Born in Perth, Australia. Tara grew up on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria before moving with her family to Sydney where she completed university obtaining a Diploma in Journalism and a BA in Media and Communications.

Throughout her school and university years she worked as a model part-time, and shot local and international campaigns for Ponds, Sunsilk, Toyota, Samsung, Oral B, Belvedere Vodka, KFC and Dunkin Donuts.

After her university degree Tara pursued a career as a model working in New York, London, Germany, Sydney, Hong Kong, China, Thailand and Singapore.

In March 2007 Tara was named as a finalist in the Guess Faces to Watch Model Search where Tara was chosen from 75,000 applicants in over 60 countries as the only Australian female finalist to go in the running to become the next face of Guess and compete for the title in Basel, Switzerland in April 2007.

Tara became an overnight online star securing the role of Charlie the fun-loving and fearless heroine on the London based interactive series KateModern, BAFTA nominated and Press Guild award winner for innovation in broadcasting 2007/2008.

After her massive success in KateModern Tara was nominated for a Streamy Award in 2009 as Best Actress in a Webseries drama by the International Academy of Web Television. Tara was the only non-US nomination and was nudged from the winner's podium by Rosario Dawson (Gemini Division).

Now based in Sydney Tara has guest starred on the kids hit series The Shak, and comedy/drama series Forget the Rules and become resident reporter for Unseen TV getting backstage access to the hottest fashion, music and red carpet events across Australia.