Dawn Richard Bio
Dawn Richard is an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Margaret Dawn Richard on March 5, 1936, in Los Angeles, California, she has also been credited as Dawn Ioannides. Playboy named her its May 1957 Playmate at 21. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Richard has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-23-36.
Her centerfold was shot by Ed DeLong and David Sutton, and the photographs were only one part of a steady run through the men's-magazine circuit: she also posed for Bachelor, Modern Man, Man's Magazine and Vue, building a pin-up profile that moved easily between commercial glamour and the screen.
Acting had shown up early. She performed in a high-school production of Meet Me in St. Louis and by the mid‑1950s was appearing in studio features, most notably as one of Pharaoh’s daughters in Cecil B. DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments, sharing the frame with Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. She took smaller, genre-friendly turns as well, including the ill‑fated gymnast Theresa in the cult outing I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
Television work rounded out those film credits. Across the late‑1950s she guest‑starred on series familiar to American households of the era — Father Knows Best, Perry Mason, Colt .45 and Dragnet among them — the sort of assignments that kept a working performer visible between magazine shoots and studio calls.
In 1958 she married producer David L. Wolper, a personal milestone that likewise anchored her in the entertainment world beyond pin‑ups and bit parts. The record of those years is of a performer who moved fluidly through midcentury popular culture: centerfolds and men's magazines on the one hand, and durable screen credits — from biblical spectacle to drive‑in horror and steady television guest spots — on the other.
