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Carmen Electra was born in Cincinnati
(Ohio) on April 20, 1972. Of course, back then she was Tara Leigh
Patrick, just a little girl growing up in White Oak, Ohio. At the age of
nine, she was selected for the School for Creative and Performing Arts.
While she was there she took singing lessons, and by her teenage years,
she was dancing in musicals and doing her own choreographing for the
school's theater ensemble. Her goal was to eventually make it out to Los
Angeles and get a record deal, and at age fifteen, she took her first
big step.
She moved out to Minneapolis to stay with her sister and half sister,
and earned money acting as a model for the Target department stores.
Four years later, she packed up shop and moved to L.A., changed her name
to Carmen Electra, and one week later, she met the artist formerly known
as Prince. For all practical purposes, she had just been
‘discovered’.
In 1992, after meeting and auditioning for Prince, Carmen was signed to
his Paisley Park Records label. Despite the fact that Prince took her
under his wing (including promotions for her album in Rolling Stone and
on MTV) her first album was a dud. The video for the single "Go-Go
Dancer" was seldom seen on MTV, and when the 12" single hit
the stores in June (1992) it almost went straight to the bargain bin. In
1995, Carmen reinvented herself and appeared on the Nickelodeon show ALL
THAT. In March of 1996, Carmen posed nude for Playboy and did a Playboy
video, Playboy Cheerleaders, in which she sings the show stopper
‘2-4-6-8.' Also in 1996, Carmen hosted MTV's Loveline - only a glimpse
of things to come. On October 4, 1996, Lisa Berger (MTV's senior vice
president of original programming) announced that Carmen had been
selected to replace Jenny McCarthy on the MTV show Singled Out. The deal
was for at least 65 episodes.
Since that announcement, Carmen was signed on to replace Pamela Anderson
on Baywatch, she has appeared in a comic book, appeared as a national
spokesperson for Budweiser and recently filmed a small role in the
independent feature Dust and Stardust, a movie about making it and not
making it in Hollywood. Carmen currently lives in Los Angeles, and the
last we heard, she was definitely having the last laugh.
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Carmen Electra
Real name: Tara Patrick
Occupation
- Actress
Date of Birth
- 20 April 1972
Birth Place
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Mailing
Addresses
Carmen Electra
c/o Hyperion Bay, Warner Bros, 4000 Warner blvd
Burbank, CA 91520 USA
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c/o Baywatch
5433 Beethoven Street
Los Angeles, CA 90069
USA
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