Asia Carrera (born Jessica Andrea Steinhauser on August 6, 1973 in New York City, New York) is an adult film star. She entered the profession in 1993, and announced her retirement at the end of 2003. She is sometimes credited as Asia or Jessica Bennett.

She studied piano as a child, and had performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. When she was 16, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much academic pressure on her. She claims to have had her IQ tested at 155, was a salutatorian of her high school, won a scholarship at Rutgers, and be a member of Mensa, which would make her the only known one to have worked as an adult actress.

As is common practice among adult film actresses, the name "Asia Carrera" is a pseudonym. According to interviews, she choose the stage name after actress Tia Carrere, intentionally misspelling it for legal reasons.

Describing herself as "the nerd of porn," Carrera has an active presence on the Internet. She proudly proclaims that she created her own website in the late 1990s, including writing the code and editing the pictures. She is an avid player of Unreal Tournament and has designed her own skin, and was featured in the show Players on the G4 games cable channel, where she revealed that her screen name is "Megabitchgoddess." She is also a Corvette aficionado but traded hers in at the onset of starting a family.

Carrera married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19, 2003. Carrera's first husband was adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003 after a long separation. Carrera now lives in St. George, Utah with her husband and their first daughter, Catalina, born on March 4, 2005. Carrera is pregnant with their second child.

Filmography

• about 250 hardcore movies
• appeared (uncredited) in the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski
• body doubled for Jennifer Tilly in the movie Fast Sofa
• Filmography on Website (NOTE: Site contains adult content)