Tara Reid

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Tara Reid
Tara Reid
Born	November 8, 1975 (age 31) Wyckoff, New Jersey
Notable roles	The Big Lebowski (1998) American Pie (1999)

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).

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 Footnotes 4 External link

[edit] Biography

[edit] 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.^[1] Reid grew up in New Jersey.

[edit] 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.^[2] 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.

[edit] 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.^[3] 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.^[4] She briefly dated New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, Baltimore Ravens quarterback Kyle Boller, New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey,^[5] and tennis player Mark Philippoussis.^[6]

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.^[7] In October 2006, she admitted in an interview with Us Weekly that she also had liposuction.^[8] 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.While touring Australia, she has been spotted on the Gold Coast with Sydney comedian Chris Taylor and has been modeling clothes for the reject shop.

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, leading to wide-spread criticism of her intelligence and level of inebriation.^[9]

[edit] Filmography

• A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Girl (1998)
• I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
• Urban Legend (1998)
• Cruel Intentions (1999)
• Around the Fire (1999)
• American Pie (1999)
• Body Shots (1999)
• Dr. T & the Women (2000)
• Just Visiting (2001)
• Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
• American Pie 2 (2001)
• National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
• Devil's Pond (2003)
• My Boss's Daughter (2003)
• Knots (2004)
• Alone in the Dark (2005)
• The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
• Silent Prayer (2005)
• If I Had Known I Was a Genius (2006)
• Incubus (2006)
• Dodo (ISP) Television Commercial (In Australia) (2007}

Upcoming:

• Un-natural Causes (2007)
• Senior Skip Day (2007)
• Land of Canaan (2007)

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External link

• Tara Reid at the Internet Movie Database

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NAME	Reid, Tara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American actress
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wyckoff, New Jersey, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH