| BIOGRAPHY
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.
Edging ever closer to leading woman status, Reid's star continued
to rise as the vibrant young actress took on roles in such high
profile efforts as Dr. T and the Women (2000), Josie and the Pussycats
(2001) and, of course, American Pie 2) (also 2001). After taming
the savage party animal in the lowbrow {\comedy Van Wilder, Reid
gave screen heartthrob Ashton Kutcher the runaround in the romantic
comedy My Boss's Daughter.
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FILMOGRAPHY
• Devil's Pond (2003)
• My Boss's Daughter (2003)
• National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
• American Pie 2 (2001)
• Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
• Just Visiting (2001)
• Around the Fire (2000)
• Dr. T and the Women (2000)
• American Pie (1999)
• Body Shots (1999)
• Cruel Intentions (1999)
• Girl (1999)
• Around the Fire (1998)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Urban Legend (1998) |
