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Tara Reid
Reid at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards
Born	Tara D. Reid November 8, 1975 (1975-11-08) (age 34) Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1982–present

Tara D. Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Big Lebowski (1998), Urban Legend (1998), American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), My Boss's Daughter (2003), and Alone in the Dark (2005).

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Reid was born and raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the daughter of Donna and Tom Reid, both of whom were teachers and day-care center owners.¹ She attended St. Elizabeth's Catholic Elementary, Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School, Ramapo High School, John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills and graduated from Barnstable Academy, an alternative high school. She also attended Professional Children's School, in Manhattan, along with fellow actors Christina Ricci, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Macaulay Culkin.² Reid has twin younger siblings Colleen and Patrick and another brother, Tom.³

Career

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Reid began acting at age nine, being a regular on the game show Child's Play, and appeared in over 100 commercials including Jell-O, McDonalds, Crayola and Milton Bradley. As a teenager, she was on Saved By The Bell: The New Class and on All My Children. After moving to Hollywood in 1997, Reid transitioned to movies, landing her break out role in 1998's The Big Lebowski, a cult favorite, and her first #1 box office role. She finished the year by appearing in two more box office toppers, Cruel Intentions and Urban Legend. In 1999, Reid portrayed the role of virginal Vickie in the wildly successful film, American Pie, which grossed over $102,000,000 in United States box office receipts and becoming her fourth #1 in a row. Between 2000 and 2002, Reid starred in a string of unsuccessful movies, such as Josie and the Pussycats and Dr. T and the Women. In 2001 and 2002, she reclaimed her box office success with American Pie 2 and National Lampoon's Van Wilder, alongside Ryan Reynolds. She returned to the small screen as a re-occurring character on the NBC sitcom, Scrubs, appearing in 11 episodes of Season 3. From 2003 through 2005, Reid appeared in two movies (My Boss's Daughter and Alone in the Dark), both panned by critics. In January 2007, Reid filmed a commercial with Daniel Conn for Dodo, an Australian budget telephone and Internet provider. In 2005, Reid signed on to host the E! Channel's Wild On Tara Reid (later renamed Taradise), a program that showcased high society vacations and hot spots. The show aired in October 2005 and was cancelled in February 2006, due to poor ratings, with only 8 of the 14 episodes aired. Reid's new film called The Fields is scheduled to be released in 2011.

Reid also has designed a clothing line with Ed Hardy designer, Christian Audigier, entitled Mantra, which will hit high end department stores in 2009.

Topless photos of Reid appeared in a pictorial in the January/February 2010 issue of Playboy, although earlier reports had indicated she had posed nude for the magazine.⁴

Personal life

Reid was romantically linked to Carson Daly starting in early 2000.^{citation needed} Daly made a cameo appearance in, Josie and the Pussycats (also starring Reid), in which he jokes while attempting to kill Reid's character that the two could have had a romantic relationship given different circumstances. In June 2001, Reid and Daly broke off their engagement.⁵ She previously had dated Russian hockey star Sergei Fedorov.⁶ In the late 1990s, she dated actor Steve Burton and still is close to him and his family.⁷ She briefly dated American football players Tom Brady, Jerome Bettis, Jeremy Shockey,⁸ Kyle Boller, Kevin Mawae, tennis player Mark Philippoussis, and family friend Eric Weber.⁹

On the night of November 4, 2004, photographs surfaced of Reid from the red carpet at Puff Daddy's 35th birthday party at Cipriani's Restaurant in New York City, when her dress fell, exposing her left breast.

In October 2006, Reid acknowledged in an interview with Us Weekly that she had liposculpting.¹⁰ In the interview she 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 wanted a "six pack" for a new movie role. The liposuction resulted in deformity. In the same interview, Reid's new plastic surgeon, Dr. Steven Svehlak, reported that he performed a procedure called a "doughnut mastopexy" to correct her original augmentation, and performed additional liposuction in hopes to even out her stomach.

On January 18, 2010 Tara's boyfriend Michael Axtmann (an internet entrepreneur), proposed to her at The Little Door restaurant in Los Angeles. The couple is reportedly planning an intimate ceremony for summer 2010.¹¹

Filmography

Television
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1994	Saved by the Bell: The New Class	Sandy	Appeared In 1 Episode
1995	Days of our Lives	Ashley	Appeared In 5 Episodes
1996	California Dreams	Sarah	Appeared In 1 Episode
1998	Touched by an Angel	Unknown	Appeared In 1 Episode
2003-2005	Scrubs	Danni Sullivan	Appeared In 11 Episodes
2005-2006	Taradise	Herself	Series Regular
Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	A Return to Salem's Lot	Amanda
1998	The Big Lebowski	Bunny Lebowski	Worldwide Box Office Gross: $46,498,804
1998	Girl	Cybil
1998	I Woke Up the Day I Died	Prom Queen / Nightclub Bartender
1998	Urban Legend	Sasha Thomas	Worldwide Box Office Gross: $72,527,595
1999	Cruel Intentions	Marci Greenbaum	Worldwide Box Office Gross: $75,902,208
1999	Around The Fire	Jennifer
1999	American Pie	Victoria 'Vicky' Lathum	Worldwide Box Office Gross: $235,483,00
1999	Body Shots	Sara Olswang
2000	Dr. T & the Women	Connie
2001	Just Visiting	Angelique
2001	Josie and the Pussycats	Melody Valentine	Worldwide Box Office Gross: $14,866,01
2001	American Pie 2	Victoria 'Vicky' Lathum	Worldwide Box Office Gross: $287,553,595
2002	National Lampoon's Van Wilder	Gwen Pearson	Worldwide Box Office Gross: $38,275,483
2003	Devil's Pond	Julianne	Straight-to-DVD
2003	My Boss's Daughter	Lisa Taylor	Nomination - 24th Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Supporting Actress / Worst Screen Couple (Shared With Ashton Kutcher)
2004	Knots (2004) as Emily	Emily	Made-For-Television
2005	Alone in the Dark'	Aline Cedrac	Nominated - 26th Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Actress
2005	The Crow: Wicked Prayer	Lola Bryne
2005	Silent Partner	Dina	Straight-to-DVD
2006	Incubus	Jay	Straight-to-DVD
2007	If I Had Known I Was a Genius	Stephanie	Straight-to-DVD
2007	7-10 Split/Strike	Lindsay / Lil Reno	Straight-to-DVD
2008	Senior Skip Day	Ellen Harris	Straight-to-DVD
2008	Clean Break/Unnatural Causes	Julia McKay	Straight-to-DVD
2008	Vipers	Nicky Swift	Straight-to-DVD
2010	Land of Canaan	Amy	Post-Production
2010	Last Call	Lindsay	Post-Production
2011	The Fields	Bonnie	Post-Production

References

External links

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• Tara Reid at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
NAME	Reid, Tara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	U.S. actress
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wyckoff, New Jersey, United States
DATE OF DEATH	2009
PLACE OF DEATH