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.
Carmen Electra Biography / Wiki
| Name | Carmen Electra |
| Also Know | Кармен Ðлектра, Tara Leigh Patrick |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Sharonville, Ohio, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1972-04-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 50 |
| Deathday |
Carmen Electra Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human | The Female | 1999-09-03 | David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as … |
| The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven | McKenna Ray / The Raven | 1998-05-26 | When a serial killer mysteriously and savagely murders a young native woman in rural Los Angeles County, her sister McKenna must replace her as the ke… |
| Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease, Vol 7 – Vegas Strip | Carmen Electra | 2007-12-18 | Aerobic Striptease comes to the city that is famous for its “Strip” – in more ways than one – in Carmen’s Electra’s Aerobic Striptease: Vegas … |
| Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease, Vol 6 – In the Bedroom | Carmen Electra | 2007-12-18 | Carmen’s back and bringing total body fitness to the sexiest room in the house in Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease: In the Bedroom. A follow-up… |
| 2-Headed Shark Attack | Anne Babish | 2012-06-26 | A Semester at Sea ship is attacked and sunk by a mutated two-headed shark, and the survivors seek refuge on a deserted atoll. The coeds, however, are … |
| Monster Island | Herself | 2004-03-07 | Mutant radioactive bugs attack VJs, Carmen Electra and an island full of MTV contest winners in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to B-movies, monster flic… |
| Back Nine | Judy | 2010-09-14 | A past-his-prime professional golfer plays small time tourneys to re-qualify for the PGA…. |
| Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease, Vol 1 – Aerobic Striptease | Carmen Electra | 2003-08-15 | Developed by Carmen Electra with top choreographers and fitness professionals, Volume 1 in the Aerobic Striptease series introduces you to the stripte… |
| Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease, Vol 2 – Fit to Strip | Carmen Electra | 2003-08-15 | With several mini-workouts targeted at the hips, buns and abs, FIT TO STRIP whips the body into shape and helps individuals achieve the confidence to … |
| Cleavage | Herself | 2002-12-10 | “Cleavage” is an uplifting and informative journey to the most eye-catching destination on earth: The space between a woman’s breasts. Cleavage is wha… |
| Hot Tamale | Riley | 2006-04-23 | A road trip to Los Angeles inadvertently leads a young man from Wyoming into a wild maze of psychotic hit-men, racy women, jewel thieves and a salsa b… |
| Meet the Spartans | Queen Margo | 2008-01-24 | The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 Spartans to defend their homeland against the inv… |
| Getting Played | lauren | 2005-12-10 | Three beautiful women (Electra, Dash, and Fox) who have had their share of men trouble enter into a game of fun in which they choose a random guy and … |
| Lit: All Access | Herself | 2004-11-16 | With over two hours of footage covering the band’s 10 year history, “All Access” provides an insightful and entertaining glimpse into their rise to st… |
| I Want Candy | Candy | 2007-03-23 | Two hopeful lads from Leatherhead trying to break into the movies stumble upon the opportunity of a lifetime. Frustrated by their arty film teacher, w… |
| Dirty Love | Michelle Lopez | 2005-09-23 | The klutzy yet stunning Rebecca Sommers walks in on her hunky boyfriend in bed with another woman. They break up and Rebecca starts to fall apart, but… |
| Rent Control | Audrey | 2003-10-22 | Aspiring actors in New York try to keep the death of one’s aunt a secret so they can stay in her cheap apartment…. |
| Lap Dance | Lexus | 2014-12-05 | An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer to care for her cancer stricken father. Once the pact the couple m… |
| Tungsten Grey is the Warmest Colour | Shania | This parody of 2013’s Blue is the Warmest Colour follows a woman on the quest for love…. | |
| Whacked! | Laura | 2002-03-01 | Mark and Tony may be adopted, but they’re as tight as brothers can be. They even have the same occupation: They’re double-dealing hit men, one for the… |
| The Book of Fire | Theodora | 2015-11-22 | A 19-year-old girl discovers she is the descendant of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, and she learns that the emperor might have unleashed the plague… |
| With Friends Like These | Bridget | With Friends Like These is a reunion with a difference, set in the home of Simon, a hitherto struggling actor and minor celebrity whose treading of th… | |
| Christmas Vacation 2000 | Esmeralda | 1999-12-17 | Milanese and Naples people go to Cortina d’Ampezzo on Christmas holidays… |
| Playboy’s Celebrities | Herself | 2001-03-27 | Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind collection as Playboy takes a look at these world-class celebrity beauties. This revealing video celebrates some of the… |
| Lil’ Pimp | Honeysack (voice) | 2005-01-11 | A comedy about a nine-year-old pimp, Lil’ Pimp, who hustles his ho’s around the neighborhood. Along with his Mom, Pop, pimpin’ pals Fruitjuice and Nag… |
| Sol Goode | Treasure | 2003-03-11 | Sol Goode, a charismatic L.A. twenty-something, has always relied on charm, good looks, and fast talk to glide through life. But his luck may have run… |
| Christmas in Wonderland | Ginger Peachum | 2007-12-27 | Three kids and their Dad move from L.A to Edmonton. When they go shopping at West Edmonton Mall they find counterfeit cash. They inadvertently help ca… |
