Tara remembers her first public performance, at the age of four, on a table top in a New Jersey mall, when an agent happened to hear her singing her heart out to passersby and offered her work in commercials. She attended the prestigious Professional Children's School in New York City, alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jerry O'Connell, Macualay Culkin, and Ben Taylor.

So she was ready for fame when she got her first role in 1982, in a TV series called Child's Play, and she really thought she had arrived when she landed a role on the TV soap, Days of Our Lives in 1995. But Tara Reid has been almost famous for years. She got some attention early on as Bunny Lebowski, in The Big Lebowski, when she offered a blow job for $1000. But she got killed off in the hit horror film Urban Legends. And she was one of Ryan Phillippe's first victims in the runaway success Cruel Intentions. But, finally, in 1999 all the almost famous disappointment ended when she appeared in a little film called American Pie.

American Pie, centered around high school and sex, and featuring a number of unforgettable scenes, struck a chord with teenagers everywhere. The film's box office success tossed it's players into the spotlight and created such a buzz that not one of the actors from the film has a second to spare these days.