Traci Bingham

Traci Bingham (born January 13, 1968) appears in a bit role as a dancer in The Jiggly Room in a season ten episode of Married with Children. Traci is perhaps best known for playing the part of Jordan Tate on the television series Baywatch between 1996 and 1998.

Personal life

Traci was born and raised in west Cambridge, Massachusetts, a north Boston suburb, to a librarian mother and an aircraft technician father. Her mother is black and her father is of Cherokee Indian and Italian descent.

Career

Music videos

In 1991, she appeared in the video for Good Vibrations by fellow Boston natives Marky Mark (better known now as actor Mark Wahlberg) 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.

Traci as a lap dancer giving Jefferson "special treatment" in The Jiggly Room.

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 2006 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 Electrs, Gena Lee Nolin, and Erika Eleniak. In 2005, Bingham was hired as a spokesmodel by Empire Poker, an online gambling site.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1995	Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight	Party Babe
1998	Beach Movie	Julie
1999	Foolish	Simone
2000	The Private Public	Laina Brookhart
2000	Longshot	Herself
2003	More Mercy	Uncredited
2003	Four Fingers of the Dragon	Herself
2003	Malibooty!	Herself
2004	Bad Bizness!	Sandra
2007	Hanging in Hedo	Cashmere
2010	Black Widow	Lynda

Television work

Year	Title	Role
1995	Married with Children	as Lap Dancer, 1 episode
1996-98	Baywatch	Jordan Tate, 44 episodes
1999	The D.R.E.A.M. Team	Victoria Carrera (series canceled after 4 episodes)
2000	Strip Mall	Dawna
2000-01	To Tell The Truth	occasional panelist
2001	BattleBots	(host in 2001)
2002	MTV's Celebrity Boot Camp	As herself/cast member
2002	2 Minute Drill	Guest, 1 episode
2004	The Surreal Life	As Herself/cast member
2006	Bo! in the USA	Celebrity character
2006	Celebrity Panoramal Project	Episode 2
2007	The Surreal Life: Fame Games	As herself/cast member
2007	The Tyra Banks Show	Guest/2 episodes
2008	The 2008 World Magic Awards	Herself/performer
2010	Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff	guest roaster

External links

• Traci Bingham at the Internet Movie Database
• Traci's MySpace page
• Photo Gallery