| An American Vampire Story | Sulka | 1997-01-24 | A group of friends go on a vacation with some new friends that turn out to be vampires, they hire a famous vampire killer to help them…. |
| Erotic Confessions: Intimacy | Manager (segment “At the Tone”) | 1995-01-01 | Collection of 5 episodes from the TV Series: Midnight Showing; Party for Two; An Erotic Xmas Carol; The Bad Boy; At the Tone…. |
| Full of It | Carmen Electra | 2007-03-01 | A teenager tells outrageous lies at his new high school, only to have them suddenly come true…. |
| Merry F#%$in’ Christmas | Self | 2005-11-27 | Denis Leary and a cast of many others celebrate Christmas Leary-style. Packed with original music and skits, this is a great spin on the usual holiday… |
| Love in Hollywood | Self | 1996-12-08 | Various Hollywood people talk about love…. |
| Date Movie | Anne | 2006-02-17 | Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man, his crush, his parents, and her father…. |
| Bedtime Stories | Hot Girl | 2008-12-24 | Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who’s always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fa… |
| 30 Days Until I’m Famous | Pauline | 2004-05-07 | A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star…. |
| Mardi Gras: Spring Break | Self | 2011-09-23 | For three college guys, it’s senior year and the co-ed experience has left them high and dry. Their solution: A road trip to Mardi Gras, where beaut… |
| Dragula | Lisa | 2014-06-24 | A high school senior who overcomes his emotional dysfunction and self-esteem issues when he unwittingly meets Dragula…. |
| Cheaper by the Dozen 2 | Sarina Murtaugh | 2005-12-21 | Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight c… |
| Perfume | Simone | 2001-04-08 | A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York Ci… |
| Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! | Sybil Williams | 2009-01-01 | A romantic comedy featuring a Jewish family who struggles coming to terms with their son’s non-Jewish and gay boyfriend. When the gay couple adopts a … |
| Mimic: Sentinel | Carmen Electra (archive footage) | 2003-04-14 | A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects…. |
| My Boss’s Daughter | Tina | 2003-08-21 | When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it’ll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on â… |
| Disaster Movie | Beautiful Assassin | 2008-08-29 | The filmmaking team behind the hits “Scary Movie,” “Date Movie,” “Epic Movie” and “Meet The Spartans” this time puts its unique, inimitable stamp on o… |
| Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding | Lani McKenzie | 2003-02-28 | Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff) was believed to have died in a boating accident at the end of the 10th season of Baywatch. However, it turns out he… |
| Starstruck | Iona Shirley | 1998-04-18 | An aspiring screenwriter in Los Angeles befriends a washed up, former teen idol and develops an unhealthy relationship with him…. |
| Sunset Strip | Herself | 2012-03-16 | A documentary on the famous Los Angeles street…. |
| Max Havoc: Curse Of The Dragon | Debbie | 2004-11-10 | A former kickboxer returns to his fighting ways when he encounters a gang in Guam…. |
| Finding Sandler | Self | Years after a missed opportunity with his hero (Adam Sandler), a determined young filmmaker (David Seth Cohen) goes on a quest to re-capture what coul… | |
| Starsky & Hutch | Staci | 2004-03-05 | Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson as they’re paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcom… |
| Scary Movie 4 | Holly | 2006-04-12 | Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien “Tr-iPods” are i… |
| Epic Movie | Mystique | 2007-01-25 | When Edward, Peter, Lucy and Susan each follow their own path, they end up finding themselves at Willy’s Chocolate factory. Walking through a wardrobe… |
| Chocolate City | DJ | 2015-05-22 | Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whi… |
| Good Burger | Roxanne | 1997-07-25 | Two hapless youths lead their burger joint in a fight against the giant fast-food chain across the street…. |
| Barry Munday | Iconic Beauty | 2010-03-13 | Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital aft… |
| Scary Movie | Drew Decker | 2000-07-07 | A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up… |
| Get Over It | Mistress Moira | 2001-03-08 | When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the h… |
| Searching for Bobby D | Rebecca | 2005-05-14 | Â … |
| Mr. 3000 | Tonight Show Guest | 2004-06-15 | Aging baseball star who goes by the nickname, Mr. 3000, finds out many years after retirement that he didn’t quite reach 3,000 hits. Now at age 47 he’… |
| Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored | Herself | 2001-05-31 | See inside the exclusive Playboy Mansion, with parties attended by all the A-List celebrities… |
| Pledge This! | Herself | 2006-12-01 | At popular South Beach University, filthy rich super-snob Victoria English is the absolute queen of leading Greek student club, Sigma Sigma. In order … |
| Prince: The Ryde Dyvine | 1992-12-19 | An ABC TV Special that aired on December 19th 1992… | |
| Welcome to Hollywood | Carmen Electra | 1998-10-01 | A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood…… |
| Uptown Girls | Celebrity | 2003-08-15 | Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray… |
| American Dreamz | Herself | 2006-03-04 | The new season of “American Dreamz,” the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country’s attention, as the competition looks to … |
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