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| Tia Carrere |
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"The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies."
| Date of Birth: January 2, 1967 |
| Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii |
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| She played Mike Myers' girlfriend Cassandra in Wayne's World, she was a sexy villain in True Lies and is now the star of Relic Hunter. |
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| Tia Carrere was built to be admired. As far as we're concerned, they should rename her homestate of Hawaii, Carrereland. Or name the Honolulu airport after her. Give her a statue, something, anything, please. |
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Althea Janairo was born January 2, 1967, in Honolulu, Hawaii. A mix of Hawaiian, Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino ancestry, young Althea is the eldest of two siblings.
We know her today as Tia since her younger sister Alesaundra had difficulty pronouncing Althea's name. Now with an easier name -- Tia -- the aspiring singer changed her last name to Carrera, apparently as a tribute to the actress Barbara Carrera.
By the age of 11, Tia was taking voice lessons to fulfill her dreams of becoming a singer, but fate played its part and Tia was discovered by the parents of a film producer while in a Waikiki grocery store, who thought she'd be perfect for their son's film, Aloha Summer.
With a desire to take her new acting career further, Tia headed to Los Angeles. While there, Tia had also begun to develop a modeling career, while several bit parts came her way. She appeared in popular television shows such as The A-Team, MacGyver, but hit it big when she was cast in the recurring role of nurse Jade Soong Chung, in the daytime soap, General Hospital in 1985. |
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