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Asia Carrera 
Born August 6, 1973 [1]
New York City, New York, United States[1]Alias(es) Asia Carera
Asia Carerra
Asian Carrera
Jessica BennettHeight 5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m)[1] Weight 128 lb (58 kg; 9.1 st) Eye color Brown Hair color Brunette Ethnicity Japanese and German No. of adult films 370 (approx.) Official website Asia Carrera is a former American pornographic actress.
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Early life and education
Asia Carrera was born in New York City to a Japanese father and German mother,[2] the eldest of four siblings.[3] 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.[4]
She won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa,[4][5] with an IQ of 156.[6] When she was 17, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much pressure on her to succeed academically.
Adult film career
According to interviews, she chose her stage name surname from actress Tia Carrere, changing the spelling for legal reasons.[7]
Carrera performed only a few anal sex scenes during her career. Her first anal scene was in the movie A is for Asia (a film to which she owned all the rights) which occurred after her contract with Vivid finished.[8]
Other work
In 1998 she appeared in an uncredited cameo role in the film The Big Lebowski in a faux pornographic movie titled Logjammin' within the film.[9][10]
Carrera was a guest reviewer for Maximum PC magazine.[11]
Carrera lent her voice to several erotic hentai OVAs for publisher Pink Pineapple, such as Inmu (2001)[12] and Shusaku (1999).[13] In October 2001, Carrera 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.[14]
Carrera was featured in the book, Part Asian, 100% Hapa by artist Kip Fulbeck. She also authored one of three featured quotes on the book jacket.
Other interests
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 Buffett as her hero on her website,[15] which Buffett was pleased to learn.[16]
Personal life
Carrera on a film set in 2002.
In September 1995, Carrera married adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003 after a long separation, but remain good friends.[1] Carrera dated a former grip from her porn sets for a few years until his visa expired and he returned to England. Soon after, she married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19, 2003. The couple moved to St. George, Utah where Carrera gave birth to her first daughter, Catalina, on March 4, 2005.[17] Lemmon was killed in a car accident near Las Vegas on June 10, 2006. At the time, Carrera was almost eight months pregnant with their second child.[18] Concerned about her livelihood and worries of not being able to support her two children on her own, Carrera began to solicit donations on her personal web site.[19][20] Eventually, Carrera got a message from an insurance company that a life insurance policy she had forgotten about did exist for her husband, and she was granted it after mandatory investigation.[20]
Their son, who was born on July 31, 2006, was initially to be named Devin; but she decided after Lemmon's death to name him Donald Edward Lemmon III.[21] She and Lemmon had planned for the birth to be unassisted, but after his death she was offered free midwifery services; she was unsure whether she wanted to give birth alone without her husband. The birth occurred 11 days before the estimated due date, while a midwife was en route.
On May 13, 2007, she announced on her web site that she had filed a request to legally change her son's name to Devin D'Artagnan Lemmon, in honor of Devin DeVasquez, the woman who first introduced her to Donald. She explained that "He's not Don, he never will be Don, and it made me want to start crying every time a random stranger would say, 'Oh he's so cute, what's his name?'" The state made an error in changing his name, however, keeping the "III".[22]
Carrera is an outspoken atheist, stating "I've always been an atheist; science explains everything."[23]
After growing tired of impostors claiming to be her on MySpace, she posted her own authentic profile.[24]
On April 14, 2010, Carrera confessed on her blog that she became an alcoholic after the death of her husband, Donald, that she had joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and was in her third week of sobriety. She emphasized that she was still an atheist, as Alcoholics Anonymous does not require a belief in God.[25]
Commentary on the Susan Russell pornography case
In 2006, Carrera was asked for commentary by The Spectrum, a St. George, Utah-area newspaper, on the local case of Susan Russell, who was charged with 15 counts of third-degree felony distribution of pornographic material. Russell allegedly sold pornographic materials and sex toys from a back room in her Earrings and More store, potentially violating the "community standards" of the Mormon-dominated town per the Supreme Court case Miller v. California. Carrera opined:
- "I deliberately moved to St. George with my husband so we could raise our kids in a conservative atmosphere, in a low-crime, family friendly state. I do appreciate that the laws are there, and will make it harder for my kids to get into trouble when they get older."
However, she also said,
- "Do I have a problem with porn being sold here? No, not per se. I have no problem with porn at all. Trust me, they don't exploit women, and watching porn has never been scientifically shown to lead to any increase in crime rates, be it rape, pedophilia, or any other sexual crimes."
