Birth name Tara Leigh Patrick Height 5' 3" (1.60 m) Date of birth 20 April 1972 Birth location Sharonville, Ohio, USA   Carmen Electra (born April 20, 1972) is an American model, television personality, actress and singer.

Electra was born Tara Leigh Patrick in Sharonville, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, to an Irish father and a German and Native American (Cherokee) mother. She attended Princeton High School in Sharonville for four years and also attended, very briefly, Walnut Hills High School. After moving to California, she met singer Prince (a Minneapolis native), who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with Paisley Park Records, Prince's company, marking the start of a short-lived singing career with a girl rap group.

In 1995, Electra started appearing in various television programs. Then, in May of 1996 she appeared in Playboy magazine. This led to an increasing role as a television personality on various shows, including regular roles on Baywatch and MTV's Singled Out. She made a notable appearance on Howard Stern's television show in which she was strapped to a chair and tickled to the point she was laughing hysterically, stating afterward that she has the "most ticklish feet ever," and another where Stern has her riding on a Sybian.

Electra has appeared in several films, such as Good Burger (1997), The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999), the horror spoof Scary Movie (2000) and one of its sequels, Scary Movie 4 (2006), and the remake of the 1970s TV show Starsky & Hutch (2004). She has also made cameo appearances as herself in The Simpsons episode The Frying Game and the 2006 comedy American Dreamz. She also regularly performed with the exotic dance troupe The Pussycat Dolls. Electra also created the highly successful Carmen Electra Aerobic Striptease series of DVDs which combines classic stripping moves with a low impact workout. Her most recent movie appearance is as Eugene Levy's trophy wife in Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

Electra achieved considerable notoriety during her on-again, off-again marriage to basketball star Dennis Rodman from 1998 to 1999. The wedding to Rodman took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Later, she had a brief affair with Tommy Lee, the ex-husband of Pamela Anderson. Borrowing another page from fellow Baywatch companion Anderson's publicity playbook, Electra was quoted in August 2004 that she was thinking of having her breast implants removed.

On November 22, 2003, Electra married musician Dave Navarro, former lead guitarist for the rock band Jane's Addiction. The couple documented their courtship and marriage on an MTV reality show in 2004 called Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen + Dave.

In 2006, Electra revealed she had a lesbian little girl crush on Joan Jett starting when she was eight years old. She remembers especially lusting after Jett watching the music video of "Do You Wanna Touch Me" where Jett opens a trenchcoat to reveal her bikini clad body.

The same year she also admited she lusts after supermodel Kate Moss.

On July 17, 2006, she and Navarro announced their separation.