Tara Buck, born March 16, 1975 in Idaho, is an American actress who plays the role of Ginger on the HBO original series True Blood. Making her debut on the episode "The Fourth Man in the Fire" in the series' first season, Tara plays the role of a human that waitressed at the vampire nightclub Fangtasia. A co-starring actress through the series' first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons, she was promoted to starring actress in the series' seventh season. Revealed to be the person who originally established the nightclub in which she is employed, Tara's concept was glamoured out of her by Pamela Swynford de Beaufort, one of her vampire employers. Tara was last seen in the episode "Love is to Die" in the series' seventh, and final, season.