Tia Carrere Biography And Filmography:

Tia Carrere , the exotic, sexy hot actress who won national attention as Cassandra, the guitar-playing, kick-boxing "babe" in the 1992 smash-hit, "Wayne's World" with Mike Myers. Carrere started working as a model and television commercial actress which led to her being cast in numerous guest appearances on such series as "The A-Team" and "MacGyver". Tia Carrere made her feature introduction in the horror film, "Zombie Terror" (1987). Much of Carrere's early film work consisted of portraying "the girl" in action films like "Showdown in Little Tokyo" (1991) and "Fatal Mission" (1990). Carrere was finally able to show some of her her comic and musical abilities in "Wayne's World", and was given a chance to play a more brainy side when cast as Jingo Asakuma in Philip Kaufman's thriller "Rising Sun" (1993) with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, where at the offices of a Japanese corporation during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex.

Carrere's career trajectory continued on course with appearances in "Wayne's World 2" (1993) and director James Cameron's spy action thriller "True Lies" (1994) with Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger about a secret agent, in the James Bond style, whose wife Helen and family think he is a computer salesman. When Helen seeks out a life of excitement in the arms of another man, Harry sets out to give her the excitement she craves while simultaneously battling Arab terrorists in possession of an atomic bomb and causing his rival in love to change his trousers. Then Carrere began winning larger leading roles in smaller movies, appearing in a series of routine thrillers and comedic flops. 

Carrere teamed with her husband, Los Angeles restaurateur-turned-movie-producer Elie Samaha to try to create film vehicles for herself, but won little attention except for a reality based independent "20 Dates" (1998), in which she goes out on a video date with filmmaker Myles Berkowitz.  In 1999 Carrere took the starring role in the syndicated action adventure television series "Relic Hunter," playing globe-hunting, black-belted archeology professor Sydney Fox. The series aired internationally until 2002, the same year Carrere's career got a boost with a role where her smooth voice breathed life into Lilo's struggling older sister Nani in Disney's Hawaiian themed animated feature film "Lilo & Stitch", where a Hawaiian girl adopts an unusual pet who is actually an notorious extra-terrestrial fugitive from the law. 

Still, Tia Carrere had not entirely embraced family-friendly movies: having carefully avoided nude scenes in the past despite her sex symbol status, Tia appeared nude in a major photo feature in the January 2003 issue of "Playboy Magazine". It seemed that everybody suddenly wanted to see Tia Carrere nude. The nude photo shoot and subsequent naked centerfold layout, made that months addition of Playboy Magazine one of the fastest selling issues in Playboy history. It seemed that Tia Carrere made a good Playmate. 

The intense interest in Tia Carrere was transformed after the nude photo spread, she began a recurring voiceover roles as the Martian Queen on the animated “Duck Dodgers” (2003-2005), and returned to live action with a leading role in the Lifetime movie “Torn Apart” (2004), playing a doctor whose husband and daughter are kidnapped by a malicious madman, forcing her to decide who will live and who will die. In “Supernova” (2005), Tia was cast as a tough government agent assigned to guard over a young scientist (Luke Perry) who discovers that a meteor struck the sun, which will result in a catastrophic supernova. 

Carrere next joined eight other celebrities in an effort not to embarrass themselves on “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC, 2005- ), a live ballroom dancing competition that pairs celebrities with professional dancers to perform the Quickstep, Fox Trot and Paso Doble, among other dances. Carrere displayed beauty, grace and charm during the course of her run, but was voted off midway through the competition.

Carrere then spent some time back on the television screen, appearing in guest spots on "The O.C." with Adam Brody and Mischa Barton, "Back to You", "Nip/Tuck" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm". 

Tia Carrere roared back the following year in a lead role in "Dark Honeymoon" (2008), about a man who marries a seductive woman after a brief but intense relationship but during their honeymoon on the Oregon coast he uncovers the terrible truth about his new wife. Next was the comedy "Hard Breakers" (2009), a funny comedy centered on two single girls working the dating scene in Los Angeles. Carrere wrapped her year starring with Rob Schneider in the comedy "Wild Cherry" (2009), where a virgin high school senior decides to get revenge on her jock boyfriend when she discovers he's only dating her in hopes that she'll end up in his teams' "bang book".

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