Tera Patrick was born in Montana on July 25, 1976, the daughter of a Thai mother and English father. The family soon moved to San Francisco, where Tera Patrick did the bulk of her growing up. Tera Patrick's mother moved back to Thailand shortly after, leaving Tera Patrick with her father. At the age of thirteen, she was spotted by a talent scout while wandering around Fisherman's Wharf wearing an Ozzy Ozbourne t-shirt. Tera Patrick soon signed with the Ford Agency and spent the next five years working as a mainstream model.

Tera Patrick grew into a stunningly beautiful young woman, but still found that work was hard to come by for someone with her exotic features and mixed

After appearing in numerous foot fetish and bondage tapes under the name Tera Patrick, Tera Patrick's first actual hardcore feature was Andrew Blake's gauzy "Aroused." Tera Patrick's breathtaking good looks soon had her climbing the ladder of lascivious success as one blistering role led to another and another. Her first boy/girl scene was in "Fire & Ice," and from that point on there was truly no stopping her. Tera Patrick's naturally curvaceous figure was just what audiences and producers were looking for as the industry started moving away from silicone-inflated strumpets.

Among Tera Patrick's best scenes so far are her appearance in "Nice Rack 4," where she takes on Eric Everhard and Vince Voyeur in a high-pitched session. She steamed her way through an explosive tryst in "Real Sex Magazine 23," and hooked up with T.T. Boy in a rough-edged scene from "18 & Nasty 11." Tera Patrick's go-getter attitude landed her the Hot d'Or award during the Cannes Erotic Film Festival as the Best New American Starlet.