Carmen Electra - Details

Biography

Carmen ElectraWith an impressive body of work that encompasses television, film, comedy and theatre, Carmen Electra has quickly emerged as one of Hollywood’s most versatile personalities.
Carmen Electra has joined the cast of SCI FI Channel's hit animated series “Tripping the Rift”. The second 13-episode season of the humorously risqué half-hour series is slated to debut in July 2005.
Carmen was also seen on the NBC’s hit sitcom “Joey,” WB’s one-hour drama “Summerland” produced by Spelling Television and ABC’s comedy, “Hope and Faith.” She has also been a host on Bravo’s reality competition “Manhunt: The Search for America’s Most Gorgeous Male Model.”
Carmen will be seen in the indie film “Getting Played” for writer-director David Silberg. The film also stars Vivica A. Fox, Bill Bellamy and Stacey Dash. She is also in “Dirty Love”, also starring Jenny McCarthy. “Dirty Love” will be premiered in Sundance 2005. Carmen is also working on the indie film “Searching for Bobby De Niro,” a film about an actor who is tired of being cast as a mobster. Directed by Paul Borghese, the film also stars Tyson Beckford, Steve Buscemi and Vincent Pastore.
Carmen was last seen in the seven-part MTV series “‘Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave” which documented the lives of Carmen and Dave Navarro during the months leading up to their wedding and culminating with the wedding ceremony.
In 2004, Carmen released a DVD series about the new fitness craze, “Aerobic Striptease.” Carmen periodically appears as a part of “Pussycat Dolls Live,” a version of the show “The Pussycat Dolls” which launched in May 2002 at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip in LA. “The Pussycat Dolls” are a contemporary, burlesque cabaret act that was founded as an opening act for Johnny Depp’s Los Angeles club, The Viper Room.
Juggling effortlessly between the big and small screen, Carmen co-hosted the MTV game show “Singled Out” with Chris Hardwick and then hosted her on show on the MTV Network “Carmen Electra’s Hyper Mix” in Florida. Carmen was a series regular on “Hyperion Bay” as well as “Baywatch.” She has guest starred on a variety of prime-time comedies including “Mad TV,” “All That,” “Just Shoot Me,” “Two Guys and A Girl,” Comedy Central’s “Viva Variety” “Off-Centre” and “Baywatch Nights.”
Carmen was seen in the Warner Brothers film “Starsky and Hutch” opposite Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Amy Smart for director Todd Phillips. Additionally, she was in the Dimension comedy, “My Bosses’ Daughter,” with Ashton Kutcher and Molly Shannon. Other film credits include “Sol Goode” the indie film “Perfume,” which made its debut at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, “Scary Movie,” “Get Over it,” and “The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human,” and Nickelodeon’s “Good Burger.”
A native of the mid-west, Carmen grew up near Cincinnati, Ohio, and got her first break when a scout for ‘Prince’ spotted her dancing and asked her to come and audition for “Prince” for his new video and tour. She released a self-titled debut album for Prince’s Paisley Park label in 1992 and produced a top 20 hit on dance charts with “Get on Up.”
Carmen currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, rock guitarist Dave Navarro.

Events

  • 20th April 1972 - Birth