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American actress

Tia Carrere

Tia Carrere 2009.jpg

Carrere in September 2009

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Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo


(1967-01-02) January 2, 1967 (historic period 55)

Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.

Occupation
  • Actress
  • vocalizer
Years active 1985–present
Spouse(s)
  • Elie Samaha

    (m. 1992; div. )

  • Simon Wakelin

    (m. ; div. )

Children 1
Musical career
Genres Hawaiian
Instruments Vocals
Years active 1992–present
Labels Daniel Ho Creations
Associated acts Daniel Ho

Musical artist

Website world wide web.tiacarrere.com Edit this at Wikidata

Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo [i] (born Jan 2, 1967),[2] known professionally every bit Tia Carrere (), is an American actress, singer and old model who got her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.

Carrere played Cassandra Wong in the characteristic films Wayne'south World and Wayne's World two; Juno Skinner in True Lies; Nani Pelekai in the Lilo & Sew together films and TV series; Queen Tyr'ahnee in Duck Dodgers; Richard Lewis's girlfriend, Cha Cha, in Curb Your Enthusiasm; and starred every bit Sydney Play a trick on in the goggle box series Relic Hunter, as well as Lady Danger opposite RuPaul in Netflix's AJ and the Queen. Carrere also appeared equally a contestant in the second season of Dancing with the Stars and the fifth flavour of The Celebrity Apprentice. In addition to interim, Carrere has won ii Grammy Awards for her music.

Early life [edit]

Carrere was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.[1] She is the daughter of Audrey Lee Janairo, a calculator supervisor and Alexander Janairo, a banker.[one] [3] Co-ordinate to Carrere, she is of Castilian, Chinese and Filipino ancestry.[4]

Carrere attended Sacred Hearts Academy, an all-girls school. She longed to be a vocalizer as a kid.[5] Though she was eliminated during the first round of her 1985 Star Search appearance at the age of 17, she was spotted by a local producer while shopping at a Waikiki grocery store and was cast in the movie Aloha Summer.[6] At around this time, she adopted her stage proper name by using her sis's nickname for her, "Tia" and using a variation of the concluding name "Carrera" in tribute to actress Barbara Carrera.[vii]

Film and tv set career [edit]

Following this success, Carrere returned to Los Angeles, and after working several months as a model, landed her first office in the American television series Airwolf in early 1985. Her first major quantum was in the daytime soap opera General Hospital. She played the part of Jade Soong Chung from 1985 to 1987. She also had a guest appearance on Tour of Duty and The A-Team, which was supposed to lead to her joining the cast; her General Hospital obligations, nonetheless, prevented her from joining the team. Her character was dropped after ane episode, and was never mentioned over again. She also made guest appearances on the shows MacGyver ("The Wish Child") as a karate instructor, and a different assassin character in a later episode ("Murderer's Heaven"), on Anything just Honey equally the adopted daughter of Marty Golden (Richard Lewis), and on Married... with Children as Piper Bauman, a rival of Kelly Bundy, who attempted to steal a modeling job from her.

Afterwards appearing in the 1991 action films Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Human and Showdown in Little Tokyo, she emerged into the public spotlight when cast every bit Cassandra, a stone vocalizer and love involvement of Mike Myers's grapheme, Wayne Campbell, in Wayne's World (1992), a role she reprised the next year in Wayne'south Earth 2. A trained vocalist, Carrere performed all of her own songs in the first film, and the Wayne's Earth soundtrack features her vocals. She turned down a role in Baywatch to audition for Wayne's Earth. In 1992, People named her to its almanac "50 nigh beautiful people" list.

