Taija Rae (born in 1962) was an American adult film actress who became popular in the late 1980s for her natural appeal and voluptuous figure. She is sometimes credited as Tanja Rae or Taja Rea .

Taija came out of Philadelphia, PA and worked a stint at an in call house before entering the adult film industry in 1983, after being discovered by a fledgling Philadelphia talent firm, Lynx Management. After a test photo shoot in New York City, Taija quickly made the rounds of the New York adult industry and kept busy in film & print, working with directors such as Henri Pachard, Chuck Vincent and Dave Darby. Taija wrote columns for and appeared in east coast magazines including Cinema Blue while maintaining her home in Pennsylvania, until moving to Los Angeles in 1988. She left the adult film business in 1990. After a return stint in prostitution, Rae was last seen working as a hostess at a Las Vegas restaurant.
Trivia
Taija Rae has one of the ten most mispronounced names of all time in porn, according to Jim Holliday and Bill Caits. Pronounce the first name TAY-zhuh.

Cecil Howard directed Taija Rae in Star Angel. While he shot reverse angles of her, two shots, single shots, close ups, she turned to Howard's cameraman and said, 'What's wrong with him? Does he think he's making a real movie?' The crew laughed. (Wizard of X, p. 106)