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Tara Fitzgerald (born September 18, 1967 in Sussex) is an English actress most widely known for her film roles in Sirens (opposite Hugh Grant) and the 1996 film Brassed Off.

She has had numerous roles on British television, including Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Camomile Lawn, The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew, and beginning in 2007, Waking the Dead. In her early television appearances in particular, she gained a reputation for appearing nude or semi-nude.

Her stage roles have included Blanche Dubois in an Bristol Old Vic 2000 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and Ophelia (opposite Ralph Fiennes) in a 1995 production of Hamlet; for the latter she won a New York Drama Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress Award.

She acted in academy award nominated Czech movie Dark Blue World.

She was paired with Grant again in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, and also had major roles in New World Disorder and the film adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle.

Her nude appearances in Sirens prompted a listing on the first FHM list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World.

• Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Freeport, in the Bahamas.
• Her mother Sarah Fitzgerald is Irish and her father, Michael Callaby, was English.
• Her grandfather, David Fitzgerald, was a well-established lawyer.
• Her great-aunt is Geraldine Fitzgerald.
• Her sister Arabella was born in the Bahamas in 1968, but the family returned to London when Tara was 3.
• Her mother and father separated when she was four years old, and along with her mother and sister, Tara moved in with her Uncle Oliver and Aunt Caroline in a basement flat off the Old Brompton Road in Kensington.
• Her mother married the Irish actor Norman Rodway when Tara was six, and the birth of her half sister, Bianca, followed shortly thereafter.
• She was mugged at knifepoint a week after her West End debut in Our Song opposite Peter O'Toole.
• She married John Sharian, her co-star in A Streetcar Named Desire, in 2001, but they separated in May, 2003.

• Tara Fitzgerald at the Internet Movie Database
• Blog entry containing links about the play And Then There Were None, in which Tara played Vera Claythorne
• Tara Fitzgerald Page at JSR Pages
• BBC Drama Faces - Tara Fitzgerald