List of Playboy Playmates of 1983 explained

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

January

Lonny Chin
Birth Place:Liverpool, England
Birth Date:1960 8, df=yes

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] [3]

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

February

Melinda Mays
Birth Place:Augusta, Georgia, United States
Birth Date:1962 2, mf=yes

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.

March

Alana Soares
Birth Place:Redondo Beach, California
Birth Date:1964 2, mf=yes

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

April

Christina Ferguson
Birth Place:Phoenix, Arizona
Birth Date:March 18, 1964

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

May

Susie Scott
Birth Place:San Diego, California
Birth Date:November 2, 1963

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

Jolanda Egger
Birth Place:Luzern, Switzerland
Birth Date:1960 1, df=yes

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.

July

Ruth Guerri
Birth Place:St. Louis, Missouri
Birth Date:February 12, 1958

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

Carina Persson
Birth Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Birth Date:1958 6, df=yes

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.

September

Barbara Edwards
Birth Place:Albuquerque, New Mexico
Birth Date:June 26, 1960
Pmoy-Year:1984
Pmoy-Preceded:Marianne Gravatte
Pmoy-Succeeded:Karen Velez

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.

October

Tracy Vaccaro
Birth Place:Glendale, California
Birth Date:1962 5, mf=yes

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. 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

Veronica Gamba
Birth Place:Buenos Aires, Argentina
Birth Date:1963 10, df=yes

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

Terry Nihen
Birth Place:Concord, Massachusetts
Birth Date:17 September 1960

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

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Playmate data. 3 August 2010.
  2. Web site: Lonny Chin. Celebrity Nude Database. 23 May 2002 . 10 June 2013. usurped. https://web.archive.org/web/20111217153038/http://cndb.com/lonny-chin--c23354.html. 17 December 2011.
  3. Web site: Lonny Chin – Biography. IMDb.
  4. Web site: Playmate data. 9 November 2010.
  5. News: Perspective: A Haitian success turns sour . St. Petersburg Times . David . Adams . 3 July 2005 . 10 June 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060821141231/http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/03/Perspective/A_Haitian_success_tur.shtml . 21 August 2006 .
  6. News: Christman Opera Company to Preview New Work "Unfolded". Broadway World. 13 September 2019.
  7. News: Yolanda Tavoli: Ex-Playmate sagt zum dritten Mal Ja!. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091028021752/http://www.blick.ch/people/schweiz/ex-playmate-sagt-zum-dritten-mal-ja-131837. 28 October 2009. Flavia. Schlittle. 27 October 2009. Blick. de. Yolanda Tavoli: Ex-playmate says yes for the third time!. 23 April 2010.
  8. Web site: Playmate data. 18 July 2010.
  9. Web site: Playmate data. February 5, 2010.
  10. Playboy. Playmate News. 55. November 2008. 143–144.
  11. Web site: Veronica Gambas. Playmates. Playboy. 23 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120821000817/http://www.playboy.com/girls/view/veronica-gamba. 21 August 2012. dead.
  12. News: Extras . Boston Globe . 15 November 1983 . 6 July 2017 . 7 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121107185815/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/664152521.html?dids=664152521:664152521&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+15%2C+1983&author=&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=EXTRAS&pqatl=google . dead .
  13. News: Ansonia Clocks Widely Recognised. Ocala Star-Banner (Big Sun Homes supplement). 19 April 1997. 7. John. Sikorski. Google News Archive Search. The December 1983 Playmate was Terry Nihen and lists for $6..
  14. News: Extras . Boston Globe . 8 November 1983 . 6 July 2017 . 7 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121107185806/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/664140861.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+8%2C+1983&author=&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=1&desc=EXTRAS . dead .
  15. Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds (Chronicle Books 2008)