Traci Bingham

Born: 13/01/1968 (55 yo)
Birth place: Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

Citizenship : USA
Ascendant : Italy
Ethnicity : Native American ancestry

Occupation : Actress , Glamour Model
Active Years: 1991-present

Summary

Traci Bingham is an American actress, model and television personality who is best known for playing Jordan Tate on the television series Baywatch between 1996 and 1998.

Biography

Bingham was born in west Cambridge, Massachusetts to a librarian mother and an aircraft technician father. Her mother is black and her father is of Cherokee Native American and Italian descent.

Career

Music videos

In 1991, she appeared in the video for Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Eight years later, she appeared in the video for I Really Like It by Harlem World featuring Mase and Kelly Price.

Acting on television

Bingham began her career in minor acting roles. Aside from Baywatch, Bingham's appearances include the television series D.R.E.A.M. Team and Beverly Hills, 90210, and the film Demon Knight. She also played minor roles in the popular American sitcoms The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Married with Children.

Reality television

Bingham has appeared on a number of reality television programmes. In 2004 she was in the second series of The Surreal Life. Her cast mates included Ron Jeremy, Vanilla Ice, Erik Estrada, Tammy Faye Bakker and Trishelle Cannatella. Two years later, she flew to England to appear in Celebrity Big Brother where she made it to the final six contestants and was evicted on the final night of the show. She befriended Maggot, the rapper from Goldie Looking Chain, but was ridiculed by the singer Pete Burns. She selected Families of SMA as the charity to receive a donation from her participation in the show because her niece had died from Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In 2007, Bingham appeared on VH1's The Surreal Life: Fame Games and won the $100,000 Goldenpalace.net Grand Prize. In 2008, Bingham appeared on Fox Reality's Gimme My Reality Show! competing with six other celebrities to get their own reality show.

Other television

In 2008, Bingham also appeared on The 2008 World Magic Awards television show. Two years later, she appeared on the Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff.

Modelling

Bingham has posed for Playboy Magazine on a number of occasions. In June 1998, she posed for a "Babes of Baywatch" issue along with Donna D'Errico, Marliece Andrada, Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Carmen Electra, Gena Lee Nolin, and Erika Eleniak. In 2005, Bingham was hired as a spokesmodel by Empire Poker, an online gambling site.

Adult Spokes Model & Porn Star Contract

In 2010 Bingham signed on as Spokes Model for the upcoming hybrid mainstream and adult entertainment company Hot Chicks Only (HcO), where she is under contract to perform two adult content hardcore scenes with detailed contracts outlining a "facial climax" on the former Baywatch star. In April 2013 a California court awarded producers from the company a $171,000+ judgment against Bingham. The judgment is currently being domesticated in Massachusetts where Bingham now resides with her mother.

Activism

Bingham is a committed vegetarian. Bingham is a member of PETA and has appeared in their "I'd Rather Be Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign.