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List of Playboy Playmates of 1983

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The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1983. Playboy magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

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Lonny Chin
Personal details
Born (1960-08-12) 12 August 1960 (age 64)
Liverpool, England[1]
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[1]

Lonny Chin (born 12 August 1960 in Liverpool, England) is an English model and actress of Chinese, Jamaican, Welsh and Swedish descent. In addition to being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1983 issue,[1] Chin was the very first video Playmate featured by the magazine.[2][unreliable source?][3]

Chin also appeared with her sister Gail in a pictorial of Playmates and their sisters in the April 1985 issue.

February

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Melinda Mays
Personal details
Born (1962-02-23) February 23, 1962 (age 62)
Augusta, Georgia, United States[4]
Height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[4]

Melinda Mays (born February 23, 1962, in Augusta, Georgia)[4] is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1983 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.[4]

March

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Alana Soares
Personal details
Born (1964-02-21) February 21, 1964 (age 60)
Redondo Beach, California
Height5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)

Alana Soares (born February 21, 1964) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in March 1983.

April

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Christina Ferguson
Personal details
Born (1964-03-18) March 18, 1964 (age 60)
Phoenix, Arizona
Height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Christina Ferguson (born March 18, 1964) is an American model. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in April, 1983.

May

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Susie Scott
Personal details
Born (1963-11-02) November 2, 1963 (age 61)
San Diego, California
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Susie Scott Krabacher (born November 2, 1963) is an American model, actress, and philanthropist. Under her maiden name of Susie Scott, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1983 issue. Krabacher's autobiography, Angels of a Lower Flight, was released in October, 2007. She founded HaitiChildren, formerly Mercy and Sharing Foundation, a charitable organization focusing on Haiti and its children.[5] In September 2019, it was announced that Theodore Christman and Donna Gay Anderson had written a dramatic musical, Unfolded, about Krabacher's life and work.[6]

June

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Jolanda Egger
Personal details
Born (1960-01-08) 8 January 1960 (age 64)
Luzern, Switzerland
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Jolanda Egger (born 8 January 1960 in Luzern, Switzerland) is a model and actress, chosen by Playboy as Playmate of the Month for June 1983. Occasionally she was credited as Yolanda Egger. Egger was the first Playmate of the Year for the Swiss edition of Playboy in 1984.[7] Egger married race car driver Marc Surer in 1986; they divorced after seven years. She married Patrick Tavoli in 1997. This marriage also lasted seven years and she had two children with Tavoli. On her 50th birthday in 2010, she married hotel owner Jacques Risi.[7]

July

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Ruth Guerri
Personal details
Born (1958-02-12) February 12, 1958 (age 66)
St. Louis, Missouri
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Ruth Guerri (born February 12, 1958, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American model and actress of Italian descent. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1983 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag and Stephen Wayda. Guerri was working as a model in her home town, primarily for Anheuser-Busch, at the time she became a Playmate. According to the 1996 edition of The Playmate Book, she married and had two daughters; at that time the family was living in Missouri in a log cabin and owned an antique store.

August

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Carina Persson
Personal details
Born (1958-06-14) 14 June 1958 (age 66)
Stockholm, Sweden
Height5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)

Carina Persson (born 14 June 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1983 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. Carina was also an extra in the movie "Into the Night" with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Goldblum.[citation needed]

September

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Barbara Edwards
Playboy Playmate of the Year
1984
Preceded byMarianne Gravatte
Succeeded byKaren Velez
Personal details
Born (1960-06-26) June 26, 1960 (age 64)
Albuquerque, New Mexico[8]
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[8]

Barbara L. Edwards (born June 26, 1960, in Albuquerque, New Mexico)[8] is an American model and actress. She was Playmate of the Month for September 1983 and Playmate of the Year for 1984.[8]

October

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Tracy Vaccaro
Personal details
Born (1962-05-04) May 4, 1962 (age 62)
Glendale, California[9]
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[9]

Tracy Vaccaro (born May 4, 1962, in Glendale, California)[9] is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1983 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.[9] Vaccaro was married to American football player and actor, Fred Dryer.[10] They split up in 1986, but they divorced just in 1988 (after a 5-year marriage). Fred and Tracy have one daughter, Caitlin Nell Dryer, who was born on April 12, 1984. According to them, they broke up mostly because of Fred Dryer's long work days on TV series Hunter (1984). After the divorce, Vaccaro remarried and moved to Las Vegas with Caitlin and her new husband. In 1989, she gave birth to another child.

November

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Veronica Gamba
Personal details
Born (1963-10-28) 28 October 1963 (age 61)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Verónica Gamba (born 28 October 1963) is an Argentinian model and actress. Gamba was born in Buenos Aires.[11] She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1983 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.

December

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Terry Nihen
Personal details
Born (1960-09-17) September 17, 1960 (age 64)
Concord, Massachusetts
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Terry Nihen (born September 17, 1960) is an American model from Acton, Massachusetts.[12] She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in December, 1983.[13][14] Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley.[15]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Playmate data". Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Lonny Chin". Celebrity Nude Database. 23 May 2002. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Lonny Chin – Biography". IMDb.
  4. ^ a b c d "Playmate data". Retrieved 9 November 2010.
  5. ^ Adams, David (3 July 2005). "Perspective: A Haitian success turns sour". St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on 21 August 2006. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
  6. ^ "Christman Opera Company to Preview New Work "Unfolded"". Broadway World. 13 September 2019.
  7. ^ a b Schlittle, Flavia (27 October 2009). "Yolanda Tavoli: Ex-Playmate sagt zum dritten Mal Ja!" [Yolanda Tavoli: Ex-playmate says yes for the third time!]. Blick (in German). Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  8. ^ a b c d "Playmate data". Retrieved 18 July 2010.
  9. ^ a b c d "Playmate data". Retrieved February 5, 2010.
  10. ^ "Playmate News". Playboy. 55: 143–144. November 2008.
  11. ^ "Veronica Gambas". Playmates. Playboy. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  12. ^ "Extras". Boston Globe. 15 November 1983. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  13. ^ Sikorski, John (19 April 1997). "Ansonia Clocks Widely Recognised". Ocala Star-Banner (Big Sun Homes supplement). p. 7 – via Google News Archive Search. The December 1983 Playmate was Terry Nihen and lists for $6.
  14. ^ "Extras". Boston Globe. 8 November 1983. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  15. ^ Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds (Chronicle Books 2008) (ISBN 978-0811860918)