Rusty Fisher Bio
Rusty Fisher is an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Donna Fisher on April 5, 1935, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she has also been credited as Rusty Williams. Playboy named her its April 1956 Playmate at 20. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Fisher has natural breasts, green eyes and red hair. Her measurements are 36-22-35.
Rusty Fisher came to Playboy with an established pinup portfolio rather than as a first-time model. Before the magazine featured her, she had already appeared in several other men’s publications and calendars, sometimes working under the names Rusty Williams and Donna Fisher. She had also accumulated small film appearances, giving her experience with both still photography and motion-picture sets before Playboy entered the picture.
Her interests extended beyond modeling. Fisher sang, danced and rode horses, and Playboy’s original profile emphasized a physical confidence that fit neatly with the Western-flavored persona built around her Colorado background. She even joked about being able to fight nearly as well as she could ride, with a previously broken nose offered as evidence that the claim was not entirely decorative publicity.
Another small piece of mid-1950s glamour culture came through her selection as Miss MG for 1956, connecting Fisher to the era’s enthusiasm for sports cars, promotional queens and magazine models. It was the kind of title that sat comfortably beside calendar work and men’s-magazine photography, all part of the same publicity circuit that could keep a working model continually in front of new audiences.
Sam Wu photographed her centerfold with a comparatively relaxed approach, favoring an inviting, straightforward presentation over elaborate theatrical staging. Fisher’s broader public career was brief, but the Playboy session arrived at a moment when she was already working across magazines, calendars, promotional modeling and film. Rather than launching her from obscurity, the pictorial captured a model who had already learned how to make a living from the camera under more than one name.
