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| Tara Reid | |
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 Reid at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards |
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| Born | November 8, 1975 Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| Years active | 1980 ─ Present |
Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975) is a U.S. actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Big Lebowski (1998), American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), My Boss's Daughter (2003), and Alone in the Dark (2005).
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Biography
Early life
Reid was born and raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the daughter of Donna and Tom Reid, both of whom are teachers and day-care center owners. She attended Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School and subsequently Ramapo High School and graduated from alternative high school Barnstable Academy. Both high schools were in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; Barnstable is now in Oakland. Reid has twin younger siblings Colleen and Patrick and a brother Tom.1
Career
Reid began her career at the age of six years in 1982 on the 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 suburbs, and attended the Professional Children's School along with such celebrities as Christina Ricci, Ben Taylor, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Macaulay Culkin.2 Although her break-through role was in American Pie in 1999, followers of the 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski already knew her as Bunnie 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 spoofed that image with her role on the N.B.C. comedy-drama Scrubs as Danni Sullivan, main character J.D.'s promiscuous sweet-heart.
During summer 2005, she was busy shooting Incubus in Romania at an assortment of clubs with Bucharest's local socialites. Taradise, her half-hour television show on the E! network, premiered in September 2005; it was canceled the following month. The show was an up-dated incarnation of E!'s well-known series Wild On, in which a celebrity host traveled to exotic places to party. In January 2007, Reid filmed a commercial with Daniel Conn for Dodo, an Australian budget telephone and Internet provider. Reid appeared in the September 2007 issue of FHM magazine.
Filmography
- A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Girl (1998)
- Touched by an Angel (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 Partner (2005)
- Incubus (2006)
- If I Had Known I Was a Genius (2007)
- 7-10 Split (2007)
- Senior Skip Day (2008)
- Clean Break/Unnatural Causes (2008)
- Vipers (2008)
- Land of Canaan (2009)
- The Beautiful Outsiders (2009)
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| NAME | Reid, Tara |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | U.S. actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wyckoff, New Jersey, United States |
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