Lisa Baker

Playboy Playmate of The Month for November 1966

Lisa Baker Bio Playmate of The Year

Lisa Baker is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Lisa Nicole Baker on March 19, 1944, in Detroit, Texas. Playboy named her its November 1966 Playmate at 22. She was later named Playmate of the Year 1967. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.

Baker has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 35-23-35.

Discovered behind the counter of a hometown drugstore and spotted by a photographer while serving as a bridesmaid at a friend’s wedding, Lisa Baker’s route to the camera had the kind of small, serendipitous moments Hollywood scripts like to borrow. William Figge—one of the magazine’s regular photographers—framed the images that introduced her to a national audience, trading soda-fountain quiet for the sunlit composure Figge favored in his portraiture.

Figge’s lens emphasized a poised, statuesque glamour rather than flashy theatricality, and the magazine’s annual recognition that followed carried its own trappings of the era: among the rewards associated with that distinction was the now‑iconic pink AMC Ambassador convertible. The combination of a composed photographic style and a choreography of celebrity gestures kept her visible beyond a single centerfold.

That visibility translated into television work and brand spots. She went on to serve as a spokesmodel for the publication, made variety‑show appearances on programs such as The Jonathan Winters Show, and—by her own account in contemporary publicity—played the Budweiser girl on The Tonight Show. These engagements kept her in front of mainstream viewers at a moment when magazine fame and television exposure still moved in the same orbit.

Baker revisited the pages in later years, appearing in a 1979 Playmates Forever! pictorial and again in a June 1997 feature, gestures that underline how the magazine and its alumni sustained a long, if intermittent, conversation. In subsequent decades she divided her time between Texas and Florida and remained a regular at fan events and conventions that celebrate the magazine’s history. Those returns and public appearances helped define a career that fit neatly into both the glossy rhythms of 1960s publishing and the quieter, enduring circuits of popular memory.

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