Ashley Cox

Playboy Playmate of The Month for December 1977

Ashley Cox Bio

Ashley Cox is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Debbie Jean Cox on November 15, 1956, in Dallas, Texas. Playboy named her its December 1977 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.

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

Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli, the era’s go-to portraitist for glossy, studio-polished pictorials — an assignment that placed her squarely in the magazine’s visual lineage while leaving room for a parallel life on screen. Around the same time she appeared in the pages, outlets and recollections listed her among Hugh Hefner’s so‑called “Personal Playmates,” a designation that marked a closer, off‑page association with the publisher rather than another editorial credit.

Acting work preceded and then ran alongside her modeling exposure. Film credits in the supplied record include a part in the 1976 science‑fiction picture Logan’s Run and later appearances in Drive‑In, The Nude Bomb, King of the Mountain, Looker and Night Shift. Television guest spots on series such as Vega$ and The Dukes of Hazzard rounded out a steady string of screen work through the late 1970s and early ’80s, presenting her as a familiar supporting presence rather than a headline star.

By 1984 she stepped away from the industry and returned to Texas, trading the erratic rhythms of Hollywood for more conventional occupations. The sources supplied note that she worked as a legal secretary and at one point owned an aerobics studio — practical, hands‑on ventures that kept her life purposeful and local once the cameras were no longer the point of arrival.

The arc that emerges in contemporary accounts is pragmatic: a model whose editorial moment sat alongside genuine screen experience, who declined to make stardom her only script and who later built a quieter professional life away from public notice. That combination — photographed by a leading magazine lens, present in genre films and television, then choosing a steady, entrepreneurial course at home — is the texture this record leaves behind.

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