| Asia Carrera | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 6, 1973 [1] New York City, New York, United States[1] |
| Other names | Asia Carera Asia Carerra Asian Carrera Jessica Bennett |
| Ethnicity | Japanese and German |
| Height | 5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m)[1] |
| Weight | 128 lb (58 kg; 9.1 st) |
| No. of adult films | 370 (approx.) |
| Website | |
| http://www.asiacarrera.com/ | |
Asia Carrera is an American former pornographic actress.
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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.
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]
In 1998 she appeared in an uncredited cameo role in the film The Big Lebowski in the faux pornographic movie 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 provided one of three featured quotes on the book jacket.
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 who frequented the chatroom that she has hosted on her site since 1997.
She identified investor Warren Buffett as her hero on her website,[15] which Buffett was pleased to learn.[16]
In September 1995, Carrera married adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003, 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. 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]
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".[21]
After growing tired of impostors claiming to be her on MySpace, she posted her own authentic profile.[22]
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.[23]
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:
However, she also said,
Nevertheless, she reiterated that the community's conservatism was the reason she moved there, and that she had no plans to challenge it.[24]