Taryn Baker is a recurring character throughout the first, second, third, and fourth seasons of the Fox drama series The O.C.. She is portrayed by Kimberly Oja.
She is one of the "Newpsies;" wealthy, bored women who live in Newport Beach and spend their days lunching, shopping and gossiping. Many of her appearances centered on her sexually adventurous side. In the first season episode, she attended a swingers' party, claiming that such events had "saved [her] marriage." Later, she helped spread the rumour that Luke Ward's father had been having an affair with his male business partner, and that this was why he had turned her down when she propositioned him. In the fourth season, it was revealed that swinging eventually didn't save her marriage, which ended in divorce. Since her divorce, she had been sleeping with as many young men as possible. She also appeared in flashback, in the fourth season episode, where it was revealed that she attended high school with Kirsten Cohen and Jimmy Cooper.
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