Audrey Daston Bio
Audrey Daston is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on April 25, 1936, in Boise, Idaho. Playboy named her its March 1959 Playmate at 22. Her appearance dates from the magazine's formative 1950s, when the Playmate format was still taking shape.
Daston has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-24-36.
Daston came to Playboy from a quietly conventional route for the period: fashion work and commercial portfolios rather than the nightclub-to-cover circuit. Early assignments honed a poised, camera-ready manner that translated easily to the magazine’s centerfold style, and it was that training—more than a sudden leap into notoriety—that shaped the images her readers remember.
Her Playmate centerfold was shot by Lawrence Schiller, a photographer whose editorial eye favored clean lines and understated glamour. The photographs emphasized a natural ease rather than theatrical posing; in print they read as a study in relaxed refinement, the sort of layout that suggested a model at ease with both fashion framing and the more intimate demands of men's-magazine work.
After the shoot she continued to model, making a handful of appearances in other men's periodicals and commercial assignments, but she never became a perennial presence on the publicity circuit. Those subsequent credits kept her image in circulation for a time without pushing her into the kind of long-running celebrity career that swallowed some of her contemporaries.
Her acting record was modest rather than marquee. Rather than pursue film or television as a full-time vocation, she made only occasional forays into acting, and public documentation treats those credits as occasional diversions rather than a second profession.
A late pop‑culture aside gave the pictorial renewed life when the centerfold itself turned up in the film Dead Poets Society, a small but lasting reminder that a single magazine moment can echo in unexpected places. For Daston that echo has done much of the archival work: a brief, well-crafted stretch of visibility that continues to circulate through image and memory more often than through headlines.
