Gina-Raye Carter (born 1972), known professionally as Rayveness, is an American pornographic and mainstream film actress. She is an inductee of both the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame. RayVeness worked at various fast food restaurants as well as a babysitter and an Avon saleswoman prior to starting out in the adult film industry at age 18 in 1990 (in fact, she did her first sex scene on her 18th birthday for the company Homegrown Video). Her porn pseudonym is of Indian origin and means "of the spirit".