Patricia Kara

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name = Patricia Kara
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birthplace = Chicago, Illinois
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website = Patricia Kara (Greek: Panayota Karamouzis) (born February 25,1972 in Chicago, Illinois) is a model, actress, and TV personality.

She began her career in Chicago, before moving to Miami, Florida, New York City, and finally, her current home in Los Angeles, California. Throughout her career, she's done segments for the TV Guide Channel's coverage of the Golden Globes, the Catherine Zeta-Jones benefit for the Motion Picture and Television Fund, and the E! Network's "Wild On!" series (the Kentucky Derby episode). She was also a Spring Break VJ in Lake Havasu and Panama City Beach. She's also done Three to Tango, the NPPL Super 7 World Series Paintball Tournaments on PBTV, segments for TVG, and OLN's Wakeboarding Power Hour.

She also appeared in television commercials for Coors Light, Old Navy, Bally's Fitness, Kohl's, Ericsson mobile phones, and most recently in spots for V8 and Edison Power. She made countless TV appearances on TV shows such as "MADtv", "Las Vegas", "All of Us", "Passions", and "Beverly Hills, 90210".

Kara's modeling career includes print advertisements for AT&T, FedEx, Venus Swimwear, Body Wrappers, Disney, Suave, Swiffer, 24 Hour Fitness, Mitsubishi Motors, Lexus, NesQuik, Reebok, and Snickers.

She also graced the pages of such magazines as "Stuff", "Maxim", "Forbes Magazine", "Sports Illustrated", "Cosmopolitan", "Glamour", "Redbook", "Shape", "Fitness", "Bride", "Day Spa", "Women's Fitness", "Muscle & Fitness", "Fitness Rx", "Let's Live", "Endless Vacation", and the cover of Brad Schoenfeld's book "Sculpting Her Body Perfect".

In 2005, she was chosen to be a model on NBC's game show, "Deal or No Deal", and holds case #9. She also substituted at 4, 5, and 10.

Kara is one of only two of the show's many models hired for the daytime version of "Deal or No Deal", premiering in September 2008. The other is Tameka Jacobs.

Trivia

*Kara had guest starred in a 2000 episode of "MADtv", in which she starred in a music video parody, playing the girl in a sketch called "Girl, Why Can't You Love Me?". The parody featured the boy band 98 Degrees (who were guest stars on the episode) and opera singers The Three Tenors (impersonated by Will Sasso, Alex Borstein, and Michael McDonald).

External links

* [http://www.patriciakara.com/ Patricia Kara - Official website]
* [http://www.nbc.com/Deal_or_No_Deal/models/patricia.shtml Patricia's NBC Bio]
* [http://www.dailyfrappe.com/features/interviews/tabid/58/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2687/Patricia-Kara.aspx Patricia Kara - Interview]