Tamara Mason is a character in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan portrayed by Sharlene Martin.
Tamara is prom queen and a popular girl. She often hangs out with Eva Watanabe, who is trying to emulate Tamara in subtle ways. She rejects the advances of Wayne Webber who has a crush on her and prefers more mature men. She is a delinquent as well, earning the ire of chaperone Charles McCulloch who threatens that she will not be able to visit New York City if she does not provide him a passable biology report.
After his niece Rennie Wickham catches Tamara and Eva doing drugs, they are nearly caught by McCulloch moments later. Believing that Rennie ratted on them, she plays a prank and knocks her overboard. Later, using Wayne and his camera, she uses her biology report as a sexual advance toward McCulloch, recording him in a compromising position.
She spurns Wayne and lets him out of her cabin before going to take a shower, when she emerges she discovers Jason Voorhees has entered her cabin and tries to hide quietly in the bathroom. Jason punches through her bathroom door, grabs her by the hair and hurls her into her mirror. She collapses and sobs as Jason smashes her mirror, begging for her life. Jason grabs a large shard of the mirror and kills her with it. After an emergency is called on the ship, Eva goes to find Tamara and finds her body still in her cabin's bathroom.