Tera Heart was born Lynn Bates on September 13, 1968 in Illinois. The voluptuous knockout first began performing in explicit hardcore movies in her early 20's in 1990. Heart took a brief hiatus from porn in the early 1990's, but returned with a vengeance in 1994 and eventually retired at the end of that particular decade. Tera has been married twice and was last reported living in Tampa, Florida.