Tara Subkoff

Actor: Tara Subkoff

Occupation: Actor
Active: '90s-2000s
Major Genres: Thriller, Drama
Career Highlights: All over Me, Lover Girl, Teenage Caveman
First Major Screen Credit: All over Me (1996)

Biography

At times resembling a modern day Twiggy, actress/fashion designer Tara Subkoff has little need to follow in the footsteps of yesteryear icons after a series of memorable film roles and a trend-setting career as the co-founder/designer of a flamboyant clothing-line brought both the film and fashion worlds to her well-adorned feet. Following her memorable screen debut as a mentally challenged mute in the 1993 thriller When the Bough Breaks, East Coast-reared Subkoff spent the remainder of the 1990s developing her onscreen career in such efforts as Freeway (1996), All Over Me (1996), and As Good As It Gets (1997) before focusing on her emerging career in fashion. Reluctant to be pigeonholed in either career, Subkoff often blurred the lines between the two with appearances in such high-fashion cinematic exploits as The Last Days of Disco (1997) and The Cell (2000). Teaming with Matt Damhave to transform Salvation Army castoffs into high-priced haute couture, "Imitation of Christ" found the fashionable duo the toast of the town with their cheekily arty creations. With such fashion-icon followers as Chloë Sevigny sporting IOC threads, it wasn't long before numerous wannabes were threading cheap imitations. Though many may find it ironic that an Otis Parsons dropout could find such success in the fashion world, Subkoff's catwalk career continued to flourish as she appeared onscreen in such efforts as controversial Kids director Larry Clark's Teenage Caveman (2001) and the dark psychological thriller Undermind (2002). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Tara Subkoff
Born	December 10, 1972 (1972-12-10) (age 36)
Years active	1993 - present
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Tara Lyn Subkoff (born December 10, 1972) is an American actress and fashion designer from Westport, Connecticut. She has acted in over a dozen movies, most recently 2006's The Notorious Bettie Page.

Subkoff was born in Westport, Connecticut and attended Otis Parsons school for less than a year before dropping out. She appeared in Blondie's 2003 music video for "Good Boys."

1 Imitation of Christ
2 Films
3 Television
4 References
5 External links

Imitation of Christ

Spring 2003 IOC fashion show.

Subkoff and Matthew Damhave were co-founders of the clothing line Imitation Of Christ, which remade old clothes into new works of fashion. They named their fashion line after the 15th century book of the same name by Thomas à Kempis.^[1] Chloë Sevigny was creative director of the line and Scarlett Johansson walked the runway in Subkoff's designs, and she recently collaborated with shoe company Easy Spirit. In reference to the collection's Spring 2003 show, Laird Borelli writing for Vogue magazine's Style.com observed, "Like all IOC events, the spring show, billed as a 'retrospective,' was more about performance art and cultural theory than clothes. On the ground floor, topless models in very abbreviated shorts pranced around while pushing shiny vacuum cleaners (very David LaChapelle meets Vanessa Beecroft)".^[2] Artnet magazine also mused whether this show was an "Imitation of Beecroft."^[3]

Films

When the Bough Breaks (1993) - Jordan Thomas/ Jennifer Lynn Eben
Freeway (1996) - Sharon
True Crime (1996) - Liz McConnell
Black Circle Boys (1997) - Chloe
All Over Me (1997) - Ellen
Lover Girl (1997) - Jake Ferrari/ "Candy"
As Good as It Gets (1997) - Cafe 24 Waitress
The Last Days of Disco (1998) - Holly
Mascara (1999)- Daphne
American Pie (1999) - (uncredited) College Girl
The Cell (2000) - Julia Hickson
Teenage Caveman (2002) - Sarah
Undermind (2003) - Anya
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie (2004) - Mouse
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)

Television

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1994) - Jennifer
Northern Exposure (1994) - Maggie, age 15
Kindred: The Embrace (1996) - Cash's girl
Blondie's "Good Boys" video (2004)

References

^ Imitation of Christ, FashionVue Magazine, February 2008
^ Imitation of Christ Runway Review, Laird Borelli, Style.com, September 17, 2002.
^ Tara Subkoff and Chloe Sevigny, fashion show, Mary Barone, Artnet.com.

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