When Linda was 14 years old, she moved to Tokyo and worked there as a model for a Japanese modeling agency. Prior to that, she took some classes at the Barbizon School of Modeling. She spent in Japan about two years, where she had some problems with drugs and alcohol. She comes back to the United States and later decided to study. She attended the Boise State University, where she obtained a GED, briefly studied nursing. Afterwards, she got an EMT certification from a vocational school in Idaho.

Laura began her adult career in the 1999. In the 2003 she signed a contract with a pornographic film production company Vivid Entertainment Group. In the same year she also became the masthead publisher of famous magazine Genesis.

In the 2006 she was involved in the project, which was titled "Tera Patrick's Fashion Underground" where she played along with Jean Val Jean and Tommy Gunn. During her adult video career, she appeared in more than 130 movies. She filed a lawsuit against big company Playboy Enterprises for failing to pay royalties on money earned by her Web site clubtera.com.

She also was a model for such popular magazines like Playboy and Penthouse. Tera announced her retirement from the adult video industry in the 2008. Afterwards, she became a host for the Playboy television erotic show “School of Sex”. Since then she also was an awards event host for a several times. Tera made her appearances in several TV series like “Secret Lives of Women”, “Live Nude Girls”, “Girls of Sunset Place”. She also played in the horror movie “Angel of Darkness: The Legend of Lilith”.

In addition to her porn career she also is a business woman, who is an owner of her production company, TeraVision INC. She also wrote her own memoir, which was titled “Sinner Takes All”, and written along with a journalist and author Carrie Borzillo. It was published in the 2010. She launched her own clothing lines include Mistress Couture as well as her T-shirt line with the TITS Brand.

She is married to Evan Seinfeld, who is a musician and porn actor. The ceremony was in Las Vegas in the early 2004. The couple got to divorce in the 2009. She also is a mother of a baby girl named Sophia Evelia Acosta, who was born in the 2012. The child’s father is Tony Acosta, who is known as a special effects artist from Hollywood. He becomes Tera’s second husband in the 2010. The information about Tera can be found on several social media sites, like Twitter or Instagram. Her net worth is $15 million.