Denise Michele Bio
Denise Michele is an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Denise Michele Tom on June 12, 1953, in San Francisco, California, she has also been credited as Denise Kellogg. Playboy named her its April 1976 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Michele has natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 36-25-36.
Raised in Hawaii after her family left California, Michele finished at Kailua High School in 1971—an island upbringing that the era’s photographers found photogenic and relaxed. Her centerfold images were shot by Ken Marcus, a detail that ties her pictorial to the commercial glamour craft of the period.
Her face turned up where pop culture circles cross: she appears on the cover of Robert Palmer’s 1976 album Some People Can Do What They Like, memorably cast in the record’s strip‑poker tableau. That single sleeve placed her image in the hands of music buyers as well as magazine readers.
On screen she kept that crossover going with small television and film work, credited with bit parts on The Jeffersons and in the TV movie Three on a Date. Film credits include a brief nude appearance in Tai-Pan and stunt work on Big Trouble in Little China, contributions that show how her on‑set presence extended beyond posed photography to practical, if modest, screen duties.
Off camera she married director David Kellogg; the couple made their home in Hidden Hills, California, and raised two sons and a daughter. Taken together, those album sleeves, TV cameos and film turns kept Michele visible across several corners of 1970s popular culture rather than confined to a single page.
