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Manning was born in Falls Church,
Virginia. Her parents divorced in 1981, and her mother, Sharyn, worked two
jobs in order to support Taryn and her older brother Kellin. Her father,
Bill Manning, a musician and hotel manager, was the cousin of Archie
Manning. When she was 14, her troubled musician father, Bill, committed
suicide. "My dad was a big drinker and he was cheating. My mom fled with
us kids in the middle of the night," Taryn has said. Her childhood in a
trailer park was tough but happy.
Taryn grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where her mother moved to after her
divorce, and later in Los Alamitos, California, where she attended Orange
County High School of the Arts. Manning started dancing at age twelve. She
kickboxes and does Tae Bo. She's also a champion dancer, rollerskater, and
has a third degree green belt in karate, having been named a State
Champion in Karate in Arizona.
On September 22, 2005, Manning discussed her experience as one of 140
passengers on JetBlue Airways Flight 292, which performed an emergency
landing with faulty landing gear. Speaking as a guest on Craig Ferguson's
late night talk show, she explained, "When we saw our plane on TV as
'breaking news'... it was the most surreal, out of body experience I ever
had... I just composed a little something so that if anything happened
would know that our last goodbye wasn't on the phone... A lot of the women
of course were crying... There was a gentleman across the way who was
writing in his journal and crying, and seeing that isn't easy". Upon
landing safely, she described the atmosphere of jubilant cheering and
applause inside the airplane, "It sounded like the RCA Dome in there"
(where her cousin Peyton Manning plays football with the Indianapolis
Colts).
In 2005 she was "about to get engaged" to her boyfriend of one year, actor
Derek Magyar, according to her good friend and pr-woman Siri Garber. After
the plane had a scary landing due to it's broken landing gear, Taryn told
the press: "I wrote little notes to my boyfriend and to my mom and
brother. I was not wanting to be writing what I was writing." The note to
Magyar said: "I love you so much. Always remember that. Please don't be
sad. I'll always be with you." He got the message.
She had five tiny tattoos, but in 2005 Manning went through a painful
laser treatment to have her tattoos removed. Manning insisted she had
"grown out" of her love for skin art and wanted all five of her tattoos
lasered off.
She is into yoga.
Manning began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in small roles in
several film and television productions, including episodes of The
Practice, Get Real, Boston Public, NYPD Blue and Popular. She also
auditioned for the American version of Popstars, which aired in early 2001
on The WB.
Her first role in a major motion picture was in the Kirsten Dunst and Jay
Hernandez romantic-comedy crazy/beautiful in which she played the best
friend of Dunst's character. crazy/beautiful was followed shortly by a
prominent role in the 2002 feature film, Crossroads, where she played one
of two best friends of pop star Britney Spears. Her subsequent film roles
included supporting parts in White Oleander, 8 Mile, A Lot Like Love and
the historical epic Cold Mountain.
In 2004 film Dandelion, Manning played a free-spirited Idaho girl whose
affair with a former juvenile criminal leads to disaster.
In 2005, she appeared in the drama film Hustle & Flow, opposite Terrence
Howard, playing a troubled prostitute in Memphis, Tennessee. The film
received critical acclaim and was generally considered a success. Manning
was nominated in Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards in
category Best Breakthrough Performance for: Hustle & Flow.
Her next film will be Weirdsville, a comedy co-starring Scott Speedman and
Wes Bentley. In 2007, she played Ivy Chitty on the short-lived but
critically acclaimed Fox television series Drive, which was a drama about
various people competing in an illegal cross-country road race. In a
comedy film After Sex Manning played the supporting role of Alanna. After
Sex is an edgy relationship comedy that uses sex as a background to
examine intimacy and vulnerability. It's a humorous, yet honest look at
the complexity of modern day relationships told through nine separate
couples. Mila Kunis, Zoë Saldaña, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Marc Blucas are
also starring in the film. Manning and Saldaña have worked together
before, in Crossroads.
Manning is also co-starring in Jack and Jill vs. the World with actor
Freddie Prinze Jr. The film tells about a cynical guy falls for a girl
with a joie de vivre and a secret, a cultural revolution ensues. Manning
and Prinze have been shooting the movie in Canada and it should be out in
2007. Manning stars in 2008 film "Shifter" with Bai Ling and singer
Samantha Mumba. The project is in production right now.
