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tarynsouthern

Los angeles, CA

About Me

Joined: May 19, 2009
Last signed in: January 17, 2011

As a writer, producer, actress, and self-professed ‘web geek,’ Taryn’s online videos have received more than 100 million hits and earned her both a Spike TV Guy’s Choice Award and a Streamy Best Actress nomination. On TV, she is currently playing the recurring role of Allison the CBS series Rules of Engagement, starring David Spade, which airs Monday nights at 8:30pm EST/PST; 7:30pm CT. Her online credits include: a starring role in Warner Brothers first original series, Sorority Forever, a daily show on Cosmopolitan.com, Sony Crackle’s Woke Up Dead, a weekly sketch comedy show on Heavy.com, and featured sketches and series with Funny or Die, YouTube’s The Station, TVGuide.com, Reveille, MSN, MySpace, Atom.com, and more. In 2010, Taryn co-created ‘Touch a Tit, Save a Tit,’ a viral breast cancer campaign that starred Minka Kelly, Emily Deschanel, Alyson Hannigan, Jaime King, and Kat McPhee. In addition to her work online, she is the first person to develop and sell two television shows based on web concepts. In 2006, she executive produced and starred in Project MyWorld, a travel series on DirecTV, and in 2009, she sold her web series Private High Musical, to MTV to develop as a half-hour musical comedy pilot with veteran Family Guy/American Dad producer David Zuckerman. In the feature world, you can see Taryn in Comedy Central’s Senior Skip Day and Deep In The Valley (on Netflix and DVD) with Scott Caan and Denise Richards. She recently completed supporting roles in the Sony film Battle: Los Angeles, slated to release in March 2011 (starring Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez), the indie drama Pound of Flesh alongside Malcom McDowell, Dewana’s Bridal alongside Jaime King, Selma Blair, and Jamie Lynn Sigler, and the indie comedy The Frankenstein Brothers alongside Scott Patterson (NBC’s THE EVENT) and Zelda Williams. Currently, Taryn is busy editing The Co-Op, a film that she wrote, produced, and starred in. Because of her web presence, Taryn has served as a regular host for G4′s Attack of the Show and TVGuide’s Hollywood 411, as well as The Golden Globes Post Show with Nick Cannon on NBC, The Young Hollywood Awards for Showtime, and The Grammys for CBS. She has hosted a handful of pilots for MTV, and continues to work with studios like New Line, Warner Brothers, and Disney, hosting their first ever live premieres (i.e. Sex and the City 2, Avatar, Twilight, Get Him To the Greek, etc) for various online partners such as UStream, LiveStream, Facebook, and MySpace. In 2008, Taryn won a Spike TV Guy’s Choice Award and made CNN’s Most Influential Viral Videos of the Year list for her online videos. She has also been featured in USA Today, Maxim, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, People, Christian Science Monitor, Script Magazine, and been a guest on shows like CNN, Fox and Friends, Red Eye, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Insider, and Entertainment Tonight.

Stats

Total views (all shows): 39,675
Total viewer hours (all shows):
57 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes
Total unique views: 6,444