Lynnda Kimball Bio
Lynnda Kimball is an American glamour model, stylist, and actress. She was born on May 1, 1952, in Inglewood, California. Playboy named her its January 1975 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Kimball has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 37-22-35.
Her centerfold was shot by Mario Casilli, the glossy-era portraitist whose lighting and polish suited Kimball’s smooth, camera-friendly looks. Already working at Playboy’s West Coast studio as a photo stylist, she was literally plucked from behind the camera and asked to pose — a modest, almost cinematic reversal that shifted her role from image-maker to image. The anecdote explains why her pictures feel knowingly staged: she understood the mechanics of glamour from the inside.
That inside knowledge surfaced before the centerfold itself. Readers first saw her in the July 1974 pictorial “Heady Stuff,” and she followed that with a cover appearance the next month, a quick two-issue run that proved she could hold a magazine spread as comfortably as she had arranged one. Those pages present someone who already knew how to shape light, angle, and attitude for maximum effect.
Film work limited itself to a single, small screen turn in the 1976 drive-in feature Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, a brief foray that left her credits modest but distinct. The part didn’t translate into a sustained acting career; instead, her professional life remained tethered to the visual sensibilities that first brought her to the magazine’s attention.
Taken as a whole, Kimball’s story is less a conventional rise than a vignette about talent discovered in a workplace rather than on a casting call. Found behind the lens, she stepped forward long enough to register as a memorable face of the period — one who knew how a photograph was made because she had been making them.
