Tera Patrick again
August 12, 2008 Tera Patrick, Adult stars No Comments
So what’s the deal with this gal? Quentin Tarantino wants her for a Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! remake, Angela Jolie wants some tips from her for a possible new Catwoman movie (?!?!)… what’s up, really? Why a porn actress is being so courted by the mainstream? Is the fact that she’s amazingly beautiful enough? Once again, the pictures tell the story… but let’s look underneath.
Amazingly, we share the same birthday (July 25), as she came into this world as Linda Ann Hopkins, in 1976, from Great Falls, Montana. Her mom is Thai and her dad Jewish American, which resulted in a most successful mix. She was raised in San Francisco, where she was discovered at the sweet age of 13 by a talent scout for the Eileen Ford Modeling Agency, nothing less. She worked as a fulltime teenage model but returned to studies when she reached her eighteenth birthday. Of all things, she got a degree in microbiology.
But you can’t keep a young girl down, so Tera began nude modeling for men’s magazines, which led to soft and hard cores features, with a little side step for bondage and foot fetish projects. She became a Penthouse Pet and was also featured in Playboy. With more interesting financial opportunities on the horizon, Tera took the plunge into the XXX world and became one of its reigning queens.
If you want to follow her career since its first steps, remember that she performed under some aliases, including Tara Patrick, Sadie Jordan, Brooke Thomas, Tera Hopkins or Linda Shapiro!
Andrew Blake’s Aroused is considered her real debut into the harder stuff. Experts were quick to notice her enthusiasm during sex scenes and of course any display of that astonishing 5’9’ body getting all sweaty was enough reason for a rapid claim to fame. She won the 2000 Hot D’Or Best New Starlet, that being an adult film industry award from Europe. Of course, her home country didn’t forget her, as she was awarded many AVN trophies and the like also.
She married actor/musician Evan Seinfeld in 2004 and was thusly ready to forsake her adult movie career, to the chagrin of millions. But she was successful in breaking her contract with Digital Playground to form her own entertainment company, Teravision Inc. Oddly, she now performs sex scenes only with her husband, but doesn’t mind getting nasty with other females actresses. She also opened her own agency, aptly called The Tera Patrick Agency. Her webcast is still popular.
Tera Patrick has now turned 32, an age that can be considered too old for this industry. But she still remains a breath of fresh air for her looks in adult productions and is more and more talked about in the mainstream press. Hollywood personalities seem to adore her. Is a regular part in a big-budget feature so unlikely (or even low-budget, doesn’t matter)? I hope not.
