Surrey Marshe Bio
Surrey Marshe is a Norwegian glamour and nude model. She was born Solveig Mellomborgen on November 11, 1947, in Oslo, Norway. Playboy named her its January 1967 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Marshe has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-22-34.
A brief publicity snafu accompanied her arrival in American magazines: the feature copy misidentified her country of origin, an error that only deepened the photograph’s air of European mystery. At the time she was studying in Denmark when the magazine’s scouts noticed her, and the resulting centerfold was shot by photographer Alexas Urba, whose frames emphasized a poised, cool presence rather than overt theatricality.
The centerfold itself favored restraint—carefully lit poses and a quiet composure that suited the era’s taste for cultivated glamour. Those images circulated widely enough that she turned the experience into prose rather than only pictures: in 1969 she published a memoir titled The Girl in the Centerfold, which chronicles the backstage life around a magazine feature and the particular pressures and oddities of that scene.
Her post-feature life grew quieter; she retreated from regular publicity and let the published pages stand as a compact record of that chapter. The memoir remains a useful first-hand account for readers who want a slice of how magazine culture worked at a certain moment rather than a glossy afterlife of celebrity.
Taken together, the photographs and the book sketch a modest story of a model who passed briefly through the magazine’s machinery of image and narrative. The centerfold was only one visible frame of that story, and her own writing ensured that the story didn’t end on the page.
