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Tera Patrick (born July 25, 1976 in Great Falls, Montana) is an American porn actress who works for Vivid. Her birth name is Linda Ann Hopkins Shapiro. Her father is from Great Britain and her mother from Thailand.

Tera started her career, when she was discovered in San Francisco at the age of 13. She signed a modeling contract at the Eileen Ford Modeling Agency. At the age of 18 she did a vocational education to become a micro biologist and nurse. In the late 90s she re-entered the model business and started to do nude photography as well as soft erotic movies. Finally she entered the porn industry with the movie Aroused directed by Andrew Blake. Tera worked with Digital Sin, Digital Playground and Vivid. Since then she is one of the world's renowned porn actresses. She was on the cover of Playboy, Penthouse, Coupé and other magazines.

2003 Tera did her first shooting with her later husband Evan Seinfeld (Spyder Jonez) for the movie "Tera, Tera, Tera". 2004 she married Evan Seinfeld, lead singer of Biohazard. more