Biography of Taryn ManningTaryn Manning (born November 6, 1978) is an American actress, fashion designer and singer/songwriter. She is the vocalist for Boomkat, a band she is in with her older brother Kellin Manning.
Manning was born in Falls Church, Virginia. Her parents divorced in 1981, and her mother, Sharyn, worked as a secretary and waitress in order to support Taryn and her older brother Kellin. Her father, Bill Manning, a musician and hotel manager, was the cousin of Archie Manning. When she was 14, her troubled father committed suicide. "My dad was a big drinker and he was cheating", Taryn has said. Her childhood in a trailer park was tough but happy.
Taryn grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where her mother moved to after her divorce, and later in Los Alamitos, California, where she attended Orange County High School of the Arts. Manning started dancing at age twelve. She's also a champion dancer, rollerskater, and has a third degree green belt in karate, having been named a State Champion in Karate in Arizona.
Manning began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in small roles in several film and television productions, including episodes of The Practice, Get Real, Boston Public, NYPD Blue and Popular. She also auditioned for the American version of Popstars, which aired in early 2001 on The WB.
Her first role in a major motion picture was in the Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez romantic-comedy crazy/beautiful in which she played the best friend of Dunst's character. crazy/beautiful was followed shortly by a prominent role in the 2002 feature film, Crossroads, where she played one of two best friends of pop star Britney Spears. Her subsequent film roles included supporting parts in White Oleander, 8 Mile, A Lot Like Love and the historical epic Cold Mountain.
In 2005 she appeared in the drama film Hustle & Flow, opposite Terrence Howard, playing a troubled prostitute in Memphis, Tennessee. The film received critical acclaim and was generally considered a success. Manning was nominated in Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards in category Best Breakthrough Performance for: Hustle & Flow.
Her next film was Weirdsville, a comedy co-starring Scott Speedman and Wes Bentley. In 2007, she played Ivy Chitty on the short-lived but critically acclaimed Fox television series Drive, which was a drama about various people competing in an illegal cross-country road race. In a comedy film After Sex Manning played the supporting role of Alanna. After Sex is an edgy relationship comedy that uses sex as a background to examine intimacy and vulnerability.
Manning is also co-starring in Jack and Jill vs. the World with actor Freddie Prinze Jr. The film tells about a cynical guy falls for a girl with a joie de vivre and a secret, a cultural revolution ensues. Manning stars in 2008 film "Shifter" with Bai Ling and singer Samantha Mumba.
In 2003, Manning and her brother Kellin formed the band Boomkat. Their debut album, Boomkatalog.One, was released on March 18, 2003. The album included 14 tracks. Boomkat released two singles "The Wreckoning" and "What U Do 2 Me". The first single, "The Wreckoning", hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Boomkat's music can also be heard in at least two other films: "The Wreckoning" in The Italian Job and "Now Understand This" in The Hot Chick. In an interview in October 2005's issue of Nylon magazine, Taryn mentioned that Boomkat would be back eventually, and that she is writing songs for the new album once they find another record label. DreamWorks Records was Boomkat's record label from 2002 to 2004. Taryn told: "They dropped us, and it hurt. They didn't like the fact that I was an actress, too."
In 2002 she sang a rendition of "I'll Take You There" with Tweet in several Gap commercials directed by Peter Lindbergh. Boomkat songs have also been included on the soundtracks to 8 Mile and Crossroads, two films Taryn also co-starred in.
Taryn recorded new songs for an anticipated upcoming solo album, tentatively titled A Million Trillion Stars. Recently on her MySpace page, she has stated it will be up on iTunes very soon. In late 2007 it was announced that the project is not going to be a solo album, but a new Boomkat record.
She has a clothing line called Born Uniqorn with best friend Tara Jane.
In 2007, Manning appeared alongside other celebrities and regular people in the music video for Rockstar by Nickelback.
On September 22, 2005, Manning discussed her experience as one of 140 passengers on JetBlue Airways Flight 292, which performed an emergency landing with faulty landing gear. Speaking as a guest on Craig Ferguson's late night talk show, she explained, "When we saw our plane on TV as 'breaking news'... it was the most surreal, out of body experience I ever had... I just composed a little something so that if anything happened [family members] would know that our last goodbye wasn't on the phone... A lot of the women of course were crying... There was a gentleman across the way who was writing in his journal and crying, and seeing that isn't easy". Upon landing safely, she described the atmosphere of jubilant cheering and applause inside the airplane, "It sounded like the RCA Dome in there" (where her cousin Peyton Manning plays football with the Indianapolis Colts). Landing gear failures, especially a known nose gear condition, in which the crew is prepared, is rarely serious to the passenger and crews safety, but aircraft damage can be extensive.
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