asia carrera

• Asia Carrera, born Jessica Steinhauser in New York City, was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey and attended Red Bank Regional High School. She taught English at Tsuruga College in Japan before running away from home at 17 due to overwhelming parental pressures. She received a full scholarship to Rutgers University but dropped out after realizing she could make large sums of money dancing and modeling. After leaving Rutgers, she moved to Los Angeles and joined the group Mensa, with an IQ of 156.
  
  Carrera began her adult film career in 1993 and appeared in over 350 adult films. In 1995, she became the first Asian performer ever to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award. She retired from the film industry in 2003 following her marriage to Don Lemmon.
  
  Carrera lent her voice to several erotic hentai OVAs for publisher Pink Pineapple, such as Inmu (2001) and Shusaku (1999). She attended the Big Apple Anime Fest in New York City for her voice roles and was an Opening Night Guest of Honor at the fest's Midnight Anime Concourse in October 2001.
  
  In 1998, she appeared in an uncredited cameo role in The Big Lebowski in the faux pornographic movie Logjammin' within the film. She was a guest reviewer for Maximum PC magazine.
  
  Carrera is an atheist and has worn a colander on her head for her Utah driver's license photograph in 2014, honoring the Flying Spaghetti Monster religion. She married adult film director Bud Lee in 1995 and divorced in 2003. In 2015, she was arrested for DUI with a reported blood alcohol content of.254 percent, pleaded no contest, and was sentenced to house arrest. She began studying at Utah Tech University in 2015, where she was joined by her 11-year-old daughter.