As one of the stars of the 1999 summer smash American Pie, Tara Reid experienced an almost meteoric ascent into overnight celebrity. Possessing the kind of buxom blond good looks that ensure future employment and Internet shrines, Reid was best-known for her role as The Big Lebowski's trophy wife, Bunny Lebowski, before being cast in Pie.

A native of Wyckoff, New Jersey, where she was born on November 8, 1975, Reid broke into acting at the age of six, when she was a contestant on the CBS children's game show, Child's Play. She went on to study at New York's Professional Children's School, where her classmates included Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jerry O'Connell, and Macaulay Culkin. After appearing in commercials for such products as Jell-O and Crayola, Reid landed a role on the sitcom Saved by the Bell: the New Class in 1994 and then had a recurring role on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives the following year.

She got her first substantial film roles in 1998, appearing in the Ed Wood-scripted I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, The Big Lebowski, the independent film Around the Fire, and Urban Legend, the latest in a long line of teen slasher flicks. Reid won some amount of recognition for the last film, which featured a Who's-Who line-up of post-pubescent stars and cast her as a campus radio talk show host. The following year, Reid earned a form of screen immortality with her role as the girlfriend of one of four high school guys who make a pact to lose their virginity in American Pie. She also appeared in more low-profile roles in the independent film Girl and in Cruel Intentions, which featured her as one of Ryan Phillippe's more unfortunate conquests. Later that year, she had a starring role in Body Shots, playing one of a group of twenty-something friends on the prowl for love and/or sex in Los Angeles.

Tara Reid is one of the sexiest young stars to hit the silver screen since Alicia Silverstone dazzled us all in Clueless, and is fast outpacing other promising young starlets with her smooth mix of beauty and talent.

Born November 8th, 1975 in New Jersey. Her parents, who run a pair of daycare centers, were prosperous enough to send their daughter to The Professional Children's School in New York City. Her fellow classmates included Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jerry O'Connell and Macaulay Culkin. Tara took an interest in acting early on, and began appearing in television commercials for McDonald's and Jell-O, amongst others.

Tara got her break in 1994 when she was cast on the longtime teen institution, Saved By the Bell. Although the show is not exactly known for creating successful alumni, Tara Reid has continued to prove the exception as she has slowly worked her way to the top. After spending a year on SBTB, she moved on to daytime television, with a recurring role on Days of Our Lives. Since leaving her soap opera days behind, Tara has smoothly balanced independent films with more prominent fare. She has proved to her detractors that she is not just a pretty face. Reid's biggest break came in The Big Lebowski, as the sexy and unscrupulous Bunny Lebowski. That film, together with the teen slasher Urban Legend and the sexual farce American Pie, have worked together to make Tara one of Hollywood's most promising youngsters.

American Pie 2 (2001)
Cruel Intentions/Cruel Intentions 2 (2001)
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Just Visiting (2001)
Around the Fire (2000)
Dr. T and the Women (2000)
Urban Legend/Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
American Pie (1999)
Body Shots (1999)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Girl (1999)
Around the Fire (1998)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Urban Legend (1998)

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