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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.
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.
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 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. She briefly dated football players Tom Brady,
Jeremy Shockey, Kyle Boller and tennis player Mark Philippoussis. However,
she has the dubios distinction of being the reason for the Tara Reid
curse. Pundits have noted the Patriots' poor performance in 2002 and Kyle
Boller's failure as evidence of the curse.
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." |
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"If Carson was an actor, he'd
understand why I have to be away on sets and that if I have to kiss
another guy in a movie, I do it. He'd read the tabloids that I was
with Ashton Kutcher, but that was a bunch of bull. Then, I started
reading he was with a stripper, and that wasn't true. You start
tripping on each other for no reason. It makes you crazy." - about
part of why she and ex-fiancéé MTV VJ Carson Daly split up.
"Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces,
yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy
**it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death."
"It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be
in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done
everything I wanted.' I keep trying to get closer to that. I also
think when that happens, people will finally leave me alone."
"Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an
East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell
you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A."
"People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I
have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show."
"I think the reason I never ended up in as much trouble as Paris or
Lindsay seem to is that I'm not stupid, so I'd never do a lot of the
things those girls do, and I've always had good friends around me.
They need to straighten up a little bit and make better investments.
And they should surround themselves with better people who don't let
them get themselves in trouble. You'll never read a story about me
going out and partying when I'm supposed to be working. Nor would I
show up on a set drunk or miss a day's work - never." |
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Land of Canaan (2008) .... Amy
Clean Break (2007/I) .... Julia McKay
7-10 Split (2007) .... Lindsay/Lil Reno
Senior Skip Day (2007) .... Ellen Harris
If I Had Known I Was a Genius (2007) .... Stephanie
... aka Genius: If Only I Had Known (USA: poster title)
Silent Partner (2005) .... Dina
... aka Теневой партнер (Russia)
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005) .... Lola Byrne
"Scrubs" .... Danni Sullivan (11 episodes, 2003-2005)
- My Quarantine (2005) TV episode .... Danni Sullivan
- My Best Friend's Wedding (2004) TV episode .... Danni Sullivan
- My Self-Examination (2004) TV episode .... Danni Sullivan
- My Fault (2004) TV episode .... Danni Sullivan
- My Choosiest Choice of All (2004) TV episode .... Danni Sullivan
(6 more)
Alone in the Dark (2005) .... Aline Cedrac
Hitched (2005) (TV) .... Theresa
Incubus (2005) .... Jay
"Quintuplets" .... Ms. Foley (1 episode, 2004)
- Teacher's Pet (2004) TV episode .... Ms. Foley
Knots (2004) .... Emily
... aka Sex, Love, and Lies (USA: TV title)
My Boss's Daughter (2003) .... Lisa Taylor
Devil's Pond (2003) .... Julianne
... aka Heaven's Pond (Philippines: English title) (USA: working
title)
Van Wilder (2002) .... Gwen Pearson
... aka Van Wilder: Party Liaison (Australia) (Philippines: English
title) (UK) (USA: working title)
... aka National Lampoon's Van Wilder (USA: complete title)
... aka Party Animals - ... wilder geht's nicht! (Germany)
American Pie 2 (2001) .... Vicky Lathum
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) .... Melody Valentine
Just Visiting (2001) .... Angelique
... aka Visiteurs en Amérique, Les (France)
Dr T and the Women (2000) .... Connie
... aka Dr. T and the Women (Germany) (USA: alternative spelling)
"G vs E" .... Luis' Roommate (1 episode, 2000)
... aka Good vs Evil (USA: new title)
- Underworld (2000) TV episode .... Luis' Roommate
Body Shots (1999) .... Sara Olswang
American Pie (1999) .... Victoria 'Vicky' Lathum
Around the Fire (1999) .... Jennifer
Cruel Intentions (1999) .... Marci Greenbaum
What We Did That Night (1999) (TV) .... The Girl
... aka Murder at Devil's Glen (UK) (USA)
Urban Legend (1998) .... Sasha Thomas
... aka Mixed Culture
... aka Urban Legend (France)
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) .... Prom Queen/Nightclub
Bartender
... aka Ed Wood's I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
... aka I Awoke Early the Day I Died (USA)
Girl (1998) .... Cybil
The Big Lebowski (1998) .... Bunny Lebowski
"California Dreams" .... Sarah (1 episode, 1996)
... aka Dreams
- Graduation Day (1996) TV episode .... Sarah
"Saved by the Bell: The New Class" .... Sandy (1 episode, 1994)
- Squash It (1994) TV episode .... Sandy
A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) .... Amanda |
