Person Details

Birthday:

Aliases: Кармен Электра , Tara Leigh Patrick

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Sharonville, Ohio, USA

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 22

TV Involvements: 17


Most Famous Work

Biography

Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), professionally known as Carmen Electra is an American glamour model, actress, television personality, singer, dancer and sex symbol. She gained fame for her appearances in Playboy magazine, on the MTV game show Singled Out, on the TV series Baywatch, and dancing with the Pussycat Dolls, and has since had roles in the parody films Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie. Electra was born in Sharonville, Ohio, the daughter of Patricia, a singer, and Harry, a guitarist and entertainer. She attended Ann Weigel Elementary School and then studied dance at Dance Artists dance studio under Gloria J. Simpson, in Western Hills, a neighborhood of Cincinnati. Her mother died of a brain tumor in 1998. Her older sister Debbie died from a heart attack, also in 1998. Carmen graduated from Princeton High School in Sharonville. Carmen Electra also attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) in the Cincinnati Public School District. She has Irish, German, and Cherokee ancestry. Electra started her professional career in 1990 as a dancer at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio in the show "It’s Magic", one of the more popular shows in the park's history. In 1991, she moved to California and met Prince. Soon after meeting Prince, Electra signed a recording contract with Prince's Paisley Park Records and began a short-lived singing career.During her time at Paisley Park Records, she officially became known as Carmen Electra. Electra on June 3, 2008. In 1995, Electra started appearing in television programs. In May 1996 she was featured in a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine, the first of several. This exposure led to higher profile television appearances, including Baywatch (cast member from 1997–1998, as Leilani "Lani" McKenzie) and MTV's Singled Out. She returned to Baywatch for the 2003 reunion movie, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding. Electra was featured in Playboy four more times, with her second appearance in June 1997, third in December 2000, fourth in April 2003 and her fifth in the January 2009 anniversary issue. She was on the cover three times, in December 2000, April 2003 and on the 55th anniversary Issue in January 2009. Electra has appeared in films such as American Vampire (1997), Good Burger (1997), The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999), the horror spoof Scary Movie (2000) and also appeared in Meet the Spartans (2008), Scary Movie 4 (2006), Epic Movie (2007), Date Movie (2006), Disaster Movie (2008), the remake of the 1970s TV show Starsky & Hutch (2004) and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. She won an MTV Movie Award (best kiss) for Starsky & Hutch. She also appeared in an episode of House in which she portrayed herself as an injured golfer and an injured farmer, playing out House's fantasy. In 1999, she appeared in the Bloodhound Gang's music video of "The Inevitable Return of the Great White Dope." In 2005, she joined the voice cast of the animated series Tripping the Rift, replacing Gina Gershon as the voice of the sexy android "Six". Also in 2005, she began the Naked Women's Wrestling League, acting as the commissioner for the professional wrestling promotion. In late 2006, Carmen began to be featured in commercials by Taco Bell.

Most Famous Work

House
Average
9

House

(2004) Carmen Electra
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Average
7
Hell's Kitchen
Average
7

Hell's Kitchen

(2005) Self - Restaurant Patron
Baywatch Nights
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5

Baywatch Nights

(1995) Candy
Baywatch
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6

Baywatch

(1989) Lani McKenzie
RuPaul's Drag Race
Average
7

RuPaul's Drag Race

(2009) Self - Judge
90210
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6

90210

(2008) Vesta
The Last Dance
Average
8

The Last Dance

(2020) Self

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Roxanne
2022 Self
2021 Self
2020 Self
2019 Self (archive footage)
2016 Self
host
2015 Theodora
DJ
2014 Lexus
Herself
Lisa
2013 N/A
Self
2012 Anne Babish
Self
Self
Self
2011 Self
Self
Bridget Barnes
2010 Sybil Williams
Judy
Iconic Beauty
2009 Self
Self - Judge
2008 Hot Girl
Vesta
Beautiful Assassin
Self
Queen Margo
2007 Ginger Peachum
Carmen Electra
Carmen Electra
Self
Candy
Carmen Electra
Mystique
2006 Herself
N/A
Riley
Holly
Herself
Anne
N/A
2005 Sarina Murtaugh
lauren
Self
Self - Guest
Michelle Lopez
Self
Self - Restaurant Patron
Rebecca
N/A
N/A
Lisa Silver (voice)
Honeysack (voice)
Self
2004 Herself
Carmen Electra
Herself
Debbie
N/A
Self - Guest
Self
Self (uncredited)
N/A
Pauline
Herself
Staci
N/A
Six of One (voice)
N/A
N/A
Self
2003 Audrey
Carmen
N/A
Self
Herself - Carmen Electra
Tina
Carmen Electra
Carmen Electra
Celebrity
N/A
Self
Self
Self
Herself
Treasure
Lani McKenzie
N/A
2002 Herself
Chloe Blackburn
N/A
Laura
N/A
2001 N/A
Self
Simone
Herself
Mistress Moira
2000 N/A
Drew Decker
1999 Esmeralda
The Female
Self - Guest
1998 Carmen Electra
Sarah Hicks
N/A
McKenna Ray / The Raven
Iona Shirley
Isabella
1997 N/A
Self
Roxanne (uncredited)
N/A
self
Herself
Sulka
Angela (voice)
1996 Self
N/A
N/A
1995 Self - Guest Host
Candy
N/A
Manager (segment "At the Tone")
1993 Self - Guest
1992 N/A
N/A
1989 N/A
Lani McKenzie
1988 N/A
Self
Shania
N/A
Bridget
Self - Host
Year Character Movie/Tv

Creator

Year Role Movie/Tv
2003 Creator
Year Role Movie/Tv

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