In 2003, Manning and her brother Kellin formed the band Boomkat. Their
debut album, Boomkatalog.One, was released on March 18th, 2003. The album
included 14 tracks. Boomkat released two singles "The Wreckoning" and
"What U Do 2 Me." The first single, "The Wreckoning", hit #1 on the Hot
Dance Music/Club Play chart. Boomkat's music can also be heard in at least
two other films: "The Wreckoning" in The Italian Job and "Now Understand
This" in The Hot Chick. In an interview in October 2005's issue of Nylon
magazine, Taryn mentioned that Boomkat would be back eventually, and that
she is writing songs for the new album once they find another record
label. DreamWorks Records was Boomkat's record label from 2002 to 2004.
Taryn told: "They can shove it! They dropped us, and it hurt. They didn't
like the fact that I was an actress, too."
In 2002 she sang a rendition of "I'll Take You There" with Tweet in
several Gap commercials directed by Peter Lindbergh. Boomkat songs have
also been included on the soundtracks to 8 Mile and Crossroads, two films
Taryn also co-starred in.
Taryn recorded new songs for an anticipated upcoming solo album,
tentatively titled A Million Trillion Stars. Recently on her MySpace page,
she has stated it will be up on iTunes very soon. In late 2007 it was
announced that the project is not going to be a solo album, but a new
Boomkat record. In October 2007 Manning started shooting a new music
video, the title is still unknown. |
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Shifter (2008) .... La, jing
Untitled Gehenna Project (2009) .... Doc
Kill Theory (2008) .... Alex
Waking Madison (2008) .... Margaret
The Speed of Thought (2007) .... Kira
Your Name Here (2008) .... Nikki
"Viva Laughlin" .... Geneva (1 episode, 2007)
- What a Whale Wants (2007) TV episode .... Geneva
"Drive" .... Ivy Chitty / ... (7 episodes, 2007)
- Rearview (2007) TV episode .... Ivy Chitty
- The Extra Mile (2007) TV episode .... Ivy Chitty
- No Turning Back (2007) TV episode .... Ivy Chitty
- Let the Games Begin (2007) TV episode .... Ivy Chitty
- Partners (2007) TV episode .... Ivy Chitty
(2 more)
Cult (2007) .... Cassandra
After Sex (2007) .... Alanna
Weirdsville (2007) .... Matilda
Jack and Jill vs. the World (2007) .... Jill
Banshee (2006) (TV) .... Sage
The Breed (2006) .... Sara
Unbeatable Harold (2006) .... Sandy
A Lot Like Love (2005) .... Ellen Martin
"CSI: Miami" .... Heidi Dillon (1 episode, 2005)
- Money Plane (2005) TV episode .... Heidi Dillon
Hustle & Flow (2005) .... Nola
Lucky 13 (2005/I) .... Sam
Dandelion (2004) .... Danny Voss
Debating Robert Lee (2004)
Cold Mountain (2003) .... Shyla
"The Twilight Zone" .... Tina (1 episode, 2003)
- Fair Warning (2003) TV episode .... Tina
8 Mile (2002) .... Janeane
... aka 8 Mile (Germany)
White Oleander (2002) .... Niki
... aka Weißer Oleander (Germany)
Crossroads (2002/I) .... Mimi
"Boston Public" .... Cara Glynne (1 episode, 2001)
- Chapter Twenty-Seven (2001) TV episode .... Cara Glynne
Crazy/Beautiful (2001) .... Maddy
"NYPD Blue" .... Tracy (1 episode, 2001)
- Oh Golly Goth (2001) TV episode .... Tracy
"Popular" .... Ashley #3 (1 episode, 2000)
- Misery Loathes Company (2000) TV episode .... Ashley #3
The Specials (2000) .... Autograph Hound
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (2000) (TV) .... Tatooed Dancer
"Pacific Blue" (1 episode, 2000)
- Blind Eye (2000) TV episode
"Get Real" .... Rebecca Peabody (9 episodes, 1999-2000)
- The Distance (2000) TV episode .... Rebecca Peabody
- Waiting (2000) TV episode .... Rebecca Peabody
- Prey (1999) TV episode .... Rebecca Peabody
- Performance Anxiety (1999) TV episode .... Rebecca Peabody
- Anatomy of a Rumor (1999) TV episode .... Rebecca Peabody
(4 more)
Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story (1999) (TV) ....
Groupie
"The Practice" .... Jenny Rains (1 episode, 1999)
- Of Human Bondage (1999) TV episode .... Jenny Rains
Speedway Junky (1999) (uncredited) .... Girl in Car |
