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Carmen Electra
Birth Name: Tara Leigh Patrick
Date
of Birth: April 20, 1972
Place of Birth: Cinncinati, OH
Career Start: MTV Singled Out
Height: 5'4" Weight: 110lb
Education: Princeton High School, Cincinnati, Ohio School
for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Occupations: Actress,
Model.
Family
Husband: Dennis Rodman, Chicago Bulls
basketball player; married November 1998; separated March 1999;
filed for divorce April 1999
Father: entertainer,
guitarist
Mother: vocalist
Misc
Dated rapper
B-Real of Cypress Hill
Carmen appeared In Playboy's Nude
Celebrities March 1997
Appeared in Playboy June 1997
Carmen
appeared in Playboy magazine May 1996 in her own pictorial:
"Electra"
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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
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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. By 1993, Carmen's success was the
typical story of the flare that finally died. One year after her big
break, the name Carmen Electra had been forgotten. But the last
laugh had yet to come. 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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