Tia Carrere

Tia Carrere is one of those performers who made the early '90s feel electric — she walked into Wayne's World as Cassandra Wong and immediately became the coolest person in any room she entered, shredding guitar in a fictional band and making every teenage guy in the audience completely lose it. Born and raised in Honolulu with Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese heritage, she brought a presence that Hollywood genuinely didn't know what to do with, which is a shame because she had serious range — sultry villainess in True Lies, action heroine in Relic Hunter for five seasons, and the warm, aching voice of Nani in Lilo & Stitch. And then there's the Grammy: she actually won Best Hawaiian Music Album in 2010, which reminds you she was never just a "pretty face in an action movie" — she's a real artist who stayed connected to her Hawaiian roots. Criminally underrated across the board.

Name (English)

Tia Carrere

Name (Japanese)

ティア・カレル

Reading

てぃあ・かれる

Born

January 2, 1967 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

Origin

Honolulu, United States

Occupation

actor / singer / voice actor / television actor / model

Awards & achievements

• 2010 Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album

• Official sitehttps://www.tiacarrere.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tiacarrere/
• Xhttps://x.com/TiaCarrere
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tia%20Carrere
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q286570

Tags

• actor
• singer
• voice actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.