Mika Tan | |
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Tan at the 2005 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo
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Born |
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
November 27, 1977
Nationality | American |
Other names | Mikatan, Mika, Mika Okinawa, Leiloni |
Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
Weight | 121 lb (55 kg; 8.6 st) |
Spouse(s) | Alec Knight (divorced) |
Website | http://www.mikatan.com |
No. of adult films | 487 (per IAFD, as of October 2016) |
Mika Tan (born November 27, 1977) is the stage name of an American fetish model (BDSM/DS/ and pantyhose fetish), and pornographic actress.
Tan was born in Hawaii to a Japanese–Samoan father and an Okinawan–Taiwanese mother. She was raised by her grandmother, who was an established folk dancer and singer and was also the owner of several massage parlors. While her mother's family was musical, her father's was mainly military, including her sister - who serves in the United States Marine Corps and has helped Tan with her official website. As a "Navy brat", Tan traveled around the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa all before she started high school. She had a childhood background in the performing arts and has worked in the commercial fisheries industry in the past.
Tan began as a child model, doing catalog work beginning at age 12, and she has also appeared as an extra in movies & television and in commercials and live musical theater.
Tan earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from San Diego State University and an associate's degree in psychology. It took her five years to graduate, and she did nude art modeling and was a stripper to support her last year as a student. Tan has studied classical voice and also graduated from the John Robert Powers Modeling/Finishing School. She has also appeared on Playboy TV and in a music video for Too $hort called "Get in Where you Fit In".