Rayveness, born Gina-Raye Carter (also known as Karen M. Swaim) on June 19, 1972, is an American former adult film actress of German, Irish, British, and Finnish descent, raised in the Quaker faith in High Point, North Carolina. Married a year before graduating from Ragsdale High School, she worked in fast food, babysitting, and as an Avon saleswoman before entering the adult industry at 18 in 1990, debuting with a homemade tape for Homegrown Video, inspired by seeing a couple become weathly from doing the same on The Sally Jessy Raphael Show, per Wikipedia and IMDb. Using aliases like Raveness and Ginger, she appeared in over 470 films, including Women Seeking Women 44 (2008) and Couples Camp (2010), initially performing only with her then-husband Red Bone (divorced 1997) and female stars, later transitioning to broader roles after their split, per WorldSex.com. Known for her 36DD-24-36 figure, pale skin, and MILF/cougar roles post-2003, Rayveness pursued a brief mainstream acting career during a hiatus from adult films between 2000 and 2003, aiming to distance herself from her porn persona. To avoid recognition, she dyed her naturally dark brown hair red and used her birth name, Gina-Raye Carter, or the alias Karen M. Swaim. She landed minor roles in mainstream television and film, most notably appearing in the HBO movie Path to War (2002) as Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and in an episode of the ABC series NYPD Blue (2001), per IMDb and Wikipedia. These roles showcased her ability to perform in dramatic, non-adult contexts, leveraging her acting skills honed in adult films.