Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an American actress and model who has starred in films such as American Pie (1999) and Dr. T & the Women. In 2005, she played the lead in videogame adaptation Alone in the Dark.

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".

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.

On the night of Thursday November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed by a wardrobe malfunction at a highly publicized photo shoot at P. Diddy's thirty-fifth birthday party at Cipriani's Restaurant in New York 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 finally admitted having had her breasts augmented.

Her half-hour television show on the E! network, Taradise premiered in September 2005, but was cancelled the following month.

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) (currently in post-production)
• Land of Canaan (2006) (currently in post-production)

Quotes

"At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?"

"I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes."

"I don't like the typical good-looking guy. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I like guys with love handles. When he doesn't care 100 percent about his body, I don't have to obsess about mine. I hate a washboard stomach-does not turn me on."

"I hate being tickled. Sure, it makes me laugh, but when I get tickled, I get pissed off. I'm like a monkey when I get tickled - woo-hoo!"

"I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire."

"I know this sounds ridiculous, but I like guys with love handles. I hate a washboard stomach - that does not turn me on."

"I like when a guy makes me feel like a woman and a little girl at the same time."

"I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl."

"I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can."

"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."