Tara Summers (born 19 December 1979) is an English actress.
Summers was educated at
Heathfield St Mary's School
Heathfield School is a girls' independent boarding and day school in Ascot, Berkshire, England. In 2006, the school absorbed St Mary's School, Wantage and was briefly named Heathfield St Mary's School but reverted to Heathfield School in 2009 to ...
, in Berkshire. She later attended
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, where she graduated with a
B.A.
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
in history in 2001. Her grandmother was
Fritzi Gordon
Fritzi Gordon (1905 or 1916 – 8 February 1992) was an Austrian-born British bridge player, half of the most famous and tempestuous female partnership in the game's history. Following her long-time partner Rixi Markus, she was the second woman t ...
, an Austrian-born
WBF World Grand Master bridge player with four world titles.
Summers has written and starred in a one-woman theatrical show, ''Gypsy of Chelsea''. The play is the story of her childhood, charting her mother's turbulent journey from
cocaine
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addiction to recovery.
She has appeared in several films, including ''
Factory Girl'' in 2006. In 2007 and 2008, Summers starred on TV as
Katie Lloyd on ''
Boston Legal
''Boston Legal'' is an American legal drama and comedy drama television series created by former lawyer and Boston native David E. Kelley, produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3, 2004, t ...
''.
Summers was the director in the video for
Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol are a Northern Irish–Scottish Rock music, rock band formed in 1994 in Dundee, Scotland. They consist of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (musician), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, ...
's 2011 single "
Called Out in the Dark
"Called Out in the Dark" is a song by Scottish-Northern Irish rock band Snow Patrol. The track was released as the first single from the band's sixth studio album '' Fallen Empires'' on 2 September 2011. It was made available both independently a ...
".
"Video for Snow Patrol's Called Out In The Dark"
/ref> She also appeared in the first half of the first season of The CW
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's mystery drama series '' Ringer''. In 2014, she appeared as Leanne Zander in the Fox
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Twelve sp ...
dramedy
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series ''Rake
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* Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct
* Rake (theatre), the artificial slope of a theatre stage
Science and technology
* Rake receiver, a radio receiver
* Rake (geology), the angle between a feature on a ...
''.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1979 births
Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Brown University alumni
Living people
Actresses from London
People educated at Heathfield School, Ascot
English stage actresses
English film actresses
English Jews
English people of Jewish descent
Jewish English actresses
Jewish women writers
English television actresses
21st-century English actresses