BIO

An only child, Tara began acting at nine. She grew up all over the country, from VA and AZ to OK and MI. Tara received her BFA degree in theatre from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts and the London Academy of Theatre, where she also spent a semester studying abroad.

Tara has performed internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been seen in everything from Shakespearean classics to world premieres nationally.  

Tara now lives in Los Angeles where she continues to pursue her passion: in film, television, animation (voice-over) and stage. She's been fortunate to work with an array of wonderful artists in a variety of once-in-a-lifetime productions.

Tara's recently turned to writing and producing; she's produced theatre in NY and LA and started her own independent production company, Monkey Kingdom Productions, with business partner Yuri Lowenthal in Hollywood. Currently in post production on MKP's first feature film, TUMBLING AFTER, she and Lowenthal have collaborated on five feature scripts.

Tara is also a certified Feng Shui consultant through the Shambhalla West Coast Institute and practices yoga weekly. She is currently studying hypnotherapy at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. You are welcome to read her rantings on blogspot.

PRESS & PUBLICITY

BACKSLASH TO BE FIRST CULT HORROR FILM RELEASED UNDER BELOW THE RADAR LABEL - March 2, 2007, ActiveAnime

NEW YORK, NY (March 1, 2007)  Central Park Media announced that the black comedy horror film BACKSLASH is slated to be released under its newly created Below The Radar label this spring. This Kevin Campbell film, features the talents of Tara Platt who is best known for her voiceover work as Temari in Naruto, one of the Cartoon Network's highest-rated anime shows. The DVD hits the streets on May 8, 2007.

PRESS PHOTO: February 2007

Tara Platt and Yuri Lowenthal at the 1st Annual American Anime Awards, where they were presenters of the Mecha Award. 

TARA PLATT COMIC-CON 2006 NARUTO PARTY INTERVIEW - July 21, 2006 IGN.COM by Mark Bozon

Along with the awesome Naruto Preview Party we attended, publisher D3 was kind enought to give IGN a chance to talk directly with voice actors Tara Platt (the voice of Temari) and Yuri Lowenthal (voice of Sasuke) about Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2, as well as the world of voice acting.

TARA PLATT IN INDIE FEATURES, ON NARUTO AND ANIME CONVENTIONS - Feb 28, 2006 Word Press

Having just been seen opposite Scrubs Donald Faison on the half-hour comedy series The Playbook on Spike TV, actress Tara Platt is once again acting on the big screen in two upcoming indie features.  

PRESS PHOTO: December 2005, Wireimage

Tara Platt pictured alongside fellow cast member Yuri Lowenthal at Red Carpet Premiere of Jaime Gomez's IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE (A.K.A PISSED) at the Hollywood Highlands.

TARA PLATT STARRING AS CLARA SCHUMANN AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL - January 15, 2005 PR Web

Slingshot PR is proud to announce that Tara Platt just wrapped indie horror film, “Death's Door” followed by recent co-star spot on "Charmed," and will play Clara Schumann at the Disney Concert Hall in January.

FEMME FATALES MAGAZINE - Nov 2004 Issue;  Volume 13, Nomber 8 (interview/ photos)

That straw-filled monster is on the rampage again in York Entertainment's Scarecrow Gone Wild, and along for the ride is Tara Platt, who plays Lynn, a high-school girl who has a watery meeting with the scarecrow.  "Lynn is great and a bit of a tomboy," describes Platt. "She's one of those girls who wants fun all the time. She's definitely the sport of the girls. If they were the Spice Girs she'd be Sporty Spice." When the soul of a young man harrased by a trio of high school jocks is transferred into a scarecrow, the demonic creature seeks revenge and the bodies start piling up. After a sunbathing session, Lynn goes for a dip in the ocean and doesn't come back. "I have an ever-so-glorious death," Platt says. "I was hoping for a bloodier one, but I'm the one who takes it in the ocean. You think he'd float away or something with all that straw. Filming was very difficult because we were shooting in the ocean and it was really cold. We were in the water for 45 minutes or so and I'm in a little bikini -- because that's what girls wear on the beach. It was cold, cold, cold, and toward the end I was getting a little hypothermic and the lifeguard had to help me get out of the water and heat me up in the trailer with a little hair dryer. It was very cute and they all took care of me."

• "Shakespeare's timeless Juliet (enacted by Tara Platt as a most convincing, love-struck Juliet - truly, 'a beauty too dear for earth,')." -- Joseph N. Feinstein, Beverly Hills Outlook
• "All the performances in the hour-long program were excellent. Tara Platt made a wonderfully vulnerable young Juliet." -- John Farrell, Whittier Daily News
• "Vivid, achingly poignant readings by Platt, which were the finest feature of the evening." -- Truman C. Wang, The Classical Voice