Carmen Electra (born April 20, 1972) is an American model, television personality, actress and singer, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, as Tara Leigh Patrick to a family of Irish, German, and Native American ( Cherokee ) descent.  She attended Princeton High School for four years in Sharonville, a suburb of Cincinnati. She is married to guitarist Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers  fame.

Before moving to Los Angeles (1991) she lived in Minneapolis, MN and worked for Target Corporation. 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 but not very successful singing career.

In 1995, Electra started appearing in various television programs. Carmen Electra Playboy pictures in May of 1996 led to an increasing role as a television personality on various shows, including regular roles on Baywatch and MTV’s Singled Out. This also unleashed Carmen Electra’s popularity with her trademark sexy Carmen Electra posters.

Electra has appeared in several films, such as Good Burger (1997), The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1994), the horror spoof Scary Movie (2000), and the remake of the 1970s TV show Starsky & Hutch (2004). She also regularly performed with the exotic dance troupe The Pussycat Dolls. Her most recent movie appearance is as Eugene Levy’s trophy wife in Cheaper by the Dozen 2 .

Sexy Electra achieved considerable notoriety during her on-again, off-again marriage to basketball star Dennis Rodman  from 1998 to 1999. Later, she allegedly had an affair with Tommy Lee , the ex-husband of Pamela Anderson. Electra's current husband, musician Dave Navarro, was formerly the lead guitarist of the rock band The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The couple documented their courtship and marriage on an MTV reality show in 2004 entitled Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave.

In 2005, she joined the voice cast of the Si-fi channel's animated series Tripping the Rift, replacing Gina Gershon as the voice of the sex android "Six".  There are rumors that the show may turn into a feature film in the coming year.