Monica Tidwell Bio
Monica Tidwell is an American writer, producer, director, actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on January 14, 1954, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Playboy named her its November 1973 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Tidwell has natural breasts, hazel eyes and red hair. Her measurements are 37-25-36.
She was the first centerfold to be younger than the magazine itself, a curious historical footnote that sat alongside a pictorial photographed by Dwight Hooker and Bill Frantz. That spread travelled beyond the U.S., appearing in Playboy Germany as well, and it announced a model whose appeal translated readily to other screens and stages.
Tidwell moved into film work with a string of credited parts that showed a willingness to explore genre and mood. She took a leading role in Robin, co‑starred in James Glickenhaus’s The Astrologer (also released as The Suicide Cult), and turned up in Nocturna and The Yum Yum Girls. In a small but notable contemporary note of crossover casting, she appears as the love interest opposite Willem Dafoe in New York Nights.
Her involvement in the arts extended into producing. In 2008 she was the primary producer of the Off‑Broadway psychological thriller Mindgame, a stage piece by Anthony Horowitz staged under the direction of Ken Russell and featuring Keith Carradine alongside Lee Godart and Kathleen McNenny. That credit locates her not merely in front of the camera but in the practical work of mounting and promoting theatrical productions.
Taken together, these credits sketch a career that moved comfortably between photographed image and narrative work—modelsheet to movie slate to the business of the stage. Rather than a single, tidy trajectory, Tidwell’s public life documents a series of shifts: pictorial visibility that opened doors to screen roles, and later a role behind the scenes that brought her taste for dramatic storytelling into play.
