Carmen Electra Biography

Early life

Carmen Electra (born April 20, 1972) is an American model, television personality, actress and singer. Cincinnati, in Sharonville, Ohio, as Tara Leigh Patrick to a family of Irish, German, and Native American (Cherokee) descent. She attended Princeton High School for four years in Sharonville, a suburb of Cincinnati and very briefly Walnut Hills High School. She is not related to adult film actress Tera Patrick, born Linda Hopkins Shapiro.

Career

After moving to California, she met singer Prince (a Minneapolis native), who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with Paisley Park Records, Prince's company, marking the start of a short-lived singing career with a girl rap group.

In 1995, Electra started appearing in various television programs. Then, in May of 1996 she appeared in Playboy magazine. This led to an increasing role as a television personality on various shows, including regular roles on Baywatch and MTV's Singled Out. She made a notable appearance on Howard Stern's television show in which she was strapped to a chair and tickled to the point she was laughing hysterically, stating afterward that she has the "most ticklish feet ever.", and another where Howard has her riding on a Sybian April 2006.

She has only done one genuine nude scene in a movie, early in her career in The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human.

Electra has appeared in several films, such as Good Burger (1997), The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999), the horror spoof Scary Movie (2000), and the remake of the 1970s TV show Starsky & Hutch (2004). She also regularly performed with the exotic dance troupe The Pussycat Dolls. Electra also created the highly successful Carmen Electra Aerobic Striptease series of DVDs which combines classic stripping moves with a low impact workout. Her most recent movie appearance is as Eugene Levy's trophy wife in Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

In 2005, she joined the voice cast of the animated series Tripping the Rift, replacing Gina Gershon as the voice of the sex android "Six".

Personal life

Electra achieved considerable notoriety during her on-again, off-again marriage to basketball star Dennis Rodman from 1998 to 1999. The wedding to Rodman took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Later, she had a brief affair with Tommy Lee, the ex-husband of Pamela Anderson. Borrowing another page from fellow Baywatch companion Anderson's publicity playbook, Electra was quoted in August 2004 that she was thinking of having her breast implants removed. She told World Entertainment News Network, "I had nice breasts to begin with. They weren´t the biggest boobs, (but) I just think it was really trendy (to have implants) at a certain time so I decided to do it. There are moments when I think it´s kind of silly and I wish I would´ve just stayed natural." However, based on her cleavage in recent films, it appears that the announcement was merely an attempt to generate a rumor.

Electra's current husband, musician Dave Navarro, was formerly the lead guitarist of the rock bands Jane's Addiction and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The couple documented their courtship and marriage on an MTV reality show in 2004 entitled Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave.

On July 17, 2006, she and Navarro announced their separation. Electra filed for divorce on August 10, 2006.