Nevertheless, she reiterated that the community's conservatism was the reason she moved there, and that she had no plans to challenge it.[26]
Awards
- 1995 AVN Female Performer of the Year[27]
- 2000 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene - Film for Search for the Snow Leopard[27]
- 2000 AVN Award nominee for Best Actress (film)[28]
- AVN Hall of Fame[29]
References
- ^ a b c d "Bio". www.asiacarrera.com. http://www.asiacarrera.com/bio.html. Retrieved 2010-05-18.
- ^ "Asia Carrera: Why I do porn". http://www.asiacarrera.com/bio2.html.
- ^ "House of Truth: Asia Carrera interview". House of Truth. http://www.mrwebreview.com/asiacarrerainterview.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- ^ a b "The Women of Porn", Playboy, March 2002, page 128
- ^ "They're Accomplished, They're Famous, and They're MENSANS". Mensa Bulletin (American Mensa) (476): p. 23. July 2004. ISSN 0025-9543.
- ^ (Romanian)Turcu, Cosmin; Chiru, Dana. Căutătorii de genii au recrutat 173 de români "Căutătorii de genii au recrutat 173 de români", adevarul.ro, May 30, 2011
- ^ Asia Carrera. "How did you pick your name?". asiacarrera.com. http://asiacarrera.com/faqs.html#8. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
- ^ Asia Carrera. "A is for Asia on merchandise page". www.lildictator.com. http://www.lildictator.com/a4advd.html. Retrieved 2007-05-25. ""A is for Asia" has my first anal scene! And my second! And my first D.P. (double penetration) with toys! Plus my first FOUR facial cumshots! I own it, I wrote it, I produced & directed it, and even designed the boxcover!"
- ^ Green, Bill; Peskoe, Ben (2007). I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, the Big Lebowski, and What Have You. Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt. New York, NY: Bloomsbury USA. pp. 75–76. ISBN 978-1-59691-246-5.
- ^ Tyree, Joshua M.; Walters, Ben (2007). The Big Lebowski. BFI Film Classics. London, England: British Film Institute. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-84457-173-4. OCLC 156919357.
- ^ Maximum PC Magazine, July 2002, Page 72
- ^ Clements, Jonathan; Helen McCarthy (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia (Revised & Expanded Edition). Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. p. 301. ISBN 1-933330-10-4.
- ^ "Shusaku and Inmu Details". Anime News Network. May 8, 2001. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-05-08/shusaku-and-inmu-details. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
- ^ "BAAF Wrap-up PR". Anime News Network. November 14, 2001. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-11-14/baaf-wrap-up-pr. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
- ^ Biography section of Carrera's website
- ^ The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder, Bloomsbury, 2008, p729
- ^ Asia Carrera. "Asia's Bulletins". asiacarrera.com. Archived from the original on 2005-03-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20050306042441/http://www.asiacarrera.com/bulletin.html. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- ^ "Obituaries: Lemmon Jr., Donald". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2006-06-16. http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=994724265. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ "WHAT YOU ARE GETTING TODAY IS A GLIMPSE INSIDE MY WORLD...". http://www.donlemmon.com/don-lemmon-blog.html.
- ^ a b "ASIA'S BULLETINS!". http://www.asiacarrera.com/bulletin.html.
- ^ "Obituaries: LEMMON JR., DONALD". http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=4724265.
- ^ Asia Carrera (2007-05-13). "Asia Carrera Bulletin". asiacarrera.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-01. http://web.archive.org/web/20070601203823/http://www.asiacarrera.com/bulletin.html. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ^ Interview at Infidelguy
- ^ Asia Carrera. "Blog posting of June 28, 2007". asiacarrera.com. http://www.asiasbulletin.com/index2.html. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
- ^ Asia Carrera. "Blog posting of April 14, 2010". asiacarrera.com. http://www.asiasbulletin.com. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
- ^ "Pornography case puts privacy rights at odds with set public standards". http://thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061221/NEWS01/612210311. Retrieved 2007-01-20.
- ^ a b "Past AVN Award Winners". http://www.avnawards.com/index.php?content=pastwinners. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "AVN 2000 Nominations". AVN. Archived from the original on 2000-01-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20000123103017/www.avn.com/awards/noms.html. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
- ^ "AVN Hall of Fame". http://www.avnawards.com/index.php?content=halloffame. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
External links
- Official website
- Official Blog
- Nakamura, Eric. "Big Money Shot: Asia Carrera" Interview at Giant Robot; 1999
- Asia Carrera at the Internet Movie Database
- Asia Carrera at the Internet Adult Film Database
- Asia Carrera at the Adult Film Database
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