Tera Patrick

Tera Patrick was born on July 25, 1976 in Great Falls, Montana to an English Jewish father and Thai mother; her parents had originally met in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. While Tera Patrick was young, her mother moved back to Thailand, and her father moved with her to San Francisco, California and raised her there himself. Tera Patrick was discovered in San Francisco by a talent scout for the Eileen Ford Modeling Agency, and at the age of 13 she was signed to a contract to be a model. In the late-1990s, Tera Patrick transitioned to appearing in nude and softcore features. In 2000, she made jump to hardcore porn in Andrew Blake's movie Aroused. A few years later Tera Patrick would form her own company and fight to take over the title of the Queen of Porn from the newly retired Jenna Jameosn.