List of Playboy Playmates of 1980

The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1980. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

January

Geraldine "Gig" Gangel (born October 17, 1958 in Harlingen, Texas^[1]) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1980 issue.^[2] Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.^[1][3]

Before becoming a Playmate, Gangel appeared on the October 1979 cover of Playboy. In The Playmate Book, Gangel commented on her photo shoot with Reynolds that, "I didn't think Burt was my type, until I met him."

February

Sandra Joyce Cagle (born February 2, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin^[1]) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1980 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.^[1] Cagle had a brief stint as a Bunny at the Playboy Resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin before her Playmate selection. She appeared on four covers of the Japanese edition in one year before she became a Playmate.

March

Henriette Allais (born July 22, 1954 in Jacksonville, Florida)^[1] is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1980 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag and Richard Fegley.^[1] In 1980, she posed for Helmut Newton's "Big Nudes" series. Her portrait "Big Nude III" became the poster for the first exhibition of the series at Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris in 1981. A numbered print of "Big Nude III" was sold at an auction at Christie's in November 2005 for £176,000 ($311,344).^[4]

April

Liz Glazowski (born December 19, 1957 in Zakopane, Poland)^[5] is a Polish-American model. She is best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1980 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.^[5]

May

Martha Elizabeth Thomsen (born January 25, 1957 in Moses Lake, Washington) is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1980 issue.

June

Ola Ray (born August 26, 1960)^[6] is an American model and actress who costarred in the short film for "Thriller" in 1983. She modeled for Playboy and was the Playmate of the Month for the June 1980 issue.^[6]

July

Teri Peterson (born November 6, 1959 in Santa Monica, California) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1980 issue.^[7]

August

Victoria Cooke (born July 31, 1957 in Hollywood, California)^[8] is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1980 issue.

September

Lisa Welch Selmer^[9] (born on November 11, 1960 in Aberdeen, Maryland) is an American model, actress and artist. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1980 issue. Selmer played Suzy, a cheerleader, in Revenge of the Nerds. She is married and lives in Malibu, California. She's a painter and photographer.^[9] She sells her paintings to greeting card companies. The couple also maintain their own vineyard and make their own wine.^[10]

External links

• Lisa Welch at Playboy Online
• Lisa Welch at the Internet Movie Database

October

Mardi Jacquet (born November 2, 1960 in Châteauroux, France)^[1] is a French-American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1980 issue.

November

Jeana Tomasino was born on September 18, 1955 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.^[1] Tomasino graduated from Whitnall High School located in Greenfield, Wisconsin in 1972. When she was younger, she worked as a model and actress. Tomasino was also a Playboy magazine Playmate of the Month in November 1980.^[11]

Currently known as Jeana Ellen Keough, Tomasino is a real estate salesperson in Aliso Viejo, California^[12] and a cast member of the reality show The Real Housewives of Orange County.^[13]

December

Terri Welles (born Terri Knepper November 21, 1956 in Santa Monica, California)^[1] is an American actress and model. Welles first appeared on the cover of the May 1980 issue of Playboy. She was the centerfold in the December 1980 issue and named Playmate of the Year for 1981. Her original Playmate pictorial was photographed by Richard Fegley.

Playboy Enterprises sued Welles in 1998 over her online use of its trademark terms "Playboy" and "Playmate of the Year" for commercial purposes. In Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Welles,^[14] the courts ruled that virtually all of Welles' uses of the terms were allowed.

See also

• List of people in Playboy 1980-1989

References