Other roles in prominent films include the parts of wealthy smuggler Juno Skinner in True Lies, a 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger activeness film; a mixed African-Japanese calculator expert in Rising Sunday, a thriller co-written for the screen past Michael Crichton and based on his novel, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes; robber Gina Walker in The Immortals in 1995; and secretarial assistant Victoria Chappell in High School High, a 1996 parody. She also starred as Ari, a space marine turned pirate, in the 1995 gamble/puzzle game The Daedalus Encounter. She also starred equally the evil witch/queen in the 1997 Universal Films picture Kull the Conqueror, co-starring versus Kevin Sorbo, and starred in late-'90s Thousand&Thousand'due south commercials every bit herself. At the end of the decade, she was bandage as Ana Ishikawa in the motion flick of the comic book character Shi, but the film wasn't concreted.[viii]

Carrere at the premiere for Upwards in May 2009

From 1999 to 2002, Carrere starred as archaeology professor Sydney Fox in Relic Hunter, a syndicated action-take a chance series strongly reminiscent of the Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider films and video games. At this time, Carrere was featured in the men'southward magazine Maxim. Relic Hunter lasted for a total of three contracted tv seasons. Carrere so provided the phonation of Lilo'due south sis Nani in the animated film Lilo & Stitch (2002) and its spinoffs, besides as the voice of Queen Tyr'ahnee from the 2003 Duck Dodgers animated serial. She also provided the voice of Snookie in the 2005 animated film Aloha, Scooby-Doo! [9]

She participated every bit a contestant on the pop reality evidence Dancing with the Stars, and eventually placed sixth overall. Carrere later participated in the fifth season of The Glory Apprentice, but her "apprenticeship" to Donald Trump, the "boss" of the bear witness, was terminated in that season's 5th week.

Carrere posed nude for the January 2003 event of Playboy. The photos were republished in the German December 2006 issue of the magazine. She has appeared every bit a guest star on a number of television shows, including Back to You, Nip/Tuck, and Warehouse 13. She has also appeared in several episodes of season six of Curb Your Enthusiasm as Richard Lewis'south girlfriend. In 2020, Carrere began a regular role as Lady Danger on the Netflix series AJ and the Queen. [10]

Music career [edit]

Carrere at the Filipino American Library Spirit Awards

Carrere has continued to nurture her singing career. In 1993, her commencement solo album, Dream, produced past Matt Prinz, was released, and went platinum in the Philippines. That same yr, she was featured on the soundtrack of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, performing the ending theme, "I Never Even Told You lot". Her second album, Hawaiiana, was released in June 2007 and takes Carrere back to her Hawaiian roots with four-time Grammy Award-winning record producer Daniel Ho accompanying her on classic solo slack-cardinal guitar and ukulele. The album was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Honour under the category Best Hawaiian Music Album.[11]

In 2009, she acted as co-host for the pre-Grammy Awards telecast online event aslope Wayne Brady.[12] She won a Grammy Award in 2009 for her tertiary album 'Ikena, which was too produced by Ho, and was a finalist in 2010 for He Nani, the tertiary album she had recorded with Ho as her producer. In 2011, she won another Grammy Award (Best Hawaiian Music Album) for her album Huana Ke Aloha.

Personal life [edit]

Carrere married moving-picture show producer Elie Samaha in 1992.[6] Samaha and Carrere divorced in February 2000.[xiii]

On November 30, 2002, she married photojournalist Simon Wakelin. They accept a girl. On April 2, 2010, Carrere filed for divorce in person at Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom. According to courtroom documents she cited irreconcilable differences equally the reason for the divorce and asked for sole physical custody of their daughter.[xiv] Their divorce was finalized in August 2010, with the two of them reportedly sharing custody of their daughter.[fifteen] She lives in Los Angeles.

Filmography [edit]

Film [edit]

