Nancy Nielsen Bio
Nancy Nielsen is an American Playboy model. She was born on December 14, 1940, in New York City, New York. Playboy named her its April 1961 Playmate at 20. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Nielsen has natural breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-24-36.
Nancy Nielsen was already trying to trade ordinary work for Hollywood when Playboy photographed her. She had worked as a waitress, but acting was the real ambition, and Twentieth Century-Fox had seen enough potential to enroll her in its acting school. That gave her plans more substance than the usual starlet daydream: Nielsen was studying the craft while living close enough to Hollywood to make auditions and lessons part of everyday life.
Cars were another enthusiasm. Nielsen owned an MGA and enjoyed looking after it herself, treating the sports car as more than transportation between acting lessons. Baseball provided a different kind of diversion, with trips to the Coliseum to watch the Dodgers fitting neatly into her Southern California routine.
She also painted in oils, adding a quieter creative pursuit to the acting and modeling work. The combination suggests someone drawn to visual expression in several forms, whether on canvas, in front of a camera or through the performance training she hoped would lead to film and television.
Lawrence Schiller photographed her centerfold with a restrained, composed approach rather than an elaborate concept. Playboy session remains the clearest surviving record of that period: a young actress-in-training, sports-car enthusiast and painter caught just as she was trying to turn Hollywood ambition into professional work.
