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Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an American actress and model who has starred in films such as American Pie
(1999), American Pie 2
(2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder
(2002), and Dr. T & the Women
(2000). In 2005, she played the lead in videogame adaptation Alone in the Dark
.

Early life

Reid was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, and is of Irish, English, Hungarian, French, and Italian descent. 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 Ben Taylor, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Macaulay Culkin. 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 recently voted Reid "top party animal".

Fame

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. She has appeared as J.D.'s (Zach Braff) unfaithful girlfriend in the NBC comedy Scrubs.

"Wardrobe malfunction"

On the night of November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed by a wardrobe malfunction at a highly publicized photo shoot at P. Diddy's 35th birthday party at Cipriani's Restaurant in New York City when her dress fell, exposing her left breast. It took a relatively long amount of time for Reid to notice the malfunction, which led some to suspect that she was inebriated. Scar tissue was visible around Reid's nipple, confirming rumors of breast implants. The photographs were widely distributed. In August 2005, she publicly admitted that her breasts received implants.

Later career

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. Though Taradise was a commercial flop, it held a guilty pleasure appeal to many for its candid, on-location scenes of a drunken and increasingly portly Reid, juxtaposed against documentary style commentary scenes of a sober and slimmed down Reid (that were clearly filmed later). Previously during Summer 2005 she was busy shooting Incubus in Romania where she made her rounds with "party pal" Paris Hilton at an assortment of clubs.

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)
Silent Partner (2005)
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
(2005)
Incubus (2006)
Land of Canaan (2006)

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