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Carmen Electra was born Tara Leigh Patrick on April 20, 1972, in Sharonville, Ohio. She moved to Los
Angeles to pursue a music career. In 1991, she signed a record contract with Prince. Electra was a
Playboy model before joining the cast of Baywatch in 1997, replacing Pamela Anderson. That same
year, she was hired to host MTV’s Singled Out, replacing Jenny McCarthy. In 2003, Electra married
Dave Navarro and the two co-starred on an MTV reality series, ‘Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave.
Actress, musician and model Carmen Electra was born Tara Leigh Patrick on April 20, 1972, in
Sharonville, Ohio. Growing up with parents in the entertainment industry, Electra studied dance from a
very young age. After attending Cincinnati’s School for the Creative and Performing Arts, she decided
to pursue a career in music, moving from the midwest to Los Angeles, where she signed a record
contract with Prince in 1991. It was Prince who encouraged her to change her name, reportedly saying
that she looked like a “Carmen.”
Electra also worked as a model, posing several times for Playboy before being cast as Pamela
Anderson’s replacement on the television series Baywatch in 1997. That same year, she was hired by
MTV to host the popular game show Singled Out, replacing Jenny McCarthy, who left the program to
begin a comedy series. In addition to TV, Electra has had small roles in such feature films as Scary
Movie and Starsky and Hutch. Electra is perhaps best known for her off-screen headlines. In the
1990s, she was romantically linked with musicians Tommy Lee and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit. At the
end of the decade, she had a brief marriage to flamboyant Chicago Bulls basket player Dennis
Rodman. In 2003, she married rock musician Dave Navarro on MTV. The couple follow their nuptials
with a reality series for the cable network, entitled ‘Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave.