Ashley Cox Explained

Ashley Cox
Issue:December 1977
Birth Place:Dallas, Texas
Birth Date:November 15, 1956

Ashley Cox (born November 15, 1956)[1] is an American model and actress.

Career

Cox was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.[2] Cox was one of Hugh Hefner's "Personal Playmates", a term Hefner designated women whom he dated seriously.[3]

Cox appeared in movies such as Logan's Run (1976),[4] Drive-In (1976),[5] The Nude Bomb (1980), King of the Mountain (1981), Looker (1981),[6] and Night Shift (1982).

Personal life

She has two children and, as she told The Playboy Book in 1996:

Filmography

Film

!Year!Title!Role!Notes
1976Drive-InMary Louise
1976Logan's RunTimid Girl
1980The Nude BombModel #1
1981King of the MountainElaine
1981LookerCandy
1982Night ShiftJenny Lynn

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1979The Dukes of HazzardGarbade's GirlEpisode: "Road Pirates"
1980VegasLoyal RutledgeEpisode: "The Lido Girls"

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Playmate data. 8 December 2010.
  2. Book: Hugh Hefner. Dave Hickey. Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds. Chronicle Books. 2008. 978-0-8118-6091-8.
  3. Book: Steven Watts. Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American dream. Wiley. 2008. 282. 978-0-471-69059-7.
  4. She acted out the "timid girl" who, after "the City's" seals were broken, first tentatively touched the grayed whiskers of Peter Ustinov, as "the old man," in the final sequence, and then smiled to the others in the crowd. Many of the indoor sequences of the film were shot in her native Texas.
  5. Book: Michael Weldon. The Psychotronic Video Guide. Macmillan. 1996. 175. 978-0-312-13149-4.
  6. Book: Nash . Jay Robert . Jay Robert Nash . Nash . Stanley Ralph . Ross . Stanley Ralph . Stanley Ralph Ross . The Motion Picture Guide ... Annual . . 1987. 9780933997004 .