Tarita Virtue
Encyclopedia
Tarita Virtue is an Trinidadian
-American
private detective
/investigator
and model.
The origins of her name stems from her premature birth during Carnival, a regional celebration in the Caribbean during the Northern Hemisphere's early spring or late winter. Since the offices during that time usually do not run at full capacity, her parents hastily came up with a name, naming her after the Tahitian wife of Marlon Brando
, Tarita Teriipia
, after reading a magazine article about the couple.
("the PI to the Stars") became public. She has since changed career paths and is now a successful actress and model.
Before becoming an actress & model, Tarita was a Private Investigator
at The Pellicano Investigative Agency in Los Angeles, California
.
Tarita is Jewish and studies Kabbalah
.
She has been a vegetarian for over 17 years.
During college, Tarita attended summer programs at Harvard University
, Florida Atlantic University
and the University of Miami
.
She majored in Sociology
at Rollins College
in Winter Park, FL.
Tarita was a premature baby (arriving 2 months early and only weighing 4 lbs. 4 ounces).
Tarita attended law school at The University of Florida
, in Gainesville, FL.
Ever the animal lover and animal rights advocate, Tarita owns or has owned, several dogs, cats, a potbellied pig, parrots, chinchillas, a bearded dragon, duck
, fish
and who knows what else by the time you are reading this.
Field Reporter (Options House) - Viacommunity Day I (Paramount Pictures
& Viacom
)
Rosasen
Clothing - Model
Segment Reporter (School for the Blind) - Viacommunity Day II (Paramount Pictures
& Viacom
)
PSA
- LA County Fire Department (C.E.R.T. Program Volunteer)
Music video: The Strays - "Life Support"
Music video: Story Of The Year - "Anthem of Our Dying Day"
Music video: Mexiclan - "Como Le Hago"
Print Work for Spider-Man
3 (2007).
Public service announcement for The ONE Campaign
[www.one.org] (2006)
Movie Theatre Promo for The Pink Panther
- played a young mother in the front row. (2006)
Music video: (Played Paula Abdul
) Patrick Hall
- "One for the Ages"
"New York Daily News" (USA) 6 February 2006, pg. Front Page, "Exciting testimony on tap?"
"Maxim Magazine" (USA) April 2005, pg. 112-115, by: Judy Dutton, "To Cheat or Not To Cheat: You Want to, you'd love to, but should you? Check out these tales of guys who did, and proceed with extreme caution."
"Arizona Daily Star" (USA) 3 March 2005, pg. 1, by: Phil Villarreal, "Be Cool - A to Z"
"Vanity Fair" (USA) 1 March 2004, Iss. 523, pg. 222-237, by: Howard Blum & John Connolly, "The Pellicano Brief"
Pictorials:
"Maxim Magazine" (USA) April 2005, pg. 115, by: Tarita Virtue, "Field Test: Love Stinks (Our reporter Tarita tests the resolve of 10 married men. Oops!"
"Maxim Magazine" (USA) 1 October 2003, Vol. 2003, Iss. 70, pg. 34, by: Charlie Langella, "Sexiest Private Investigator in America"
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
-American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
private detective
Private investigator
A private investigator , private detective or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private detectives/investigators often work for attorneys in civil cases. Many work for insurance companies to investigate suspicious claims...
/investigator
Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...
and model.
Childhood
Tarita Virtue was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on February 16th, 1970, to a racially and ethnically mixed Trinidadian mother and Jamaican father, but was raised in Boca Raton, FloridaBoca Raton, Florida
Boca Raton is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, incorporated in May 1925. In the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,764; the 2006 population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 86,396. However, the majority of the people under the postal address of Boca Raton, about...
The origins of her name stems from her premature birth during Carnival, a regional celebration in the Caribbean during the Northern Hemisphere's early spring or late winter. Since the offices during that time usually do not run at full capacity, her parents hastily came up with a name, naming her after the Tahitian wife of Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St...
, Tarita Teriipia
Tarita Teriipia
Tarita Teriipaia is a former actress of French Polynesian and Chinese descent most famous for being the wife of Marlon Brando...
, after reading a magazine article about the couple.
Awards, Career and Achievements
Tarita was selected as "The Sexiest Private Investigator in America" by Maxim Magazine after her work with Anthony PellicanoAnthony Pellicano
Anthony Pellicano is a former high-profile Los Angeles private investigator who recently served a sentence of three and a half years in federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, firearms and homemade grenades, and who was arrested on February 4, 2006, on unlawful wiretapping and...