Year Championship Part Notes
1987 Zombie Nightmare Amy
1988 Aloha Summer Lani Acting debut[Note 1]
1989 Fine Gold Stella
1990 Enemy Mai Chang Direct-to-video
1991 Showdown in Piddling Tokyo Minako Okeya
1991 Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Human being Kimiko
1992 Wayne'south World Cassandra Wong
1992 Little Sister Adrienne
1993 Rise Sun Jingo Asakuma
1993 Quick Janet Sakamoto Direct-to-video
1993 Treacherous Dr. Jessica Jamison Straight-to-video
1993 Wayne's World 2 Cassandra Wong
1994 True Lies Juno Skinner
1995 Jury Duty Monica Lewis
1995 The Immortals Gina Walker Directly-to-video also Associate Producer
1995 Hostile Intentions Nora Straight-to-video
1996 Hollow Bespeak Diane Norwood
1996 Loftier School Loftier Victoria Chapell
1996 Natural Enemy Christina Straight-to-video
1997 Kull the Conqueror Akivasha
1997 Top of the World Rebecca Mercer
1998 Scar City Candy
1998 twenty Dates Herself (uncredited) Executive Producer
1999 My Instructor's Wife Vicky Mueller
1999 Five Aces Karen Haggerty Directly-to-video
1999 If...Dog...Rabbit Direct-to-video, Co-Executive Producer
2000 Merlin: The Return Dr. Joan Maxwell
2002 Lilo & Stitch Nani Pelekai (vocalism office)
2002 Meet Prince Mannerly Samantha Feld
2003 Stitch! The Movie Nani Pelekai (voice office) Direct-to-video
2005 Aloha, Scooby-Doo! Snookie (vocalism role) Directly-to-video
2005 Dorsum in the Day Loot Straight-to-video
2005 Lilo & Run up 2: Stitch Has a Glitch Nani Pelekai (voice role) Direct-to-video
2006 Leroy & Stitch Nani Pelekai (voice office) Directly-to-video
2008 Dark Honeymoon Miranda Direct-to-video
2009 Wild Cerise Ms. Jane Haumea
2010 Hard Breakers Jodie
2011 Y'all May Not Kiss the Helpmate Lani
2012 Collision Grade Kate Parks
2013 Final Recourse Michelle Gaines also Associate Producer
2014 Gunshot Straight Leanne Straight-to-video
2015 Pirates Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson Kelly
2015 Behind Palm Swings Cherry Bomb Short film
2015 Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest Jezebel Jade (vocalisation role) Straight-to-video
2016 Business Unusual Ella Curt picture
2016 Showdown in Manila Mrs. Catherine Wells
2016 The Girl Female parent
2017 Palm Swings Ms. Cherry Flop
2018 The Legend of Hallowaiian Nana (voice office) Direct-to-video
TBR Felo de se Kirsty
TBA Easter Sunday

Television [edit]

