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Carmen Electra Biography
Carmen Electra was born April 20, 1972 and is an American model, television personality, actress and singer.
Carmen Electra was born in Cincinnati, 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.
Carmen Electra is not related to adult film actress Tera Patrick, born Linda Hopkins Shapiro.
Before moving to Los Angeles in 1991, she lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota and worked for Target Corporation. 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.
In 1995, Carmen 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.
Carmen 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).
