Tia Carrere appeared as a contestant in the second season of Dancing with the Stars and the fifth season of The Celebrity Apprentice.
18 Facts About Tia Carrere
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Tia Carrere is the daughter of Audrey Lee Janairo, a computer supervisor, and Alexander Janairo, a banker.
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At around this time, she adopted her stage name by using her sister's nickname for her, "Tia Carrere" and using a variation of the last name "Carrera" in tribute to actress Barbara Carrera.
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Tia Carrere played the role of Jade Soong Chung from 1985 to 1987.
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Tia Carrere 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 prevented her from joining the team.
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Tia Carrere's character was dropped after one episode, and was never mentioned again.
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Tia Carrere made guest appearances on MacGyver as a karate instructor in the episode "The Wish Child" and later as an assassin in the episode "Murderer's Sky".
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Tia Carrere appeared on Anything but Love as the adopted daughter of Marty Gold, and on an episode of Married.
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Tia Carrere turned down a role in Baywatch to audition for Wayne's World.
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From 1999 to 2002, Tia Carrere starred as archeology professor Sydney Fox in Relic Hunter, a syndicated action-adventure series strongly reminiscent of the Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider films and video games.
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Tia Carrere participated as a contestant on the popular reality show Dancing with the Stars, and eventually placed sixth overall.
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Tia Carrere later participated in the fifth season of The Celebrity Apprentice, but her "apprenticeship" to Donald Trump, the "boss" of the show, was terminated in that season's fifth week.
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Tia Carrere posed nude for the January 2003 issue of Playboy.
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Tia Carrere has appeared in several episodes of season six of Curb Your Enthusiasm as Richard Lewis's girlfriend.
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In 2020, Tia Carrere played Lady Danger in all ten episodes of the Netflix series AJ and the Queen.
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Tia Carrere then focused on Hawaiian music starting with her second album, Hawaiiana, which was released in June 2007 and featured Grammy Award-winning record producer Daniel Ho accompanying her on slack-key guitar and ukulele.
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In 2009, Tia Carrere served as co-host for the pre-Grammy Awards telecast online event alongside Wayne Brady.
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Tia Carrere won a Grammy Award in 2009 for her third album Ikena, and her 2010 album He Nani was nominated for a Grammy.