The beautiful actress, musician and singer Tia Carrere celebrates 58 today
Her big screen breakthrough role was as Cassandra, Wayne Campbell’s girlfriend in the 1992 comedy “Wayne’s World”
The beautiful actress, musician and singer Tia Carrere celebrates 58 today
The beautiful Tia Carrere was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on January 2, 1967, of Chinese, Filipino and Spanish ancestry. Tia started her acting career during the 1980’s getting her major breakthrough with the role of Jade Soong Chung on the soap opera General Hospital from 1985 to 1987. In 1991 she gets her first big role on the big screen, starring alongside Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson in the action movie Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. She emerged into the public spotlight when she played Cassandra, a rock singer and girlfriend of the Mike Myer’s character Wayne Campbell in the 1992 hit comedy “Wayne’s World” and it’s 1993 sequel “Wayne’s World 2”. She also appeared in the Arnold Swarchznegger 1994 film “True Lies” and throughout the 1990’s had several roles in other successful movies and TV series.
Most recently, she participated in the fifth season of The Celebrity Apprentice, but her apprenticeship to the show’s boss Donald Trump ended in that season’s fifth week. Aside of acting, Carrere has also engaged into music, and she’s been releasing music of her own since her 1993 debut album “Dream”, which went platinum in the Philippines. Her musical talent was awarded with a Grammy in 2009 for her third album Ikena. Tia Carrere, turning 58 today, also appeared alongside RuPaul on the American comedy television series (also co-created by RuPaul), AJ and the Queen, released on Netflix on January 10, 2020.
Look back at Tia Carrere playing her breakthrough role of Cassandra in Wayne’s World, 1992
Also watch Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho performing He Aloha Mele at the 2009 Grammy Awards Pre-Telecast where she was awarded a Grammy
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