17 Facts About Tara Subkoff

Tara Lyn Subkoff was born on December 10,1972 and is an American actress, conceptual artist, director, and fashion designer.

Tara Subkoff made her film debut in the thriller When the Bough Breaks opposite Martin Sheen, and later had supporting roles in As Good as It Gets, The Last Days of Disco, The Cell, and The Notorious Bettie Page.

Tara Subkoff's father was an antiques dealer who owned an antique store on 13th Street in Manhattan, and her mother was a schoolteacher in East Harlem.

Tara Subkoff was raised in the Roman Catholic faith; one of her aunts was a nun.

Tara Subkoff attended boarding school at the Williston Northampton School in Massachusetts.

Tara Subkoff subsequently began taking acting classes alongside Angelina Jolie and Keanu Reeves.

Tara Subkoff made her debut as an actress on television, appearing in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman in 1994, followed by her feature film debut, a lead role in the 1994 crime thriller When the Bough Breaks, opposite Martin Sheen and Ron Perlman.

Tara Subkoff appeared in a supporting role in Tarsem Singh's directorial debut The Cell, a science fiction horror film in which she played a captive victim of a serial killer pursued by two detectives.

In 2000, Tara Subkoff shifted from acting and began working on a conceptual art project called Imitation of Christ with designer Matt Damhave, enlisting Chloe Sevigny as the project's creative director.

Tara Subkoff created pieces of wearable art with fashion shows which garnered her a cult following.

That same year, Tara Subkoff created four capsule collections for the women's fashion brand Bebe.

The collections were successful, selling out within days, but Tara Subkoff later reflected that she was dissatisfied with the collection, saying: "I missed the larger ideas," she said.

Tara Subkoff conceptualized a performance piece in a group show curated by Dimitri Antonitsis in Hydra, Greece.

In November 2019, Tara Subkoff exhibited a multimedia art installation at the Museum of Modern Art.

Tara Subkoff has been romantically linked to Wes Anderson, Anton Newcombe, and was formerly engaged to director Tom Hooper.

In 2009, Tara Subkoff was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a benign brain tumor that required her to undergo a translabrynthine craniotomy in September 2009.

At the time of the tumor diagnosis, Tara Subkoff had mainly been working as a freelance artist, and as a result, her health insurance policy through the Screen Actors Guild had lapsed.