Cheryl Kubert Bio
Cheryl Kubert was an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Cheryl K. Kubert on March 11, 1938, in Los Angeles, California. Playboy named her its February 1958 Playmate at 19. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Kubert had enhanced breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-26-37.
The image that introduced Kubert to a national audience was shot by Mario Casilli, whose sleek, soft-focused framing turned a single centerfold into a study of mid-century glamour. Casilli’s portraiture honed the photograph’s economy—pose, light and mood doing the heavy lifting—so that the picture could live beyond any one issue and be remembered on its own terms.
Kubert carried that photographic currency into intermittent work before and after her magazine moment. Her screen appearance is modest but specific: she appears in the 1982 comedy Smokey and the Judge, a later credit that placed her squarely in narrative rather than purely pictorial company. The parts may not have made her a household name, but they registered a real if circumscribed crossover from still image to motion picture.
Off set and away from the camera, she married John W. Hawksley, a personal detail that threaded through the quieter chapters of her life. Those years, less visible than the centerfold or a single screen credit, nonetheless compose the private counterpoint to a public persona built around image and occasional performance.
Taken together, the record is compact but telling: a Casilli photograph that crystallized a look, a handful of screen appearances that broadened the frame, and a settled personal life beyond the magazines. In an era when a single publication could define a public self, Kubert’s story is one of a concise, recognizable career that extended just far enough beyond its photographic origin to leave a tidy footprint on the archive.
