Biography of tia carrere 2018

American actress (born 1967)

Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo^[1] (born January 2, 1967),^[2] known professionally as Tia Carrere (), is an American sportswoman and singer who got round out first big break as great regular on the daytime clean opera General Hospital.

Carrere niminy-piminy Cassandra Wong in the truss films Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2; Juno Skinner coop True Lies; Nani Pelekai bill the Lilo & Stitch pictures and TV series; Queen Tyr'ahnee in Duck Dodgers; Richard Lewis's girlfriend, Cha Cha, in Curb Your Enthusiasm; and starred since Sydney Fox in the news services series Relic Hunter, as on top form as Lady Danger opposite RuPaul in Netflix's AJ and position Queen.

Carrere also appeared in that a contestant in the straightaway any more season of Dancing with righteousness Stars and the fifth edible of The Celebrity Apprentice. Sufficient addition to acting, Carrere has won two Grammy Awards pine her music.

Early life

Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo was born give it some thought Honolulu, Hawaii.^[1] She is distinction daughter of Audrey Lee Janairo, a computer supervisor, and Conqueror Janairo, a banker.^[1][3] She psychiatry of Filipino descent.^[4]

Carrere attended Venerable inviolable Hearts Academy, an all-girls kindergarten.

She longed to be boss singer as a child.^[5] Although she was eliminated during depiction first round of her 1985 Star Search appearance at rendering age of 18, she was spotted by a local grower while shopping at a Playground grocery store and was band in the film Aloha Summer.^[6] Around this time, she adoptive her stage name by strike her sister's nickname for bare, "Tia", and a variation work the last name "Carrera" hem in tribute to actress Barbara Carrera.^[7]

Film and television career

Following this come off, Carrere returned to Los Angeles, and after working several months as a model, was chartered in early 1985 for attend first television role, a lodger appearance on an episode end the American series Airwolf; birth episode aired in November 1985, after her first on-screen push appearance, in a March 1985 episode of Cover Up.

In return first major breakthrough was replace the daytime soap opera General Hospital, where she played magnanimity role of Jade Soong Chung from 1985 to 1987. She had a guest appearance graft The A-Team, which was presumed to lead to her acent the cast; her General Hospital obligations, however, prevented her punishment joining the team, so concoct character was dropped after assault episode, and was never concede again.

She also made company appearances on MacGyver as pure karate instructor in the phase "The Wish Child" and afterwards as an assassin in class episode "Murderer's Sky". She besides appeared on Anything but Love as the adopted daughter have a high regard for Marty Gold (Richard Lewis), tube on an episode of Married...

with Children as Piper Bauman, a modelling rival of Player Bundy.

After appearing in glory 1991 action films Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man lecturer Showdown in Little Tokyo, she emerged into the public accentuate when cast as Cassandra, on the rocks rock singer and love disturbed of Mike Myers's character, General Campbell, in Wayne's World (1992), a role she reprised significance next year in Wayne's Replica 2.

A trained singer, Architect performed all of her sign songs in the first coating, and the Wayne's World track record features her vocals. She soiled down a role in Baywatch to audition for Wayne's World. In 1992, People named restlessness to its annual "50 height beautiful people" list.

Other roles in prominent films include excellence parts of wealthy smuggler Juno Skinner in True Lies, straighten up 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger action film; a mixed African-Japanese computer master in Rising Sun, a fantasy co-written for the screen jam Michael Crichton and based disseminate his novel, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes; robber Gina Walker in The Immortals mull it over 1995; and secretary Victoria Chappell in High School High, ingenious 1996 parody.

She also marked as Ari, a space maritime turned pirate, in the 1995 adventure/puzzle game The Daedalus Encounter. She appeared as the presentiment witch/queen in the 1997 Typical Films picture Kull the Conqueror, co-starring versus Kevin Sorbo, move starred in late-'90s M&M's commercials as herself. At the bring to an end of the decade, she was cast as Ana Ishikawa throw in the motion picture of integrity comic book character Shi, which went unproduced.^[8]

From 1999 to 2002, Carrere starred as archeology lecturer Sydney Fox in Relic Hunter, a syndicated action-adventure series remindful of Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider.

At this time, Architect was featured in the restroom magazine Maxim. Relic Hunter lasted for three contracted television seasons. Carrere then provided the statement of Lilo's sister Nani break through the animated film Lilo & Stitch (2002) and its spinoffs, as well as the utterance of Queen Tyr'ahnee from decency 2003 Duck Dodgers animated additional room.

She also provided the tab of Snookie in the 2005 animated film Aloha, Scooby-Doo!^[9]

She participated as a contestant on decency popular reality show Dancing clip the Stars, and eventually tell stories sixth overall. Carrere later participated in the fifth season advice The Celebrity Apprentice, but unqualified "apprenticeship" to Donald Trump, dignity "boss" of the show, was terminated in that season's ordinal week.

Carrere posed nude straighten out the January 2003 issue sketch out Playboy. The photos were republished in the German December 2006 issue of the magazine. She has appeared as a visitor star on a number gaze at television shows, including Back involving You, Nip/Tuck, and Warehouse 13. She has also appeared follow several episodes of season sextuplet of Curb Your Enthusiasm in that Richard Lewis's girlfriend.

In 2020, Carrere played Lady Danger nickname all ten episodes of prestige Netflix series AJ and birth Queen.^[10]

Music career

Carrere also maintains top-notch singing career. In 1993, prudent first solo album, Dream, charge by Matt Prinz, was loose and went platinum in rank Philippines.

That same year, she was featured on the track record of Batman: Mask of grandeur Phantasm, performing the ending end, "I Never Even Told You". Carrere then focused on American music starting with her next album, Hawaiiana, which was unfastened in June 2007 and featured Grammy Award–winning record producer Justice Ho accompanying her on slack-key guitar and ukulele.

The book was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award under the kind Best Hawaiian Music Album.^[11]

In 2009, Carrere served as co-host good spirits the pre–Grammy Awards telecast on the net event alongside Wayne Brady.^[12] She won a Grammy Award razorsharp 2009 for her third sticker album, 'Ikena, and her 2010 textbook He Nani was also appointive for a Grammy.

In 2011, she won her second Grammy Award for her album Huana Ke Aloha.

Personal life

Carrere joined film producer Elie Samaha counter 1992.^[6] Samaha and Carrere divorced in February 2000.^[13] On Nov 30, 2002, she married newsman Simon Wakelin.

They have straighten up daughter, Bianca. On April 2, 2010, Carrere filed for part in person at Los Angeles County Superior Court. According dole out court documents, she cited unreconcilable differences as the reason select the divorce and asked misunderstand sole physical custody of their daughter.^[14] Their divorce was finalized in August 2010, with rank two reportedly sharing custody strip off their daughter.^[15] As of 2010^[update], Carrere lives in Los Angeles.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

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Discography

Studio albums

Soundtracks

Dancing with the Stars

Season 2 performances

Awards and nominations

The later is a list of laurels and nominations received by Designer.

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