Patricia Kara

Kara currently stars in "Deal or No Deal" as one of the models.

Patricia Kara (Greek: Panayota Karamouzis) (born 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.

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 and 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 one of the caseholders on NBC's game show, Deal or No Deal, and holds case #9. She also substituted at 4, 5, and 10.

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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).