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Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an American 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). Reid was born 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, then went to Ramapo High School and graduated while attending Barnstable Academy, a performing arts-centric school. Both high schools were in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey (Barnstable is now in Oakland, N.J.). She has a younger sister, Colleen, and two brothers, Tom and Patrick (who is a twin of Colleen). Reid grew up in New Jersey. The appealing, energetic and often publicity-challenged blonde starlet Tara Reid first impressed moviegoers with her memorable performance as Bunny, the straight-talking young trophy wife of the title character, in the Coen brothers' "The Big Lebowski" (1998). Even more famous, her turn as the virgin Vicky in the celebrated young Hollywood ensemble of such stars as Chris Klein, Mena Suvari and Sean William-Scott, in the highly successful T & A gross-out comedy, "American Pie" (1999). But as quickly as her overnight fame began, so too did the partying ways that over time, began getting more press ink than her acting roles. A relative newcomer to the screen, the actress first garnered attention with a recurring role on the NBC soap "Days of Our Lives." Reid excelled in supporting roles that traded on her sexuality as in "Around the Fire" (1998), in which she played the hippie girlfriend of a privileged youth; "Girl" (also 1998), which cast her as a tough rock musician; and "Urban Legend" (also 1998), in which she portrayed Sasha, a college radio therapist. She continued in the same vein with turns in "Cruel Intentions" (1999), a modern spin on "Dangerous Liaisons" with teenage protagonists, and "American Pie" (also 1999), about high school students out to lose their virginity by graduation day. Reid began her career at the age of six 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, 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 spoofed that image with her role on the NBC sitcom Scrubs as Danni Sullivan, main character J.D.'s promiscuous girlfriend. In the wake of "Pie's" huge box office bonanza, Reid became a familiar face among up-and-coming young Hollywood. She distinguished herself even more with her high-profile relationship with her brief fiance, MTV host Carson Daly; her wild party girl behavior; and her skin-baring outfits than she did for her body of work. Reid's stellar roles at the then heady, post "American Pie" fame of the late 1990s included the alleged victim of a he-said, she-said sexual encounter in the dreadful "Body Shots" (1999); one of Richard Gere's daughters and the females besetting him in director Robert Altman's "Dr. T and the Women" (2000); and the living embodiment of the Archie Comics dumb blonde in the pop-rock misfire, "Josie & the Pussycats" (2001). Reid managed to squeeze in a return to the role of Vicky Latham for "American Pie 2" (2001), though her part had been drastically cut, as well as a turn in the campus comedy – and "Animal House" wannabe – "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" (2002). In 2003, her film "My Boss' Daughter," an uneven comedy that sat on the shelf for two years, was released when star Ashton Kutcher's star suddenly rose. Reid played the tempting offspring of Kutcher's employer. Reid turned in some of her funniest work as Danni, J.D.'s (Zach Braff) obsessive girlfriend, in a recurring role on the NBC sitcom "Scrubs" beginning in 2003. But again – no sooner would she prove her onscreen chops – than her work would be eclipsed by her off-screen reputation. Particularly notorious was a 2004 red carpet incident in which the seemingy oblivious actress accidentally bared her breast for the paparazzi, revealing its apparent surgerical enhancements. She next appeared in the howlingly bad thriller "Alone in the Dark" (2005) before developing a TV comedy pilot riffing on her hard-partying reputation. After little network interest, Reid signed on as the new host of E!'s venerable travel series, "Wild On..." – rechristened "Taradise" in her honor – beginning in the fall of 2005. But as past experiences dictated, the locational E! show proved too much temptation for the late night party girl. The show's ratings tanked, and, despite Reid's pleas to be taken seriously as an actress, the series did nothing for her career and only reaffirmed her wild child image. Taradise, her half-hour television show on the E! network, premiered in September 2005; it was canceled 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 budget phone and Internet provider. Reid appeared in the September 2007 issue of FHM magazine. Carson Daly made a cameo appearance in Josie and the Pussycats, in which Reid played the Pussycat Melody. In June 2001, Reid and Daly broke off their engagement. She had previously 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 American Football players Tom Brady, Jeremy Shockey,Kyle Boller 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 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, Reid made several numerical errors in hosting the minute-long countdown for the year. A video of the incident circled the Internet. Reports surfaced in October 2007 that she had been hospitalised at the Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center as a result of alcohol abuse. Reid has denied the reports, insisting, "I'm fine." Reid shocked people by her thinner appearance in November and December 2007. |
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