Shannon Long (born 11 February 1969 in
Gladstone, QueenslandGladstone is an Australian city located some 550 kilometres by road north of Brisbane and 100 kilometres south-east of Rockhampton. The city is situated between the Calliope River to the north and the Boyne River some 14 kilometres to the south. Between the two river mouths lies the deep water...
,
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
) is an Australian
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and
actressAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. She was chosen as
PlayboyPlayboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. Playboy is one of the world's best...
magazine's
Playmate of the MonthA Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month . The PMOM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, as well as a short biography and the "Playmate Data Sheet", which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons, and...
for its October 1988 issue.
Shannon spent her formative years moving around
QueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia that occupies the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
and up and down the east coast wherever her father could find construction work. By the time she was in her early teens her family had settled in the
New South WalesNew South Wales is Australia's most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland and east of South Australia...
coastal town of
BallinaBallina is a town on the North Coast, New South Wales, Australia, and the seat of the Ballina Shire Council Local Government Area. It had a population of 16,477 in the 2006 Census.-Location:...
.
Soon after her 16th birthday she moved to Sydney, took up modeling and landed an immediate success as a Playmate in the Australian edition of
Playboy in September 1985.Shannon did an encore pictorial in late 1986, and represented Australia in the Playboy International Pageant in 1988.
She became the first ever Australian to appear as a Playmate in the U.S.
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Shannon Long (born 11 February 1969 in
Gladstone, QueenslandGladstone is an Australian city located some 550 kilometres by road north of Brisbane and 100 kilometres south-east of Rockhampton. The city is situated between the Calliope River to the north and the Boyne River some 14 kilometres to the south. Between the two river mouths lies the deep water...
,
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
) is an Australian
modelthumb|200px|Alesya Nazarova modeling a dress by [[bebe stores|bebe]]A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed for the purpose of displaying and promoting fashion clothing or other products and for advertising or promotional purposes or who poses for works of art.Modeling...
and
actressAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. She was chosen as
PlayboyPlayboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. Playboy is one of the world's best...
magazine's
Playmate of the MonthA Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month . The PMOM's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster, as well as a short biography and the "Playmate Data Sheet", which lists her birthdate, measurements, turn-ons, and...
for its October 1988 issue.
Shannon spent her formative years moving around
QueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia that occupies the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
and up and down the east coast wherever her father could find construction work. By the time she was in her early teens her family had settled in the
New South WalesNew South Wales is Australia's most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland and east of South Australia...
coastal town of
BallinaBallina is a town on the North Coast, New South Wales, Australia, and the seat of the Ballina Shire Council Local Government Area. It had a population of 16,477 in the 2006 Census.-Location:...
.
Soon after her 16th birthday she moved to Sydney, took up modeling and landed an immediate success as a Playmate in the Australian edition of
Playboy in September 1985.Shannon did an encore pictorial in late 1986, and represented Australia in the Playboy International Pageant in 1988.
She became the first ever Australian to appear as a Playmate in the U.S. edition in October 1988.
Her American success led to a second centerfold in the Australian edition in December 1988; she became the local "Playmate of the Year" in 1989 and appeared in another pictorial in 1992. She toured the USA in the early 1990s promoting Australian beer.
Shannon returned to Australia in the mid 1990s and wound down her modeling career in favor of becoming a computer specialist while doing occasional glamor modeling for local magazines.
Appearances in Playboy Videos
- Playboy Playmate DVD Calendar Collection: The '90s (2004)
- Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2002 (2001) (in bonus retrospective featurette on DVD)
- Playboy: Girls Down Under (2000)
- Playboy: Playmate Profile Video Collection Featuring Miss October 1997, 1994, 1991, 1988 (1997) Miss October 1988
- Playboy: 21 Playmates Centerfold Collection (1996) Miss October 1988
- Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1990 Miss November
See also