Unne Terjesen Bio
Unne Terjesen is a Norwegian glamour and nude model. She was born on March 20, 1943, in Odda, Norway. Playboy named her its July 1962 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Terjesen has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 39-23-39.
Long before photographers were framing her for American gloss, Unne Terjesen first showed up on Norwegian radars as a 1960 Miss Norway contestant. She trained and worked as a hairstylist at home, then emigrated to Canada where she supported herself as a sales clerk — the ordinary workaday stops that, by a single stroke of timing and fortune, put her in front of the right camera.
That camera belonged to Mario Casilli for the feature that would fix her image in the early-1960s pages; his studio portraiture emphasized the tall, statuesque lines that editors and advertisers found useful in fashion as well as in glamour. After the magazine appearance she moved into fashion modeling, turning the publicity of a moment into a steady stream of assignments and photographic work beyond the one fold.
Terjesen is also remembered inside the archive for a distinctive physical detail: among the Playmates of the era she was frequently cited for an exceptionally curvy silhouette, a trait singled out in contemporary write-ups. Her path — from salon chair to Canadian shopfloor to professional modeling — reads less like a straight career ladder than a succession of practical jobs and fortunate discoveries that fed a brief, elegant run in 1960s editorial fashion and glamour.
