Gina-Raye Carter is an American actress, singer, songwriter and dancer born and raised in High Point, North Carolina. She started out in the adult film industry by making a homemade sex tape at eighteen. She moved to Los Angeles, California in 1997 to pursue a career in music and acting. Her first break in the industry came in 2001 when she was given spoken lines while working as an extra on a episode of NYPD Blue directed Robert J. Doherty. Soon after, she was cast as Lynda Bird Johnson in HBO's political film, Path to War. She returned to the adult film industry in 2003. In 2004, she completed a Songwriting Certificate from UCLA Extension, and started releasing her own singles.