Tera Patrick Biography

Tera Patrick (born Linda Ann Hopkins Shapiro on July 25, 1976 in Great Falls, Montana, USA) is an American pornographic actress. She has appeared under various names, including Tera Patrick, Brooke Thomas, Sadie Jordan, Linda Shapiro, Tera Hopkins, and Tara Patrick. Tera's name is derived from the given name (Tara Patrick) of actress Carmen Electra.

Early life

Patrick was born in Great Falls, Montana to an English Jewish father and Thai mother. While Tera was quite young, her mother moved back to Thailand to live permanently, and her father moved with her to San Francisco, California and raised her there himself.

Patrick was discovered in San Francisco by a talent scout for the Ford Modeling Agency, and at the age of 13 she was signed to a contract to be a model. She moved to New York City shortly thereafter and her career as a runway and catalog model began.

At 18, she left the world of modeling and enrolled at Boise State University where she received her associate's (two year) degree in nursing and a BS in Microbiology. She then transferred to University of California, Santa Barbara, where for financial reasons she began modeling again.

Career

Although she found employment as a nurse, her curiosity about nude modeling (something she had always wondered about) got the best of her, and she was soon appearing in men's magazines. In the late 1990s, Patrick transitioned to appearing in nude and soft-core features. In 2000, she made the transition to hard-core porn. Since that time, she has become one of the most popular and recognized porn stars in the world, having graced the pages of Playboy and Penthouse, where she was a "Pet of the Month" for February 2000 and was selected as "Pet of the Year" runner-up, as well as having appeared in more than seventy adult features.

Tera has been a frequent and favorite guest of Howard Stern on his TV and radio programs. She was featured on the cover of the July 2006 edition of the more mainstream FHM, revealing candid details in an interview inside. Patrick, who had been named #57 of FHM's 100 sexiest women, was the first porn star to grace the cover.

In 2003, Tera became the masthead publisher of Genesis magazine, a popular men's magazine which subtitles itself, "The Home of Porn's Hottest Stars." Since she has signed the contract with Genesis, Patrick has graced the cover of seven issues of the publication.

On January 9, 2004, Patrick married Evan Seinfeld, a singer/bassist for the hardcore heavy metal band Biohazard and an actor best known for his appearance in the series Oz. They married privately in a small ceremony. Even though Patrick is a porn star, the two were in a monogamous relationship for the past 3 years. Just recently, November, 2006, Patrick starred in a Vivid/Teravision production titled "Tera Patrick's Fashion Underground" where she performed with Jean Val Jean and Tommy Gunn. In the same film her husband, Spyder Jonez, performed with Lanny Barby. This would be the first time in 3 years that the two have performed on screen with other stars. The two have made five movies for Vivid and ten for Teravision (with Seinfeld appearing under the name "Spyder Jonez").

In 2005 Tera and Evan launched a talent agency representing models and actors/actresses. According to a quote on the agency's website, Tera's goal, "is to help girls (and guys) in the business to be treated with respect, and realize their true potential..." She also owns a production company called "Teravision," which along with Vivid Video released its first feature, "Desperate," starring Tera and Evan.

Tera has not appeared in any interracial scenes. In an interview with Howard Stern she said that this is not because she does not like black men, but because it would be detrimental to her career.

Patrick appeared alongside her husband Evan Seinfeld in the 2006 reality television show SuperGroup on the U.S. channel VH1.

She also lent her voice to an animated version of herself on the late-night animated television show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Tera Patrick Filmography - Movies - TV