Twelvemonth Championship Part Notes
1985 Cover Up Philippines Contestant Episode: "Who's Trying to Kill Miss Earth?"
1985 Covenant Girl at Golden Calf Television pic
1985 Airwolf Kiki Tinabi television receiver debut
Episode: "Annie Oakley"
1985-1986 General Hospital Jade Soong recurring office; sixteen episodes
1986 The A-Team Tia Episode: "The Sound of Thunder"
1986 MacGyver Lisa Chan Episode: "The Wish Child"
1987-1988 The New Hollywood Squares Herself (Panelist) 4 episodes
1987 Tour of Duty Lang Episode: "Dislocations"
1988 Noble House Venus Poon Television Miniseries; 4 episodes
1988 MacGyver Tiu Episode: "Murderer's Sky"
1989 The Road Raiders Cyanne Television movie
1989 Anything Only Love Cey Episode: "Those Lips, Those Thais"
1990 Friday the 13th: The Series Michiko Tanaka Episode: "Year of the Monkey"
1990 Breakthrough Jump Chu-Hoi Episode: "The Leap Home: Role two (Vietnam)"
1990 Married...with Children Piper Bauman Episode: "Kelly Bounces Dorsum"
1991 Intimate Stranger Mina Television movie
1992 Tales from the Crypt Scarlett Episode: "On a Deadman's Chest"
1995 Zero But the Truth Simone Gideon Television movie
1995-1996 Murder One Beverly Nichols recurring role; 3 episodes
1996 Desert Breeze unknown function Television moving-picture show
1997 Happily Ever Afterwards: Fairy Tales for Every Child Mija (voice role) Episode: "The Fiddling Mermaid"
1998 Dogboys District Attorney Jennifer Dern Television movie
1998 Veronica's Closet Kim Episode: "Veronica's on the Herb"
1998 Hercules Marigold (voice office) Episode: "Hercules and the Golden Affect"
1999 The Nighttime of the Headless Horseman Katrina Van Tassel (voice role) Television picture
1999-2002 Relic Hunter Sydney Fox Protagonist; 66 episodes
2000-2001 Hollywood Squares Herself (Panelist) fifteen episodes
2001 The Examination Herself (Panelist) Episode: "The Libido Test"
2003-2005 Duck Dodgers Queen Tyr'ahnee - The Martian Queen (vox role) series regular; 20 episodes
2003-2006 Lilo & Stitch: The Series Nani Pelekai (voice role) serial regular; 18 episodes
2004 Johnny Bravo Herself/additional voices (vocalism role) recurring role; iv episodes
2004 Megas XLR Darklos (vocalisation function) Episode: "DMV: Section of Megas Violations"
2004 Torn Apart Vicki Westin Television film
2005 Supernova Lisa Delgado Boob tube movie
2005 American Dragon: Jake Long Yan Yan (voice role) Episode: "Fu and Tell"
2006 The O.C. Dean Torres Episode: "The Gringos"
2006 Dancing with the Stars Herself (contestant) eight episodes
2007 Back to You Maggie Episode: "A Night of Possibilities"
2007 Nip/Tuck Mistress Dark Pain Episode: "Carly Summers"
2007 Curb Your Enthusiasm Cha Cha recurring role; 3 episodes
2008 Untitled Liz Meriwether Project Paula Poland Idiot box movie
2009 CSI: Miami Jacqueline Parsons Episode: "Bolt Action"
2010 Warehouse 13 Agent Katie Logan 2 episodes
2010 Iron Chef America: The Series Herself (Invitee Judge) Episode: "Michael Symons vs. Makoto Okuwa: Uni"
2011 Truthful Justice Lisa Clayton 2 episodes
2011 Gainsay Hospital Jessica Draycott Episode: "It's My Party"
2011-2013 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Amy Cavenaugh/Judy Reeves (voice role) series regular; 14 episodes
2012 In Manifestly Sight Lia Hernandez recurring office; iv episodes
2012 The Apprentice Herself (Contestant) 14 episodes
2013 The Birthday Boys Herself Episode: "Cool Machine"
2014 Asteroid vs Earth Marissa Knox Television flick
2014 Uncle Grandpa Isle Girl (vocalisation office) Episode: "Vacation"
2015 Hawaii Five-0 Makana Kalakauna 2 episodes
2016 Family Guy Hawaiian Woman (vocalisation role) Episode: "An App a Day"
2017 Mickey and the Roadster Racers Auntie Olina (phonation part) 3 episodes
2017 Blue Bloods Grub Lin Episode: "The Enemy Of My Enemy"
2018 Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters Officer Santos/Mechanica (vox role) 3 episodes
2019 Dollface Teresa Episode: "Fun Friend"
2020 AJ and the Queen Lady Danger Series Regular
2020 The Eric Andre Show Herself

Video games [edit]

Yr Championship Part Notes
1995 The Daedalus Encounter Ari Matheson
2006 Saints Row Lin (voice part)
2013 Saints Row IV Lin (voice role) Cut content

Discography [edit]

Studio albums [edit]

  • Dream (1993)
  • Hawaiiana (2007)[16]
  • 'Ikena (with Daniel Ho, 2008)[17]
  • He Nani (with Daniel Ho, 2009)[18]
  • Huana Ke Aloha (2010)[nineteen]

Soundtracks [edit]

Wayne's Globe: Music from the Move Picture (1992)

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm The Animated Movie Original Movement Picture Soundtrack (1993)

Dancing with the Stars [edit]

Flavour 2 performances [edit]

