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Tara Garwood

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Washington, D.C.

Biography from TheMovieDB

Tara Garwood (she/her) is an award-winning filmmaker, and owner of Tarakata Films. She specializes in telling women's stories through the lens of horror. Garwood's background as an actor and former horror theatre Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director informs her work as a director, writer, and producer.  Garwood's short films "Lonely," "The Lake," and "The Strangle of Ivy" have appeared in several festivals, with "The Lake" and "The Strangle of Ivy" receiving awards for independent short, directing, acting, and more. She won the Hayes Horror Workshop competition and is being mentored on her first feature film by the Hayes Brothers, writers of "The Conjuring."  Garwood is also and award-winning actor and voice over artist and has been seen in several Hollywood films, including "The Invasion" with Nicole Kidman, "My One and Only" with Renee Zellweger, and John Waters' "Cecil B. DeMented". She has also worked on many industrials and independent films, including "Women's Studies", a wonderfully campy horror movie in which she plays a homicidal psycho with a feminist agenda.  Tara is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity Association.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

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2014  Uke & Trust Me

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2014  Uke & Trust Me

Director:
2013  The Lake
2014  Uke & Trust Me
????  The Strangle of Ivy

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2013  The Lake
2014  Uke & Trust Me
????  The Strangle of Ivy

Producer:
2013  The Lake
2014  Uke & Trust Me
????  The Strangle of Ivy

Writer:
2013  The Lake
2014  Uke & Trust Me
????  The Strangle of Ivy

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TV Performances

  • 2012  Veep
    White House Staffer

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