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Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an
American actress. She is known for her roles in the
films American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001),
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), The Big Lebowski
(1998), and My Boss's Daughter (2003).
Early life: Reid was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey
to Donna and Tom Reid, both of whom are teachers and day
care centre owners. She has a younger sister, Colleen,
and two brothers, Tom (who is a twin of Colleen) and
Patrick. Reid grew up in New Jersey.
Career: Reid began her career at the age of six
in 1982 on the short-lived game show, Child's Play. As a
child, she had roles in a number of commercials for
McDonald's, Crayola, and Jell-O. She grew up in New York
City, and attended the Professional Children's School
alongside such celebrities as Christina Ricci, Ben
Taylor, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and
Macaulay Culkin. Although her breakthrough role was in
American Pie in 1999, followers of the 1998 cult film
The Big Lebowski already knew her as Bunny Lebowski.
Reid spent the late 1990s appearing more often on the
cover of tabloid magazines than on screen. Her
extroverted social life soon gave her a reputation as a
party girl; in fact, U.S. magazine In Touch Weekly,
recently voted Reid "top party animal". She
has appeared as J.D.'s (Zach Braff) girlfriend in the
NBC comedy Scrubs.
Taradise, her half-hour television show on the E!
network, premiered in September 2005; it was cancelled
the following month. The show was an updated incarnation
of E!'s popular series Wild On, where a celebrity host
or model traveled to exotic locations to party with
locals. Previously during Summer 2005, she was busy
shooting Incubus in Romania at an assortment of clubs
with Bucharest's local socialites. In January 2007, Reid
filmed a commercial with Daniel Conn for Dodo, an
Australian phone and internet provider.
As one of the stars of the 1999 summer smash American
Pie, Tara Reid experienced an almost meteoric ascent
into overnight celebrity. Possessing the kind of buxom
blond good looks that ensure future employment and
Internet shrines, Reid was best-known for her role as
The Big Lebowski's trophy wife, Bunny Lebowski, before
being cast in Pie.
A native of Wyckoff, New Jersey, where she was born on
November 8, 1975, Reid broke into acting at the age of
six, when she was a contestant on the CBS children's
game show, Child's Play. She went on to study at New
York's Professional Children's School, where her
classmates included Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jerry
O'Connell, and Macaulay Culkin. After appearing in
commercials for such products as Jell-O and Crayola,
Reid landed a role on the sitcom Saved by the Bell: the
New Class in 1994 and then had a recurring role on the
daytime drama Days of Our Lives the following year.
She got her first substantial film roles in 1998,
appearing in the Ed Wood-scripted I Woke Up Early the
Day I Died, The Big Lebowski, the independent film
Around the Fire, and Urban Legend, the latest in a long
line of teen slasher flicks. Reid won some amount of
recognition for the last film, which featured a
Who's-Who line-up of post-pubescent stars and cast her
as a campus radio talk show host.
The following year, Reid earned a form
of screen immortality with her role as the girlfriend of
one of four high school guys who make a pact to lose
their virginity in American Pie. She also appeared in
more low-profile roles in the independent film Girl and
in Cruel Intentions, which featured her as one of Ryan
Phillippe's more unfortunate conquests. Later that year,
she had a starring role in Body Shots, playing one of a
group of twenty-something friends on the prowl for love
and/or sex in Los Angeles.
Edging ever closer to leading woman status, Reid's star
continued to rise as the vibrant young actress took on
roles in such high profile efforts as Dr. T and the
Women (2000), Josie and the Pussycats (2001) and, of
course, American Pie 2) (also 2001). After taming the
savage party animal in the lowbrow {\comedy Van Wilder,
Reid gave screen heartthrob Ashton Kutcher the runaround
in the romantic comedy My Boss's Daughter.
Personal life: Carson Daly made a cameo
appearance in Josie and the Pussycats, in which Reid
played the Pussycat Melody. The two began a romantic
relationship shortly thereafter. In June 2001, Reid and
Daly broke off their engagement.
She previously had dated Russian hockey
star, Sergei Fedorov. In the late 1990s she dated actor
Steve Burton and still is close to him and his family.
She briefly dated New England Patriots quarterback Tom
Brady, New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey,[5] and
tennis player Mark Philippoussis.
On the night of November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed
by a wardrobe malfunction at a highly-publicized photo
shoot at Puff Daddy's 35th birthday party at Cipriani's
Restaurant in New York City, when her dress fell,
exposing her left breast. Photos of Reid having larger,
perkier breasts than before had been circulating the
Internet for several months before the incident,
igniting rumors of Reid having undergone a breast
augmentation. Scar tissue was visible around Reid's
nipple, confirming rumors of breast implants. The
photographs were widely distributed. In August 2005, she
publicly admitted getting breast augmentation surgery.
In October 2006, she admitted in an
interview with Us Weekly that she also had liposuction.
In the interview she also discusses how her plastic
surgery "went wrong," and also explains why
she decided to have plastic surgery done, saying that
her breasts were uneven and that she had saggy skin. In
the same Us Weekly interview, Reid's new plastic
surgeon, Dr. Steven Svehlak, reported that he performed
a procedure called a doughnut mastopexy to correct her
original breast augmentation.
On New Year's Eve 2006, at a large celebration in
Chicago, Tara made several numerical errors in hosting
the minute-long countdown for the year. A video of the
incident circled the Internet. |
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