Biography of Tia Carrere

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January 2, 1967
ALTHEA Rae Duhinio Janairo, aka Tia Carrere was born on January 2, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Philippine and Chinese sources, it seems that the name Tia comes from imperfect pronounce Alessandra's younger sister, who as a child could not pronounce the name Althea properly. She's noticed a young girl in a grocery store in Waikiki by Mike Greco, film producer who offers to participate in the film "Aloha Summer (1988). After some not very significant moves into California, Los Angels.
He's only 17 years old and begins to appear in a tv production, more precisely a telenovela. Due to its attractiveness does not disdain the work as a model. After some work (quote "Showdown in Little Tokyo" of 1991, with Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee) in 1992 arrives "Wayne's world" (Wayne's world), the first major motion picture: Tia Carrere appears in comedy in the role of a Chinese singer. His experience as a singer begins back in the 80 's as a singer of a rock band posing in Black Sabbath and AC/DC cover stock shots. At the same time rejects a role in the tv series Baywatch. The following year also appears in the sequel to "Wayne's world 2-I Waynestock" (Wayne's World 2), as well as in "rising sun" (by Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes and Harvey Keitel).
In November 1992, Lebanese producer Elie Samaha bride and Italy, which will produce some work of the actress before divorcing in 1999. The January 1993 sees Tia Carrere and his splendid physical on the cover of Playboy Magazine. In the same year he published an album entitled "Dream". In 1994 Tia plays the role of the "bad" in one of the nicest and funniest action-movie in decades: "True Lies" (by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis). Other films like "Kull the conqueror" (1997) and "Hercules" (1998), before getting to the tv series "Relic Hunter" (1999)-sent with good success in Italy-where Tia Carrere is the protagonist. His character is a kind of Indiana Jones in the feminine, but is actually inspired by the adventures of the videogame "Tomb Raider" and its heroine Lara Croft.

After obtaining a divorce from Elie Samaha, on December 31, 2002 married the photographer and journalist Simon Wakelin from whom she has a daughter, Bianca, born September 25, 2005. Currently Tia Carrere lives in Toronto, Canada.

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