Sharon Clark

Playboy Playmate of The Month for August 1970

Sharon Clark Bio Playmate of The Year

Sharon Clark is an American actress, glamour and fashion model. She was born Sharon Olivia Clark on October 15, 1943, in Seminole, Oklahoma. Playboy named her its August 1970 Playmate at 26. She was later named Playmate of the Year 1971. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.

Clark has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-24-36.

A degree in sociology from the University of Oklahoma gave Sharon Clark an uncommon starting point for a life in front of the camera; she later described her studies as a practical way to read people and situations, a perspective she said informed both posed portraiture and on-set work. That intellectual ballast kept her from fitting any single label and helped shape the choices she made once cameras and casting directors began to notice her.

Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong, frames that the record treats as exercises in careful, unostentatious portraiture—less about a single pose than about the calm authority of the sitter. The exposure brought attention beyond the glossy pages and led to offers in film and television, turning a magazine assignment into a short-lived but tangible entertainment career.

Clark also set an unusual age marker in the magazine’s own history: at 27 she became the oldest woman to receive the publication’s annual recognition, a distinction she kept for fifteen years. That statistic sits a little askew of the usual youth-first narrative and points to the particular mix of maturity and glamour her images conveyed.

On screen she took credits in features such as The Young Nurses and Herbie Rides Again and logged guest turns on series including The Bob Newhart Show and S.W.A.T.; those appearances never became a long-running acting career, but they demonstrate a willingness to move between print and performance. Measured against the era’s larger celebrity arcs, Clark’s record is compact rather than sprawling—an intelligent, composed presence whose Figge–DeLong centerfolds and modest résumé of screen work keep her a recognizable page in the magazine’s archive.

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