Asia Carrera Biography
Asia Carrera is a former American pornographic actress. She is New York City to a Japanese father and German mother and is the oldest of four siblings. She was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey, attending the Little Silver School District and Red Bank Regional High School.
She studied piano as a child and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. By 16 she taught English at Tsuruga College in Japan.
When she was 17, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much pressure on her to succeed academically. She won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa.
Asia Carrera Age
Jessica Andrea Steinhauser(an American former pornographic actress). Was born on August 6. 1973 in New York, NY. he 45 years old as of 2018.
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She was born in Jessica Steinhauser in New York City to a German mother and Japanese father, the oldest of four siblings. She was raised on Lippincott Road in Little Silver, New Jersey, attending the Little Silver School District and Red Bank Regional High School. She studied piano as a child and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. At the age of 16, she taught English at Tsuruga College in Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan.
Carrera won a National Merit Scholarship and scored over 1440 on the SAT, as well as a Garden State Scholarship for her grades. She attended Rutgers University on a full academic scholarship, where she majored in Japanese and business, but did not graduate. She is a member of Mensa, with an IQ of 156.
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Carrera is an atheist. As of November 2014, she wore a colander on her head for her Utah driver’s license photograph. State law normally prohibits the wearing of hats in driver license photos, but there is an exception for religious headwear, and Carerra’s colander was worn in honor of the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. She is one of about a dozen “Pastafarian” Utahns who has worn a colander in their official state ID photos.
In September 1995, She married adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003, but remain good friends. She married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19. 2003. The couple moved to St. George, Utah, where she gave birth to a daughter on March 4. 2005. On June 10. 2006, Lemmon was killed in a car accident outside of Las Vegas. Seven weeks later, on July 31, she gave birth to the couple’s second child, son Devin D’Artagnan. In June 2012, she gave birth to a boy that she later placed for adoption.
On April 14.2010, she confessed on her blog that she became an alcoholic after her husband’s death, that she had joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and was in her third week of sobriety. She emphasized that she still did not believe in God, as such a belief is “actually not mandatory for joining AA.”
She identified investor Warren Buffett as her hero on her website, which Buffett was pleased to learn. In 2017, Carrera began studies at Dixie State University with her daughter.
Asia Carrera Career
Adult film career
Carrera’s adult film career ran from (1993 to 2003) and included over 400 films and video features. According to interviews, she chose her stage name surname from actress Tia Carrere, changing the spelling for legal reasons.
She was the first Asian performer ever to win the award AVN Female Performer of the Year Award. Carrera retired from the film industry in 2003, following her marriage to Don Lemmon.
She lent her voice to several erotic hentai OVAs for publisher Pink Pineapple, such as Inmu 2001 and Shusaku, 1999. In October 2001, she attended the Big Apple Anime Fest in New York City for her voice roles and along with Kobe Tai was an Opening Night Guest of Honor at the fest’s Midnight Anime Concourse.
The actor was also in the 2012 documentary After Porn Ends, which is about life after being a porn actor. In the documentary, she discusses her membership in MENSA. Despite being a celebrity member of the group, the organization refused to link to her website because it contained pornographic elements.
Other work
In 1998, she performed in an uncredited cameo role in the film The Big Lebowski in the faux pornographic movie Logjammin’ within the film. She was a guest reviewer for Maximum PC magazine.
Asia Carrera Awards and nominations
1995 AVN Female Performer of the Year
2000 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene – Film
2000 AVN Award nominee – Best Actress
2001 AVN Hall of Fame inductee
2007 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee – XRCO Members’ Choice
