- Born
- Birth nameTarita Teriipia
- Tarita Teriipaia is a former actress of French Polynesian and Chinese descent most famous for having been the third wife of actor Marlon Brando, whom she later divorced. For media and entertainment appearances and engagements she has usually been billed as Tarita.
Tarita played Maimiti opposite Marlon Brando in the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She became Brando's third wife in 1962. She is the mother of two of Brando's children, a son, Simon Teihotu, and a daughter, Tarita Cheyenne. They divorced in 1972. Only months after Marlon Brando's death in 2004, Tarita published her memoirs titled Marlon, My Love and My Torment.
One of their grandsons, Tuki Brando, is a prominent model. As of 2015, she is the only wife of Brando who is still alive, after Movita Castaneda and Anna Kashfi died on February 12 and August 16 of 2015, respectively.
- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Borges
- SpouseMarlon Brando(August 10, 1962 - July 14, 1972) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- RelativesBrando, Tuki(Grandchild)
- Has lived on Marlon Brando's estate at the beach of Papeete since 1970.
- Was working as a dishwasher at a resort near Papeete, Tahiti, when she was discovered.
- Born in a bamboo hut 6 kilometers from Bora Bora's one village, Vaitape.
- Grandson Tuki Brando (b. 1990), her daughter's Cheyenne's son, has been chosen by Donatella Versace to be the new face of Versace for Men's collection. (2007).
- Although she had signed a contract with MGM, Marlon Brando made sure that she didn't get any more roles after Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
- [asked if she would like to be in more films]: No. Well, I would like, but he [Marlon Brando] doesn't want me to. He wants me to stay home and raise the children.
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