Tara Reid was always on the verge. She was on Saved By the Bell - but, she was on the second class, just missing the Elizabeth Berkley and Tiffani Amber-Theissen days. She was in the hit horror film Urban Legends - but she got killed off and Rebecca Gayheart garnered the accolades. She was in the runaway success Cruel Intentions - as one of Ryan Phillippe's first victims. But, finally, in 1999 she grabbed the acclaim she deserves in a little film called American Pie.

Tara was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey on November 8, 1975. She jumped into the acting world quite early, at six, when she appeared on a children's game show called Child's Play. Her cute smile grabbed her a number of commercial roles, including Jell-O, McDonald's, and Crayola.

Tara didn't stop there, and decided to make acting a career goal. She attended the highly prestigious Professional Children's School in New York City. Her classmates included Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jerry O'Connell, Macualay Culkin, and Ben Taylor. A number of good, but not good enough, roles followed, most notably the Saved By the Bell, Urban Legends, and Cruel Intention roles. But, Tara also had a role

a film called Girl. The independent film went absolutely nowhere at the box office, but Tara's performance was incredible - as was her costar Dominique