Carmen Electra Is Still Sizzling


Baywatch alum Carmen Electra recently guest starred on the WB favorite Summerland. She plays a minor character, but this woman has major star power. The actress is consistently a top search on the internet, due to her curvaceous figure, arresting blue eyes, and off-screen antics.

Electra, formerly known as Tara Leigh Patrick, was born in 1972 near Cincinnati, Ohio. Her early ambition was to be a singer, and she released an album in 1992 under the tutelage of Prince. Her music career went nowhere, but Electra had plenty of other assets that would help her make it big. In 1996, she hosted MTV's Loveline and replaced Jenny McCarthy on the game show Singled Out. The following year, Electra joined Baywatch. She also appeared in numerous Playboy spreads and videos and later created her own line of aerobic striptease products. Her popularity surged.

Over the next few years the pinup girl dabbled in film and television. She worked on the short-lived series Hyperion Bay and had a small role in Scary Movie. She also appeared in Get Over It, My Boss's Daughter, and Starsky & Hutch. Upcoming films include Hot Tamale and Getting Played.

In addition to her voluptuous figure, Electra is notorious for her romantic entanglements. In 1998, she made headlines by marrying basketball star Dennis Rodman. The couple divorced one year later after many public squabbles. In 2003, Electra tied the knot with rock guitarist Dave Navarro from Jane's Addiction (and now Red Hot Chili Peppers). They documented their wedding on the series 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave.
-Marie Talmon
Perhaps more famous for her physical attributes than for her talent, Carmen Electra managed to parlay a stint as an @MTV game show hostess into a career as a TV and movie actress. Born Tara Leigh Patrick and raised in Ohio, Electra left her performing arts high school with plans to become a singer. After a failed album for Prince's @Paisley Park label in the early '90s, however, Electra shifted direction. Along with her first Playboy spread, the aspiring entertainer scored her career breakthrough when she replaced Jenny McCarthy as the co-host of @MTV's highly-rated dating game Singled Out in 1996. After the show went off the air, Electra successfully stepped in for another buxom TV blonde when she took over lifeguarding duties from Pamela Anderson on the syndicated hit Baywatch from 1997 to 1998. Elektra moved to features with a bit part in the comedy Good Burger (1997) and larger roles in indie movies Starf*cker (1998), The Chosen One: The Legend of the Raven (1998), and Starstruck (1999). It was Electra's infamous several-day marriage to flamboyant basketball star Dennis Rodman in 1998, though, that further augmented her celebrity. Keeping her assets and tabloid fame in humorous perspective, Electra followed her role as what else, The Female, in the mockumentary The Mating Habits of Earthbound Humans (1999) with a self-parodic turn as the bodacious first victim in the hit horror send-up Scary Movie (2000). While Elektra failed to land any big successes in the ensuing handful of years, 2004 saw her emerge again, gaining notice on both the large and small screens. In the wake of such hit shows as The Osbournes, The Anna Nicole Show, and, most notably, Newlyweds, Elektra and husband-to-be Dave Navarro agreed to let an @MTV camera crew record their lives for the reality show Til Death Do Us Part. Meanwhile, she also showed up to steal a few scenes in the tongue-in-cheek feature-film version of Starsky and Hutch.