids can grow up without being ostracized by their peers for who their mommy was."
After growing tired of impostors claiming to be her on MySpace, she posted her own authentic profile.
Awards
- 1995 AVN Female Performer of the Year
- 2000 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene - Film for Search for the Snow Leopard
- 2000 AVN Award nominee for Best Actress
- AVN Hall of Fame
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Most Recent Update
-updated 6.8.2010 |