• Best of the Breasts (2006) (V)
• Tera Patrick on Fire (2006) (V)
• Award Winning Sex Stars 2 (2006) (V)
• Centerfold Fetish (2005) (V)
• Desperate (2005) (V)
• Best of the Best (2005) (V)
• Adult Video News Awards 2005 (2005) (V)
• Top 40 Adult Stars Collection (2005) (V)
• Soul Plane (2004) .... Uncredited cake carrier
• Reign of Tera (2004) (V)
• Island Fever 3 (2004) (V)
• Nuttin' Hunnies (2004) (V)
• Collision Course: The Big Blow (2004) (V)
• Best of North Pole (2004) (V)
• Girls Who Cum Hard (2003) (V)
• Jaw Breakers (2003) (V)
• Island Fever 2 (2003) (V)
• Foot Bottom Festival (2002) (V)
• Peds from the Past (2002) (V)
• Hogtied! (2002) (V)
• Helpless Heroines Volume 3: Girls Will Bind Girls (2002) (V) .... Hostage
• Helpless Heroines, Volume 2 (2002) (V)
• Cum Shot Starlets (2002) (V)
• Toe Talk (2001) (V)
• Break-In Bondage (2001) (V)
• Struggle Pretty Captive (2001) (V)
• Sole Indulgence (2001) (V)
• Penthouse: Pets in Paradise (2001) (V)
• Personals: College Girl Seeking... (2001) (TV) (as Tera Hopkins) .... Sara
  ... aka Personals (USA: short title)
• Real Female Masturbation 8 (2001) (V)
• Please Cum Inside Me 2 (2001) (V)
• Asian Street Hookers 7 (2001) (V)
• Forbidden Tales (2001) (V) .... Narrator/Queen/Jezebel
• Island Fever (2001) (V)
• Penthouse: Harlots of Hell (2000) (V)
• Caught tn the Act (2000) (V)
• Belle de jour (2000) (V)
• Caribbean Undercover (2000) (V) (as Tara Patrick) .... Paige/Sophia
• Fast Lane to Vegas (2000) (V) (as Tera Hopkins) .... WiB #2
• Angel Dust (2000) (V) .... Angel
• Filthy Fuckers #194: Suck My Handle (2000) (V)
• Payback: Marciano's Revenge (2000) (V)
  ... aka Payback (USA: short title)
• Behind the Scenes 3 (2000) (V)
• Open Wide and Say Ahh! 6 (2000) (V)
• Tara Patrick AKA Filthy Whore (2000) (V) (as Tara Patrick)
• Ass Angels (2000) (V)
  ... aka Ass Angels Volume 1 (USA: DVD title)
• Up and Cummers 80 (2000) (V)
• The Seduction of Maxine (2000) (TV) .... Naomi Grant
  ... aka The Stalker (USA: video title)
• Foot Lovers Only 2 (2000) (V)
• Behind the Scenes 2 (2000) (V)
• Shades of Sex (2000) (V)
• Nice Rack 4 (2000) (V) (as Tara Patrick)
• Crossroads (1999/II) (V) (as Tara Patrick) .... Suzie
• 18 and Nasty 11 (1999) (V)
• Real Sex Magazine 22 (1999) (V) (as Brooke Thomas)
• Foot Lovers Only (1999) (V)
• Real Sex Magazine 23 (1999) (V) (as Tara Patrick)
• Please 5: Fireworks! (1999) (V) (as Tara Patrick)
• Pick-Up Lines 44 (1999) (V)
• Sex Offenders #8 (1999) (V)
• North Pole #11 (1999) (V)
• Gallery of Sin (1999) (V) (as Sadie Jordan)
• Real Golden Showers Video 1 (1999) (V)
• Sex Island (1999) (V) (as Tara Patrick) .... Georgine James
• Loose Screw (1999) (V)
• Aroused (1999) (V)
• Of Time and Passion (1999) (V)
• "The Tera Patrick Show" (1999) TV Series .... Host (unknown episodes)
  ... aka Tera Show (USA: short title)
• Asian Street Hookers 6 (1999) (V)
• Tera Patrick (1999) (V)
• The Video Adventures of Peeping Tom 22 (1999) (V)
• Pick-Up Lines 46 (1999) (V)
• Farmer's Daughters Do Beverly Hills (1999) (V)

  Self Filmography - Appearances - TV

• "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" (1 episode, 2006)
  ... aka ATHF (USA: promotional abbreviation)
  - Grim Reaper Gutters (2006) TV Episode (voice)
• "Howard Stern on Demand" (3 episodes, 2006)
  ... aka Howard TV on Demand (USA)
  - Best of 04/17-04/21 (2006) TV Episode
  - Cliff Palate at AVN (2006) TV Episode (uncredited)
  - Tera Patrick and Siobhan on the Sybian (2006) TV Episode
• KSEX 1: Sexual Frequency (2005) (V)
• Fuck (2005)
  ... aka F*ck (USA: poster title)
• "Howard Stern" (6 episodes, 2002-2005)
  - Episode dated 31 January 2005 (2005) TV Episode (uncredited)
  - Episode dated 15 June 2004 (2004) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 15 November 2002 (2002) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 14 November 2002 (2002) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 23 January 2002 (2002) TV Episode
• Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood (2004) (VG) (voice)
• Thinking XXX (2004) (TV)
• Tera Tera Tera (2004) (V)
• "Porno Valley" (2004) TV Series (unknown episodes)
• Centerfold Babylon (2003) (TV)
• "Wa(h)re Liebe" (1 episode, 2003)
  - Episode dated 3 April 2003 (2003) TV Episode
• Fluffy Cumsalot, Porn Star (2003)
• "The Man Show" (1 episode, 2002)
  - A Day of Beauty (2002) TV Episode
• Adult Video News Awards 2002 (2002) (V)
• Supermodels II (2002) (V)
• Night Calls 411 Live (2002) (V) (Hostess)
• Sodom at the Days Inn (2001) (V)
• Playboy: Sizzling Sex Stars (2001) (V)
  ... aka Sizzling Sex Stars (USA)
• "Night Calls: 411" (2000) TV Series (2000-2002)
• Playboy: Lusty Latin Ladies (2000) (V)
• "The Helmetcam Show" - Guest (1 episode, 2000)
  - 00-03A (2000) TV Episode - Guest
• Behind the Scenes: Caribbean Undercover (2000) (V)
• Girls of Penthouse 4 (2000) (V)
  ... aka The Girls of Penthouse Volume 4 (UK: DVD title)
• Virtual Sex with Tera Patrick (2000) (V)