("the PI to the Stars") became public. She has since changed career paths and is now a successful actress and model.
Mixed Ethnicity
According to her biography, the most common question that she is asked is "What are you?" She usually responds with the answer of "a little bit of everything."Trivia
She was both the "Homecoming Queen" and "Student Government President" at Spanish River High School in Boca Raton, Florida.Before becoming an actress & model, Tarita was a Private Investigator
Private investigator
A private investigator , private detective or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private detectives/investigators often work for attorneys in civil cases. Many work for insurance companies to investigate suspicious claims...
at The Pellicano Investigative Agency in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
.
Tarita is Jewish and studies Kabbalah
Kabbalah
Kabbalah/Kabala is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the esoteric aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It was systematized in 11th-13th century Hachmei Provence and Spain, and again after the Expulsion from Spain, in 16th century Ottoman Palestine...
.
She has been a vegetarian for over 17 years.
During college, Tarita attended summer programs at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University, also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a public, coeducational, research university located in , United States. The university has six satellite campuses located in the Florida cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. Lucie, and in Fort...
and the University of Miami
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
.
She majored in Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
at Rollins College
Rollins College
Rollins College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Winter Park, Florida , along the shores of Lake Virginia....
in Winter Park, FL.
Tarita was a premature baby (arriving 2 months early and only weighing 4 lbs. 4 ounces).
Tarita attended law school at The University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
, in Gainesville, FL.
Ever the animal lover and animal rights advocate, Tarita owns or has owned, several dogs, cats, a potbellied pig, parrots, chinchillas, a bearded dragon, duck
Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the Anatidae family of birds, which also includes swans and geese. The ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the Anatidae family; they do not represent a monophyletic group but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered...
, fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
and who knows what else by the time you are reading this.
Other works by Tarita Virtue
2005 Calendar Model - Predator RecordsField Reporter (Options House) - Viacommunity Day I (Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
& Viacom
Viacom
Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...
)
Rosasen
Rosasen
Rosasen was a fashion line of golf-inspired clothing for men and women. The company, founded by Chris Rosaasen and David Kasischke in 1999, teamed up with street-wear designer Greg Lucci to design a line of clothing that can be worn as active golf-wear as well as streetwear...
Clothing - Model
Segment Reporter (School for the Blind) - Viacommunity Day II (Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
& Viacom
Viacom
Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...
)
PSA
PSA
PSA may refer to:* PSA International , world's second largest port operator* PSA Peugeot Citroën, French vehicle manufacturer...
- LA County Fire Department (C.E.R.T. Program Volunteer)
Music video: The Strays - "Life Support"
Music video: Story Of The Year - "Anthem of Our Dying Day"
Music video: Mexiclan - "Como Le Hago"
Print Work for Spider-Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
3 (2007).
Public service announcement for The ONE Campaign
ONE Campaign
The ONE Campaign is an international, nonpartisan, non-profit organization which aims to increase government funding for and effectiveness of international aid programs....
[www.one.org] (2006)
Movie Theatre Promo for The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bungling French police detective Jacques Clouseau that began in 1963 with the release of the film of the same name. The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers...
- played a young mother in the front row. (2006)
Music video: (Played Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R&B hits...
) Patrick Hall
Patrick Hall
Patrick Hall is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Bedford from 1997 to 2010.-Early life:...
- "One for the Ages"
Publicity
Articles:"New York Daily News" (USA) 6 February 2006, pg. Front Page, "Exciting testimony on tap?"
"Maxim Magazine" (USA) April 2005, pg. 112-115, by: Judy Dutton, "To Cheat or Not To Cheat: You Want to, you'd love to, but should you? Check out these tales of guys who did, and proceed with extreme caution."
"Arizona Daily Star" (USA) 3 March 2005, pg. 1, by: Phil Villarreal, "Be Cool - A to Z"
"Vanity Fair" (USA) 1 March 2004, Iss. 523, pg. 222-237, by: Howard Blum & John Connolly, "The Pellicano Brief"
Pictorials:
"Maxim Magazine" (USA) April 2005, pg. 115, by: Tarita Virtue, "Field Test: Love Stinks (Our reporter Tarita tests the resolve of 10 married men. Oops!"
"Maxim Magazine" (USA) 1 October 2003, Vol. 2003, Iss. 70, pg. 34, by: Charlie Langella, "Sexiest Private Investigator in America"