Carmen Electra

Acting • Born 1972-04-20

Acting2Sharonville, Ohio, USA

Biography

Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), professionally known as Carmen Electra is a European-American/Native-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. 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.

Filmography

152 credits

Bedtime Stories

Movie • 2008

Hot Girl

Hot Tamale

Movie • 2006

Riley

Get Over It

Movie • 2001

Mistress Moira

Date Movie

Movie • 2006

Anne

Uptown Girls

Movie • 2003

Celebrity

My Boss's Daughter

Movie • 2003

Tina

Carmen Electra's Naked Women Wrestling League: Naked Revolution

Movie • 2007

Self - Host

Scary Movie

Movie • 2000

Drew Decker

Scary Movie 4

Movie • 2006

Holly

Lil' Pimp

Movie • 2005

Honeysack (voice)

Sol Goode

Movie • 2003

Treasure

Meet the Spartans

Movie • 2008

Queen Margo

Epic Movie

Movie • 2007

Mystique

Starsky & Hutch

Movie • 2004

Staci

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Movie • 2005

Sarina Murtaugh

Disaster Movie

Movie • 2008

Beautiful Assassin

I Want Candy

Movie • 2007

Candy

Christmas in Wonderland

Movie • 2007

Ginger Peachum

Rodman: For Better or Worse

Movie • 2019

Self (archive footage)

Christmas Vacation 2000

Movie • 1999

Esmeralda

Perfume

Movie • 2001

Simone

Merry F#%$in' Christmas

Movie • 2005

Self

An American Vampire Story

Movie • 1997

Sulka

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

Movie • 1999

The Female

Love in Hollywood

Movie • 1996

Self

Dirty Love

Movie • 2005

Michelle Lopez

Getting Played

Movie • 2005

Lauren

30 Days Until I'm Famous

Movie • 2004

Pauline

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding

Movie • 2003

Lani McKenzie

The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven

Movie • 1998

McKenna Ray / The Raven

Mardi Gras: Spring Break

Movie • 2011

Self

Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease, Vol 7 - Vegas Strip

Movie • 2007

Carmen Electra

Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease, Vol 6 - In the Bedroom

Movie • 2007

Carmen Electra

2-Headed Shark Attack

Movie • 2012

Anne Babish

Monster Island

Movie • 2004

Self

Zac Efron's Pool Party

Movie • 2009

Self

Finding Sandler

Movie • 2022

Self

Rent Control

Movie • 2003

Audrey

Good Burger 2

Movie • 2023

Roxanne

Playboy's Cheerleaders

Movie • 1997

Cheerleader

Back Nine

Movie • 2010

Judy

Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds

Movie • 2006

Self

Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease, Vol 1 - Aerobic Striptease

Movie • 2003

Carmen Electra

Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease, Vol 2 - Fit to Strip

Movie • 2003

Carmen Electra

Naked Women's Wrestling League

Movie • 2005

Self - Hostess

Lap Dance

Movie • 2014

Lexus

Naked Movie

Movie • 2008

Self

Chocolate City

Movie • 2015

Starstruck

Movie • 1998

Iona Shirley

Tungsten Grey is the Warmest Colour

Movie

Shania

Playboy's Celebrities

Movie • 1998

Herself

American Dreamz

Movie • 2006

Herself

Pledge This!

Movie • 2007

Herself

Whacked!

Movie • 2002

Laura

Good Burger

Movie • 1997

Roxanne (uncredited)

Barry Munday

Movie • 2010

Iconic Beauty

Prince: The Ryde Dyvine

Movie • 1992

Cleavage

Movie • 2002

Self/Narrator

Sunset Strip

Movie • 2012

Self

Welcome to Hollywood

Movie • 2000

Carmen Electra

Searching for Bobby D

Movie • 2005

Rebecca

The Book of Fire

Movie • 2015

Theodora

Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored

Movie • 2001

Self

Lit: All Access

Self

Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Movie • 2003

TV • 2004

Carmen Electra

The Tony Danza Show

TV • 2004

Self - Guest

Soccer AM

TV • 1995

Self

Best Week Ever

TV • 2004

American Dad!

TV • 2005

Lisa Silver (voice)

EP Daily

TV • 1997

Joey

TV • 2004

Carmen Electra

TV • 1997

Self

E! True Hollywood Story

TV • 1996

Fat Actress

TV • 2005

Carmen Electra

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

TV • 1992

The Charlotte Church Show

TV • 2006

Self - Guest

Off Centre

TV • 2001

Summerland

TV • 2004

Mona Canatti

Stacked

TV • 2005

MADtv

TV • 1995

Self - Guest Host

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

TV • 1993

Self - Guest

Just Shoot Me!

TV • 1997

Herself

Tripping the Rift

TV • 2004

Six of One (voice)

Celebrities Uncensored

TV • 2003

Self

Dance Fever

TV • 2003

Self - Judge

The Jamie Kennedy Experiment

TV • 2002

On Air with Ryan Seacrest

TV • 2004

Self

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

TV • 1999

Self - Guest

The New Tom Green Show

TV • 2003

Self

Manhunt: The Search for America's Most Gorgeous Male Model

TV • 2004

Self - Host

TRL

TV • 1998

E!'s 101

TV • 2003

Self

The Celebrity Dating Game

TV • 2021

Self

Aerobic Striptease

Ex Isle

TV • 2016

host

The Birthday Boys

TV • 2013

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

TV • 2013

Self

Baywatch

TV • 1989

Lani McKenzie

90210

TV • 2008

Vesta

Hell's Kitchen

TV • 2005

Self - Restaurant Patron

The Eric Andre Show

TV • 2012

Self

Ridiculousness

TV • 2011

Self

The Choice

TV • 2012

Self

Jane the Virgin

TV • 2014

Self

Hyperion Bay

TV • 1998

Sarah Hicks

The Reichen Show

TV • 2005

Self - Guest

Franklin & Bash

Self

Hollywood Squares

TV • 1998

Self - Panelist