Allison Parks Bio 
Allison Parks was an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Gloria Sharlene Waldron on October 18, 1941, in Glendale, Arizona. Playboy named her its October 1965 Playmate at 23. She was later named Playmate of the Year 1966. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Parks had natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-24-36.
Allison Parks grew up around a family nursery and carried that practical, outdoorsy background into a life that rarely stood still. She worked in landscape and design, taught swimming part-time and took particular pride in helping young children become comfortable in the water. Flying soon became an even greater obsession. Once she began taking lessons in light aircraft, cars lost much of their appeal; Parks talked about the cockpit as a place where the distractions of everyday life simply fell away.
William Figge photographed her original centerfold, and the pictorial contained a private detail readers would not necessarily have recognized at the time: Parks was already a mother, and her two children appeared in the layout identified as swimming-school students. She also appeared in a January 1966 Playboy Mansion pictorial with Ashlyn Martin, extending her Playboy presence beyond the original centerfold.
“Allison Parks” itself began as a modeling name. She adopted the pseudonym for Playboy and later said she liked it well enough to keep using it professionally. That choice proved useful as her career continued after the magazine: Parks built a long run in modeling and acting, particularly television commercials, where her polished camera presence translated naturally into advertising work.
Her interests also remained broader than show business. Parks became a licensed scuba diver and later worked for an investment counseling firm, adding another practical chapter to a career that already included swimming instruction, aviation, modeling and commercial acting. The combination fits the woman Playboy had introduced years earlier—someone comfortable moving between glamour and decidedly hands-on pursuits.
Parks died of heart failure in 2010 while on a beach in Hawaii, one of her favorite places to vacation. Her public image was built around California sunshine and Playboy glamour, but the fuller story is more varied: a nursery worker, swimming instructor, aspiring pilot, mother, commercial actress, scuba diver and investment professional who turned a modeling alias into a lasting public identity.
