Carrie Ann Inaba is a successful American dancer, choreographer, television dance competition judge, actress, game show host, and singer. Carrie Ann Inaba well known for her work on ABC TV’s Dancing with the Stars.
Early life and Childhood
Carrie Ann Inaba is 53 years old as of 2021. She was born on 5th January 1968 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. Whereas, she was born to Patty Inaba(mother) and Rodney Y.Inaba(father). She was the younger of two children. But the information regarding her siblings are not revealed. Similarly, Carrie Ann interested in dancing with many other dance forms. Therefore, she also played piano and violin and sang in the choir. Likewise, she belongs to an American nationality and belongs to Japanese, Chinese and Irish mixed ethnicity.
Caption: The old picture of Carrie’s family, Source: Instagram
Education
Talking about Carrie Ann’s educational history, she joined Hanahaouli School and then Punahou School. She attended Sophia University and California University, Irvine before moving on with a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Degree in world expressions and societies.
Career Life
One of her first work was as a dancer for the television series, In Living Color (1990), which had won the Emmy Award. Her next big gig was performing with Madonna, which was included on The Girlie Show tour as the Pole Girl. Carrie Ann had to shave her head for this show, and train with circus trainers and a stripper as well. At the time Carrie Ann started her acting career, her primary interest was in real-life bits. She studied judo with the taebo creator Billy Blanks and continues her training in the combative technique. She hones hatha yoga, in addition.
Carrie Ann is consistently searching for ways to integrate her childhood background into her career.
She also went on to dance with Ricky Martin, David Copperfield, Chayanne and made numerous appearances on shows including The Creative Arts Emmys, The SAG Awards, The NAACP Awards, The MTV Awards, The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986), and more. She still loves dancing, to this day. It is the movement and the music in her heart that will always inspire her as an artist. In reality, she likes to integrate dance and movement even as an actress.
Opened video production company
Aside from her success, Carrie Ann also has several off-camera recognitions. She founded her own computerized video production company, EnterMediArts, Inc., other than her choreography, which provided two of her documentaries to her short film. She is the company’s president and CEO, and managed and edited several of her own projects. Carrie Ann loves the film industry and loves DV’s (Digital Video) accessibility.
Whereas, she is confident that EnterMediArts, Inc. will soon create greater reality/instruction TV content, prepare DVDs off-camera and even put down end-of-film projects. Carrie Ann tends to break borders and combine elements like the name of her company infers, making half-breeds much as she, herself, is a blend of cultures. Her development company, EnterMediArts, Inc., has its name changed into one from Music, Media, and The Arts-all.
In addition, she appeared in and was on the front of European magazines and Japanese magazines. She was the global spokesmodel for an AT&T Asiana campaign and during her career has appeared in several commercials. She was also nominated for two times Emmy Awards.
Caption: Carrie Ann judging a shown “dancing with the stars” with co-judge, Source: Instagram
Singing
In 1986, an 18-year-old Carrie won a talent show in Hawaii. She was then prepared to be a pop star in Japan and presented songs to read phonetically in Japanese from a lyric sheet. Even though her first single made the Top 50, she did not find recognition in her singing career. She lived in Tokyo from 1986 to 1988 and was a popular singer. Similarly, she released the other three singles, “Party Girl” (backed with “China Blue”), “Be Your Girl” (backed with “6½ Capezio”), and “Yume no Senaka” (backed with “Searching”). Even she hosted weekly radio and television series.
Choreography
Her choreography has appeared in numerous television series, including American Idol, In Search of the Partridge Family (in which she also appeared on-air), Married by America, American Juniors, All American Girl, He’s a Lady, The Sexiest Bachelor in America Pageant, The Swan, and Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?. She even choreographed the Miss America Pageant for five years. She has made her appearance in the first season of So You Think You Can Dance during the audition stages where she contributed choreography for the “choreography round”.Carrie even served as an honorary judge at the 2009 USA Dance National DanceSport Championships.
Theater
Carrie was a producer for the Broadway show Burn the Floor at New York’s Longacre Theatre.
In 2008, she got awarded the Visionary Award by East West Players, the oldest Asian Pacific American theatre company in the United States, for promoting to support “the visibility of the Asian American community through theater, film, and television.”
Personal Life
Regarding Carrie Ann’s personal life, she is dating a guy named @offroad_husky at present. Whereas, she dated Artem Chigvintsev who was a Russian dancer. She dated him for two years from the year 2006 to 2008. After the separation with Artem Chigvintsev, she met Jesse Sloan at dating site eHarmony. Although after a long relationship Carrie Ann got engaged with Jesse Sloan. However, she ended her engagement due to some reasons with him in September 2012. Additionally, she was also in a relationship with Robb Derringer in the year 2016. But sadly the relationship ended after one year.
Caption: Carrie Ann with her ex Robb Derringer, Source: realitytvworld
Health Issue
In a 2011 interview with Prevention, she stated she was legally blind, having a vision of 20/750 which is improved with eyeglasses and contact lenses. She also spoke about her spinal stenosis, which she thinks started with a neck injury during gymnastics when she was eight years old.
Further, she has Sjögren syndrome, a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease that destroys moisture-producing glands. She has expressed her commitment to increasing awareness of SS and promoting funding for research, treatment, and a cure as the Sjögren Syndrome Foundation’s National Awareness Ambassador & Spokesperson.
On September 17, 2019, she revealed that she was recently diagnosed with Lupus.
Net Worth
Carrie Ann has estimated a huge amount of income through her professional life as a dancer, actress, and many more. Whereas, she has estimated around $8 million of net worth. Currently, her salary is not disclosed yet.
Body Measurement and Social Media
Carrie Ann is a beautiful woman. She is a very talented actress as well as a dancer. Whereas talking about her height, she is 5feet 6inches tall and her body weight is 55kg. Her body Measurement is 35-28-37 and her feet size is 6(US). Similarly, her bra size is 32B. Likewise, her hair is black and dark brown eyes.
Carrie Annis is active on social media. She has a huge fan following on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Whereas, she has more than 274k followers on Facebook and over 369k follower on Instagram with 3,164 posts. Similarly, she joined Twitter in July 2009 with 310k followers on it.
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