Cheryl Rixon

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Cheryl Rixon (born October 12, 1954 in Perth, Western Australia) was an Australian actor and pin-up model.

In the early 1970s, she was twice a finalist in the Annual Miss West Coast bikini beauty pageant, staged in Perth each January. She was described as a “bombshell”, and later appeared as a game show helper on local TV.

After appearing in obsure low-budget sex-comedy film Plugg (1975) shot in Perth, Rixon came to Melbourne and acted in several television roles for Crawford Productions. She played three different roles during the final episodes of Homicide. Her appearances did not feature much in the way of dialogue or characterisation and the focus was on showcasing her attractive figure in revealing costumes. She also played an on-going role in Crawford's sex-comedy soap opera The Box.

She subsequently found fame as a nude pin-up model. She was Penthouse Magazine's December 1977 Pet, and in 1979 she was chosen Penthouse's Pet of the Year in a televised pageant held at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. In July 1980 Cheryl kicked off New York Mayor Ed Koch's "Festival of Fragrances". She was again showcased with a ten-page spread in Penthouse in 1980, and posed for Oui Magazine in November 1982. During this period she appeared in films such as The Eyes of Laura Mars and Used Cars.

She never received the Penthouse prizes promised, and in 1985 took the company to the New York State Supreme Court which ruled that she was entitled to them. The judgment was later affirmed on appeal.

Cheryl now lives in the US and designs jewelry which she sells under the name of Royal Order.