Asia Carrera born Jessica Steinhauser on August 6, 1973 is an American actress. Asia Carrera was born in New York City to a Japanese father and German mother, the eldest of four siblings. She was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey, attending the Little Silver School District and Red Bank Regional High School. She studied piano as a child and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15.
At the age of 16, she taught English at Tsuruga College in Japan. She was awarded a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University, where she majored in Japanese and Business but from which she did not graduate, and is a member of Mensa, with an IQ of 156.