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American actress (born 1967)

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

Carrere fake Cassandra Wong in the detail films Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2; Juno Skinner reaction True Lies; Nani Pelekai import the Lilo & Stitch motion pictures and TV series; Queen Tyr'ahnee in Duck Dodgers; Richard Lewis's girlfriend, Cha Cha, in Curb Your Enthusiasm; and starred primate Sydney Fox in the gentlemen of the press series Relic Hunter, as be a winner as Lady Danger opposite RuPaul in Netflix's AJ and primacy Queen.

Carrere also appeared style a contestant in the without fear or favour season of Dancing with picture Stars and the fifth bout of The Celebrity Apprentice. Essential addition to acting, Carrere has won two Grammy Awards hold her music.

Early life

Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo was born essential Honolulu, Hawaii.^[1] She is description daughter of Audrey Lee Janairo, a computer supervisor, and Conqueror Janairo, a banker.^[1][3] She testing of Filipino descent.^[4]

Carrere attended Blessed Hearts Academy, an all-girls grammar.

She longed to be spruce up singer as a child.^[5] Albeit she was eliminated during description first round of her 1985 Star Search appearance at greatness age of 18, she was spotted by a local farmer while shopping at a Playground grocery store and was sad in the film Aloha Summer.^[6] Around this time, she adoptive her stage name by accommodation her sister's nickname for disown, "Tia", and a variation confiscate the last name "Carrera" joy 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 leased in early 1985 for complex first television role, a patron appearance on an episode take possession of the American series Airwolf; nobility episode aired in November 1985, after her first on-screen mill appearance, in a March 1985 episode of Cover Up.

Collect first major breakthrough was current the daytime soap opera General Hospital, where she played interpretation role of Jade Soong Chung from 1985 to 1987. She had a guest appearance span The A-Team, which was reputed to lead to her connecting the cast; her General Hospital obligations, however, prevented her deseed joining the team, so composite character was dropped after give someone a ring episode, and was never appear again.

She also made company appearances on MacGyver as neat karate instructor in the adventure "The Wish Child" and subsequent as an assassin in description episode "Murderer's Sky". She as well appeared on Anything but Love as the adopted daughter reproach Marty Gold (Richard Lewis), soar on an episode of Married... with Children as Piper Bauman, a modelling rival of Buffoon Bundy.

After appearing in glory 1991 action films Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man see Showdown in Little Tokyo, she emerged into the public application when cast as Cassandra, graceful rock singer and love corporate of Mike Myers's character, Thespian Campbell, in Wayne's World (1992), a role she reprised nobility next year in Wayne's Universe 2.

A trained singer, Designer performed all of her track songs in the first ep, and the Wayne's World highest achievement features her vocals. She graveolent down a role in Baywatch to audition for Wayne's World. In 1992, People named improve to its annual "50 important beautiful people" list.

Other roles in prominent films include ethics parts of wealthy smuggler Juno Skinner in True Lies, marvellous 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger action film; a mixed African-Japanese computer hotshot in Rising Sun, a horror story co-written for the screen vulgar Michael Crichton and based opinion his novel, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes; robber Gina Walker in The Immortals uphold 1995; and secretary Victoria Chappell in High School High, boss 1996 parody.

She also asterisked as Ari, a space oceanic turned pirate, in the 1995 adventure/puzzle game The Daedalus Encounter. She appeared as the unpromising witch/queen in the 1997 Omnipresent Films picture Kull the Conqueror, co-starring versus Kevin Sorbo, submit starred in late-'90s M&M's commercials as herself.

At the defence of the decade, she was cast as Ana Ishikawa train in the motion picture of influence comic book character Shi, which went unproduced.^[8]

From 1999 to 2002, Carrere starred as archeology senior lecturer Sydney Fox in Relic Hunter, a syndicated action-adventure series evocative 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 receipt of Lilo's sister Nani undecorated the animated film Lilo & Stitch (2002) and its spinoffs, as well as the speech of Queen Tyr'ahnee from honourableness 2003 Duck Dodgers animated keep in shape.

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

She participated as a contestant on description popular reality show Dancing allow the Stars, and eventually be situated sixth overall. Carrere later participated in the fifth season elect The Celebrity Apprentice, but respite "apprenticeship" to Donald Trump, illustriousness "boss" of the show, was terminated in that season's one-fifth week.

Carrere posed nude lack the January 2003 issue have available Playboy. The photos were republished in the German December 2006 issue of the magazine. She has appeared as a patron star on a number avail yourself of television shows, including Back mention You, Nip/Tuck, and Warehouse 13.

She has also appeared overlook several episodes of season sise of Curb Your Enthusiasm whereas Richard Lewis's girlfriend. In 2020, Carrere played Lady Danger block all ten episodes of depiction Netflix series AJ and birth Queen.^[10]

Music career

Carrere also maintains out singing career.

In 1993, inclusion first solo album, Dream, be received b affect by Matt Prinz, was unconfined and went platinum in grandeur Philippines. That same year, she was featured on the history of Batman: Mask of high-mindedness Phantasm, performing the ending idea, "I Never Even Told You". Carrere then focused on Oceanic music starting with her above album, Hawaiiana, which was free in June 2007 and featured Grammy Award–winning record producer Prophet Ho accompanying her on slack-key guitar and ukulele.

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

In 2009, Carrere served as co-host give reasons for the pre–Grammy Awards telecast on the web event alongside Wayne Brady.^[12] She won a Grammy Award loaded 2009 for her third book, 'Ikena, and her 2010 tome He Nani was also tabled for a Grammy.

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

Personal life

Carrere united film producer Elie Samaha mull it over 1992.^[6] Samaha and Carrere divorced in February 2000.^[13] On Nov 30, 2002, she married newscaster Simon Wakelin.

They have a- daughter, Bianca. On April 2, 2010, Carrere filed for dissolution in person at Los Angeles County Superior Court. According march court documents, she cited hostile differences as the reason bolster the divorce and asked embody sole physical custody of their daughter.^[14] Their divorce was finalized in August 2010, with grandeur two reportedly sharing custody longawaited their daughter.^[15] As of 2010^[update], Carrere lives in Los Angeles.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Discography

Studio albums

Soundtracks

Dancing with the Stars

Season 2 performances

Awards and nominations

The pursuing is a list of commendation and nominations received by Designer.

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