Week # Dance / Vocal Judges' scores Effect
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Flit / "What a Wonderful World" 6 7 7 Lesser two
2 Rumba / "Emotion" 7 eight seven Rubber
3 Tango / "Por una Cabeza" ix viii 9 Condom
4 Foxtrot / "Dream a Picayune Dream of Me" nine eight 8 Lesser two
five Samba / "No More Tears (Plenty Is Plenty)" 7 vii eight Eliminated
Group Salsa / "Rhythm is Gonna Go You lot" No scores given

Awards and nominations [edit]

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Carrere

Year Title Accolade Category Outcome Ref
1992 Wayne'south World MTV Flick + Tv Honor Virtually Desirable Female Nominated [20] [ unreliable source? ]
1994 Northward/A ShoWest Convention Award Female Star of Tomorrow Won
1995 Truthful Lies MTV Moving picture + TV Award All-time Dance Sequence (shared with Arnold Schwarzenegger) Nominated
1995 True Lies Saturn Award All-time Supporting Actress Nominated
2001 Relic Hunter ALMA Laurels Outstanding Lead Actress in a Syndicated Drama Series Nominated
2006 Dorsum in the Day DVD Exclusive Award Best Supporting Actress in a DVD Premiere Motion-picture show Nominated
2007 Hawaiiana Grammy Award Best Hawaiian Music Album Nominated
2008 Ikena Grammy Award Best Hawaiian Music Album Won
2009 He Nani Grammy Award All-time Hawaiian Music Album Nominated
2010 Huana Ke Aloha Grammy Award Best Hawaiian Music Album Won

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Aloha Summer was filmed in 1984.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Tia Carrere". TVGuide.com. Archived from the original on May 6, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  2. ^ "UPI Annual for Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019". United Press International. Jan two, 2019. Archived from the original on September two, 2019. Retrieved September 2, 2019. actor Tia Carrere in 1967 (age 52)
  3. ^ "Tia Carrere Biography (1965—)". Picture show Reference.
  4. ^ Vancheri, Barbara (August 6, 1993). "From 'Wayne's World' to 'Sun'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pennsylvania. Retrieved Oct 4, 2017 – via The Hutchinson News.
  5. ^ Beruschy, Brian (May twenty, 2007). "Introducing Tia Carrere: Hawaiian Songstress and Fan of B on Hawaii". B on Hawaii. Retrieved June four, 2015.
  6. ^ a b Brady, James (June 4, 1995). "In Footstep with Tia Carrere". Parade. Toledo Blade. p. 26. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
  7. ^ "What Happened to 'Wayne's World' Star Tia Carrere?".
  8. ^ "TMe: SHI moving picture gear up for Spring 2000 release". Retrieved March 28, 2019.
  9. ^ Mattern, Joanne (August 15, 2010). Hawaii: By and Present. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 32. ISBN978-1-4358-9479-2 . Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  10. ^ "Tia Carrere Says New Villainous Role On 'AJ & The Queen' Is A Part She'due south Always Wanted To Play". world wide web.msn.com . Retrieved March nineteen, 2020.
  11. ^ Spencer, Ashley. "What Happened to 'Wayne'due south Earth' Star Tia Carrere?". Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  12. ^ "Tia Carrere – Grammy Fascinating Fact: – Contactmusic News". www.contactmusic.com. February 8, 2009. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
  13. ^ "Tia Carrere Gives Birth to Infant Girl". PEOPLE.com . Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  14. ^ "Tia Carrere Files For Divorce". TMZ.com. Retrieved Apr 2, 2010.
  15. ^ "'Wayne'south' star finalizes divorce". Toronto Sun. Baronial nineteen, 2010. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
  16. ^ "hawaiiana". Tia Carrere . Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  17. ^ "'ikena". Tia Carrere . Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  18. ^ "He Nani". Tia Carrere . Retrieved Feb 28, 2015.
  19. ^ "Huana Ke Aloha". Tia Carrere . Retrieved Feb 28, 2015.
  20. ^ "Tia Carrere". IMDb . Retrieved Baronial 26, 2018.

External links [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tia_Carrere

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