Gwen Wong Bio
Gwen Wong was a Philippine Playboy Bunny, actress, artist, glamour and nude model. She was born on August 12, 1942, in Manila, Philippines, and has also been credited as Gwen Lipscomb. Playboy named her its April 1967 Playmate at 24. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Wong had natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 35-23-34.
Her centerfold was realized through the lenses of Mario Casilli and Gene Trindl, a pairing that favored poised studio light and a composed, subtly exotic look that the published copy—accurately enough—linked to a rich Eurasian ancestry: Chinese, Scottish, Spanish, Australian, Filipino and Irish. The result read less like a fashion statement and more like a study in refined contrast, an image built around line and quiet presence rather than flash.
Before the wider attention that followed, Gwen Wong worked on the floor at the Los Angeles Playboy Club, where the routine of service and showmanship translated easily to the camera. Those months behind the bar put her in front of photographers and editors and honed a camera-ready ease that shows in the quiet geometry of her photographs: posture, profile and the light that settled on them.
A short turn in genre cinema added another note to her public life. Credited as Gwen Lipscomb, she appears in the 1969 cult horror The Witchmaker in the small but memorable role of Fong Qual, a part that placed her briefly on the silver-screen margins of Hollywood’s late‑sixties fringe. The credit never became a long screen career, but it is a specific counterpoint to her work in magazines and clubs.
Later, Wong redirected her attention toward the studio in a different register, building a modest fine‑art practice in body casting and sculptural portraiture. That work kept the human figure at the center—less as an image to be consumed than as an object to be rendered, preserved and examined—completing a throughline from commercial glamour to hands‑on craft.
