Tara Subkoff

Early life Subkoff was born December 10, 1972 in Westport, Connecticut. She and her younger brother, Daniel, grew up in Westport in what she described as a "bohemian" family. She was raised in the Roman Catholic faith; one of her aunts was a nun.

Subkoff attended boarding school at the Williston Northampton School in Massachusetts. After graduating, she relocated to Los Angeles in 1991, where she enrolled in the Otis College of Art and Design, She subsequently began taking acting classes alongside Angelina Jolie and Keanu Reeves. and the comedy Lover Girl (1997), co-starring Kristy Swanson. She had minor parts in As Good as It Gets (1997), Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco (1998), and an uncredited appearance in the 1999 teen sex comedy American Pie. She also appeared in a supporting role in Tarsem Singh's directorial debut The Cell (2000), a science fiction horror film in which she played a captive victim of a serial killer (Vincent D'Onofrio) pursued by two detectives (played by Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn).

2001–2011: Imitation of Christ In 2000, Subkoff shifted from acting and began working on a conceptual art project called Imitation of Christ with designer Matt Damhave, enlisting Chloë Sevigny as the project's creative director. Every piece of clothing in the line was sewn by hand and recycled from vintage, thrift and Goodwill shops. Subkoff created pieces of wearable art with fashion shows which garnered her a cult following. Models who wore the pieces for runway shows included actress Scarlett Johansson. Reflecting on the line, Subkoff said: “We were talking about waste, throwing things away, and taking something that's old and making it new again, putting the human hand back into a world that reeks of manufacturing. It felt very appropriate to do that in 2000." In 2003, she also collaborated with Bernhard Willhelm on a fashion collection inspired and authorized by Roberto Capucci.

After Subkoff and Damhave parted ways, she continued to design pieces for the line through 2006. She also conceptualized a performance piece in a group show curated by Dimitri Antonitsis in Hydra, Greece.

She exhibited a three hour-long installation at the Bortolami Gallery in New York City during the 2012 New York Fashion Week titled "This is Not a Fashion Show," which featured a girl's choir in leotards performing “Carol of the Bells” (intimated as a "slight to Yuletide consumerism") and "performers aging from 8 to 70 pruned and posing in front of antique mirrors lining the gallery walls."

In 2013, she collaborated with Milla Jovovich on a filmed installation in Venice, Italy titled Future/Perfect, which had Jovovich enclosed in a glass house, surrounded by boxes with consumer logos, artwork, and clothing. Though working predominantly in art, Subkoff also had small roles in several films, including Tanner Hall (2009), How Do You Know, and the horror film Abandoned (2010), with Brittany Murphy. The film received mixed reviews from critics. The following year, she revived the Imitation of Christ project, holding a show at Garvanza Park in Los Angeles. In the spring of 2023, she exhibited an interactive multimedia performance featuring various artists, titled "‘WHAT IS COMING AND WHAT IS GOING", in Los Angeles.

Personal life Subkoff has been romantically linked to Wes Anderson, Anton Newcombe, and was formerly engaged to director Tom Hooper. The couple gave birth to a daughter, Grace, in 2016, before divorcing the same year. where she bought a three-story house designed by architect Saul Harris Brown in the Silver Lake neighborhood for $2.25 million in 2021.

In 2009, Subkoff was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a benign brain tumor that required her to undergo a translabrynthine craniotomy in September 2009. Her symptoms, which included chronic headaches, bouts of dizziness, and unilateral hearing loss, had originally been diagnosed in 2003 as stemming from TMJ. At the time of the tumor diagnosis, Subkoff had mainly been working as a freelance artist, and as a result, her health insurance policy through the Screen Actors Guild had lapsed.

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As director or producer Year Film Role Notes 2010 Associate producer 2013 Future/Perfect Director Short film 2015 #Horror Director, writer, producer, production designer