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."

Fashion career[link]

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. While the clothing was worn together with the shoes, the shoe collections were not branded as part of the Imitation of Christ clothing line. 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".^[2] Artnet magazine also mused whether this show was an "Imitation of Beecroft", referring to the photography work of Vanessa Beecroft. ^[3]

Subkoff left Imitation of Christ in 2006. In 2010, she returned to fashion under the label Imitation.^[4] She is one of the few designers showcased in 2011 New York Fashion Week show that did not use any minority models, although that was for her Imitation line.^[5] In 2011 Tara Subkoff relaunced the Imitation of Christ line, and the IOC showing in September of that year during New York Fashion Week showed both white and minority models. ^{[6] [7]}

Films[link]

• 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
• Abandoned (2010 film) (2010)- Nurse Anna^[8]

Television[link]

• 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[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tara Subkoff

• Tara Subkoff at the Internet Movie Database