Asia Carrera

About Asia Carrera

Asia Carrera (born August 6, 1973 in New York City) is a former American porn star and adult model of German and Japanese descent.

Asia was born in New York City to a Japanese father and German mother. She was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey, attending Little Silver Public Schools and Red Bank Regional High School. 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 pressure on her to succeed academically. She won an academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa.

After doing at least one photoshoot for an adult magazine, she put together a demo porn tape in 1993. At the end of that year she relocated to California to break into the pornography business. Because of her beauty, she was quickly signed with Vivid and became one of their most popular and famous Vivid Girls.

After her contract with Vivid expired in the mid-1990s, Asia wanted to show her more wild side and had her right labia minora pierced and has henceforth had a variety of 1/2" gold rings affixed there ever since. At this time she also had her first breast enlargement, going from a medium B to at least a full C cup. She has had at least one subsequent breast surgery and is now a D cup or larger. She also underwent rhinoplasty on her nose.

Asia has performed only a few anal sex scenes, again waiting for her contract with Vivid to expire to do her first scene in the movie A Is for Asia (1995). While anal sex pays better, Asia stated that, while she found it enjoyable, it wasn’t something she did in her personal life a great deal and had no interest in becoming an “anal queen” in the industry.

Asia said she enjoyed having sex with women more than men during her adult career since it was not something she did in her personal life and porn allowed her to explore her bisexuality with beautiful women.

In 1995, Carrera married adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003 after a long separation, but continue to remain good friends. Asia dated Clarke, 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. While she was almost 8 months pregnant with their second baby, Don was killed in a car accident near Las Vegas on June 10, 2006.

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. She gave birth to her son at home unassisted. She and Don 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 prior to the estimated due date, while a midwife was en route.

As is common practice among adult film actresses, the name "Asia Carrera" is a pseudonym. According to interviews, she chose the stage name surname from actress Tia Carrere, intentionally misspelling it for legal reasons.

Freeones.com ranked her as the 4th greatest pornstar of the 1990s and the 2nd greatest Asian-American pornstar.

Awards/Nominations:
1995 AVN Female Performer of the Yea
2000 AVN Best Couples Sex Scene – Film (Search for the Snow Leopard)
2000 AVN Award nominee - Best Actress – Film
2001 AVN Hall of Fame inductee
2007 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee – XRCO Members' Choice