Asia Carrera |
Asia Carrera (born Jessica Andrea Steinhauser on August 6, 1973 in New York, USA) is an adult film erotic actor. She entered the profession in 1993, and announced her retirement at the end of 2003. She is sometimes credited as Asia or Jessica Bennett.
She was born to a Japanese person father and a Germany mother. She remarks that with her appearance, she can be mistaken for almost any ethnicity.
She studied piano as a child, and had performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. When she was 16, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much academic pressure on her. She claims to have had her IQ tested at 155, was a salutatorian of her high school, won a scholarship at Rutgers, and is a member of Mensa International, the only one to have worked as an adult actress.[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0006562/bio]
She married adult film director Bud Lee on February 27 1995, and later divorced on September 29 2003 after a long separation.
Following the common practice for adult film actresses, the name Asia Carrera is a pseudonym used to hide the actress s legal name. According to interviews, she got the name from actress Tia Carrere, intentionally misspelling it for legal reasons. In Spanish, carrera means race , in the contest of speed meaning of the term.
Describing herself as the nerd of porn, Asia has an active presence on the Internet. She proudly proclaims that she created her own website, including writing the code and editing the pictures. She is an avid player of Unreal Tournament and has designed her own skin, and was featured in the show Players (television) on the G4 (television) games cable channel, where she revealed that her screen name is Megabitchgoddess. She is also a self confessed Corvette fan, but traded hers in at the onset of starting a family.
Asia married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19 2003. They now live in St. George, Utah and have a daughter, Catalina, born on March 4 2005.
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=External links=
*[http://www.asiacarrera.com/ Official website] ( NOTE: Contains adult content ) * * *[http://www.megabitchgoddess.com/ Unreal Tournament skins she designed] ( NOTE: Contains adult content )|
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