Celebrity biographies

Tara Reid
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 students who make a pact to lose their virginity by graduation day 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. Reid went on playing one of Richard Gere's daughters in Robert Altman's Dr. T. & the Women alongside Liv Tyler and Kate Hudson

Filmography
Alone in the Dark (2004) .... Aline Cedrac
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2004) .... Lola Byrne
Knots (2004) .... Emily
Heaven's Pond (2003) .... Julianne Olsen
My Boss's Daughter (2003) .... Lisa
Van Wilder (2002) .... Gwen Pearson
American Pie 2 (2001) .... Vicky Lathum
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) .... Melody Valentine
Just Visiting (2001) .... Angelique
Dr. T & the Women (2000) .... Connie Travis
Body Shots (1999) .... Sara Olswang
American Pie (1999) .... Vicky Lathum
Around the Fire (1999) .... Jennifer
Cruel Intentions (1999) .... Marci Greenbaum
What We Did That Night (1999) (TV) .... The Girl
Urban Legend (1998) .... Sasha Thomas
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) .... Prom Queen/Nightclub Bartender
Girl (1998) .... Cybil
The Big Lebowski (1998) .... Bunny Lebowski
"Days of Our Lives" (1965) TV Series .... Ashley (1995)
"Saved by the Bell: The New Class" (1993) TV Series .... Sandy (1994)
A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) .... Amanda
"Child's Play" (1982) TV Series .... Cast Member (1982)