Tara Chambler is a fictional character from the novel The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor based on the comic book series The Walking Dead (known as "Tara Chalmers" in the novel) and The Walking Dead television series, where she is portrayed by Alanna Masterson. Tara and her girlfriend Alisha are the first LGBT characters to be introduced in the television series. She is the last surviving member of both the Chambler family and Caesar Martinez's camp. Tara Chalmers lives in Atlanta with her sister April and her father David in an apartment building that they have secured. April saves a group of people, including the man later known as The Governor, from a large herd of undead by calling the group to her building. The elderly David later dies and turns into a zombie without having been bitten. After Philip "kills" David, tension grows between him and Tara. Philip sexually assaults April. The morning afterwards, April is nowhere to be found, and Tara forced the group, at gunpoint, to l...