Jean Moorhead Bio
Jean Moorhead is an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Barbara Jean Moorhead on February 4, 1935, in Knoxville, Tennessee, she has also been credited as Jean Moorehead. Playboy named her its October 1955 Playmate at 20. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Moorhead has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-23-35.
Moorhead’s Playboy centerfold was shot by Hal Adams, whose clean, unfussy technique favored posture and line over bravura spectacle. The picture reads as much like a studio portrait as a pin-up: posed with a Hollywood-inflected poise, it frames her with the spare, balanced restraint that distinguished many of the magazine’s midcentury layouts.
After modeling, she turned occasionally to acting, taking parts on television series of the era. Her screen work included appearances on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Highway Patrol and The Real McCoys, assignments that kept her in the steady stream of guest roles and one-off parts that characterized many models’ moves into television at the time. Those credits amount to a brief but visible chapter in a public life otherwise centered on photographic work.
In later decades Moorhead stepped away from the limelight and maintained a relatively low public profile, yet her centerfold and handful of screen appearances have continued to find a place in the collecting and pin-up communities. The image that first introduced her to a national audience endures as a compact example of 1950s studio-era glamour—restraint and composition driven as much by the photographer’s eye as by the subject’s presence.