Carmen Electra Filmography - Movies - TV

• I Want Candy (2007) (post-production) .... Candy
• Hot Tamale (2006) .... Riley
• Scary Movie 4 (2006) .... Holly
• Date Movie (2006) .... Anne
• Lolo's Cafe (2006) (TV) (voice) .... Desiree
• "Tripping the Rift" (2004) TV Series .... Six (2005-)
• Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) .... Sarina Murtaugh
• Getting Played (2005) .... Lauren
• "Stacked"
  - Darling Nikki (2005) TV Episode .... Nikki Foos
• Searching for Bobby D (2005) .... Rebecca
• "Summerland"
  - Leaving Playa Linda (2005) TV Episode .... Mona
  - The Pleiades (2005) TV Episode .... Mona
  - Mr. and Mrs. Who (2005) TV Episode .... Mona
  - Sledgehammer (2005) TV Episode .... Mona
  - I am the Walrus (2005) TV Episode .... Mona
• "American Dad!"
  - Pilot (2005) TV Episode (voice) .... Lisa Silver
• "Hope & Faith"
  - Carmen Get It (2005) TV Episode .... Carmen
• Lil' Pimp (2005) (V) (voice) .... Honeysack
• Dirty Love (2005) .... Michelle Lopez
• Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004) .... Debbie
• "Method & Red"
  - Dogs (2004) TV Episode .... Kerry Norris
• "Monk"
  - Mr. Monk and the Panic Room (2004) TV Episode .... Chloe Blackburn
• Starsky & Hutch (2004) .... Staci
• "Eve"
  - The Talk (2003) TV Episode .... Zan
• My Boss's Daughter (2003) .... Tina
• Uptown Girls (2003) .... Celebrity
• "The New Tom Green Show"
  - Episode dated 18 July 2003 (2003) TV Episode
• "Greetings from Tucson"
  - The First Time (2003) TV Episode .... Rosa
• Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003) (TV) .... Lani McKenzie
• "King of the Hill"
  - Boxing Luanne (2003) TV Episode (voice) .... Angela
• Celebrity Temps (2003) (TV) .... The Temp. (pilot ep.)
• Whacked! (2002) .... Laura
• Rent Control (2002) .... Audrey
  ... aka Aunt Agatha's Apartment (Australia)
• Get Over It (2001) .... Mistress Moira
  ... aka Get Over It! (USA: promotional title)
• Perfume (2001) .... Simone
  ... aka Dress to Kill (USA: video title)
• Sol Goode (2001) .... Treasure
• "The Drew Carey Show"
  - Drew Live II (2000) TV Episode
• Scary Movie (2000) .... Drew Decker
• Won-G (2000) (V)
• Vacanze di Natale 2000 (1999) .... Esmeralda
  ... aka Christmas Vacation 2000 (International: English title)
• "Malcolm & Eddie"
  - Won't Power (1999) TV Episode .... Kelly
• The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999) .... The Female (Jenny Smith)
• "Hyperion Bay"
  - A Matter of Trust (1999) TV Episode .... Sarah Hicks
  - With Friends Like These... (1999) TV Episode .... Sarah Hicks
  - Valentine's Bay (1999) TV Episode .... Sarah Hicks
  - Strange Days (1999) TV Episode .... Sarah Hicks
  - The Takeover (1999) TV Episode .... Sarah Hicks
• "Sin City Spectacular"
  ... aka Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular (USA)
  - Episode #1.12 (1998) TV Episode
• "Soldier of Fortune, Inc."
  ... aka S.O.F. Special Ops Force (USA: second season title)
  ... aka S.O.F., Inc.
  ... aka SOF, Inc.
  - Spyder's Web (1998) TV Episode .... Tanya
  - Spyder Web (1998) TV Episode .... Tanya
• The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven (1998) (V) .... McKenna Ray/The Raven
  ... aka The Raven: Chosen One (USA: closing credits title)
• "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place"
  ... aka Two Guys and a Girl (USA: third season title)
  - Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Delivery (1998) TV Episode .... Isabella
• Starstruck (1998) .... Iona Shirley
• Baywatch: White Thunder at Glacier Bay (1998) (V) .... Lani McKenzie
• "Pacific Blue"
  - Heartbeat (1997) TV Episode .... Lani McKenzie
• "All That"
  - Ed Gets Married (1997) TV Episode .... Sue
• "Baywatch" .... Lani McKenzie (1997-1998)
  ... aka Baywatch Hawaii (USA: new title)
  - The Choice (1997) TV Episode .... Lani McKenzie
  - Next Generation (1997) TV Episode .... Lani McKenzie
  - Rookie Summer (1997) TV Episode .... Lani McKenzie
• Good Burger (1997) (uncredited) .... Roxanne
• An American Vampire Story (1997) .... Sulka
  ... aka American Vampire (USA: reissue title)
• "Baywatch Nights"
  ... aka Detectives on the Beach
  - Epilogue (1996) TV Episode .... Candy
• "Erotic Confessions"
  - At the Tone (1996) TV Episode .... Manager

  Carmen Electra Discography - Discs - Albums - Singles

• "Carmen Electra" year 1993 tracks 14 Paisley Park