Hawaiian-born Tia Carrere is of Filipino, Chinese, Spanish and Hawaiian ancestry.

Her childhood dream was to be a singer. She joined Star Search in 1985 but was eliminated after the first round.

In 1993, Carrere released her first solo album, Dream, which went platinum in the Philippines. Ten years later, she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

In 2007, Carrere released her second album, Hawaiiana which featured Grammy winner Daniel Ho on slack-key guitar and ukulele. This album went on to be nominated in the 2008 Grammys for Best Hawaiian Music Album.

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You know there’s something wrong with your sense of style when you choose a print that looks like two kinds of bacteria. You don’t need a microscope to see that this dress is ugly.

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Tia Carrere

Tia was discovered outside a grocery store in Waikiki after leaving a photo shoot. This led to her being cast as the lead in Aloha Summer.

In 2003, Tia Carrere was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Philippine president Gloria Arroyo.

1993 Tia Carrere's first solo album in 1993, Dream, went platinum in the Philippines.

Tia was offered a role on Baywatch, but turned it down for her role as "Cassandra" in Wayne's World.

She has a recording studio in her house.

Tia had a body double used in nude hot tub scene in the film Showdown in Little Tokyo.

Studied acting in the same class with actor Casper Van Dien.

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If you really have to go plain and simple, at least wear jaw dropping jewelry that can spice up the dress. It can do wonders to safe dresses like this red strapless number of Tia. 

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Tia Carrere has hit out at the dwindling career options of actresses in Hollywood, after being cast as the girlfriend of an actor who once played her father. The 40-year-old starred as the daughter of 59-year-old actor Richard Lewis' character in 1989 TV show Anything But Love - she now plays his girlfriend in Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Carrere says, "I play Richard Lewis's girlfriend, a character named Cha-Cha. What's funny is that 18 years ago I played Richard Lewis's daughter in Anything But Love. In another couple of years I'm going to be playing his mother, I think. It's the trajectory of a female career in this business."

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This is the part where I wish the De Lorean, the home made time machine in the movie Back to the Future was for real. That way we can transport all the fashion offenders back into time, a time where their fashion statements probably made sense because I am just dying here looking at Tia's outdated outfit.

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"When you're an actress, you feel like you have to constantly be running, running on the treadmill, or you're going to miss an opportunity." -Tia Carrere

You have to constantly run on the treadmill to burn what you have right now.

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With what she's wearing, she's better heard than seen. Stitch would be so proud.

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Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo or Tia Carerre is part Chinese, part Spanish, and part Filipino.

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Toy Story is definitely not making auditions for Woody's girlfriend.