Tara Lyn Subkoff (born December 10, 1972)[2][3][4] is an American actress, conceptual artist, director, and fashion designer.

Raised in Connecticut, Subkoff relocated to Los Angeles in 1991, enrolling at the Otis College of Art and Design before pursuing an acting career.

She made her film debut in the thriller When the Bough Breaks (1994) opposite Martin Sheen, and later had supporting roles in As Good as It Gets (1997), The Last Days of Disco (1998), The Cell (2000), and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005).

In 2000, she shifted her focus from acting to co-found the conceptual art collective Imitation of Christ, a project featuring pieces hand-sewn solely from recycled vintage and thrift store clothing.

She had minor parts in As Good as It Gets (1997), Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco (1998), and an uncredited appearance in the 1999 teen sex comedy American Pie.

[15][16] Reflecting on the line, Subkoff said: “We were talking about waste, throwing things away, and taking something that’s old and making it new again, putting the human hand back into a world that reeks of manufacturing.

She exhibited a three hour-long installation at the Bortolami Gallery in New York City during the 2012 New York Fashion Week titled "This is Not a Fashion Show," which featured a girl's choir in leotards performing “Carol of the Bells” (intimated as a "slight to Yuletide consumerism") and "performers aging from 8 to 70 pruned and posing in front of antique mirrors lining the gallery walls.

[23] In the spring of 2023, she exhibited an interactive multimedia performance featuring various artists, titled "‘WHAT IS COMING AND WHAT IS GOING", in Los Angeles.

[1] Subkoff resides in Los Angeles, California,[26] where she bought a three-story house designed by architect Saul Harris Brown in the Silver Lake neighborhood for $2.25 million in 2021.

[27] In 2009, Subkoff was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, a benign brain tumor that required her to undergo a translabrynthine craniotomy in September 2009.

[28] Her symptoms, which included chronic headaches, bouts of dizziness, and unilateral hearing loss, had originally been diagnosed in 2003 as stemming from TMJ.

[5][21] At the time of the tumor diagnosis, Subkoff had mainly been working as a freelance artist, and as a result, her health insurance policy through the Screen Actors Guild had lapsed.