Debra Jo Fondren Bio 
Debra Jo Fondren is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on February 5, 1955, in Los Angeles, California, and has also been credited as Debra Fondren. Playboy named her its September 1977 Playmate at 22. She was later named Playmate of the Year 1978. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Fondren has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-24-36.
Discovered by photographer Robert Scott Hooper during a visit to Las Vegas, Debra Jo Fondren turned that encounter into a sustained presence in entertainment beyond the magazine pages. Rather than stay anchored to a single lane, she moved into television work that kept her in front of American audiences through a string of guest turns.
Her small-screen credits include appearances on Mork & Mindy, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Fantasy Island and Knots Landing, each part a compact showcase of ease under a variety of production styles and scripts. Those episodic roles sat alongside a modest film résumé—she appears in the comedy Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter and co-starred in the action-tinged picture Spitfire—and she took on off-camera responsibilities as casting director and second assistant director on the low-budget drama The Last Road.
Fondren’s range extended to the stage, where she performed in productions such as Bus Stop, M.A.S.H., Play It Again, Sam and Death Takes a Holiday, trading the closed frame of television for the more immediate demands of live performance. That mix of screen, plate and backstage work suggests a practitioner comfortable with different parts of a project rather than a single credit line.
A personal transformation in the early 1980s led her to identify as a born-again Christian, and she later reappeared in a series of Playboy videos during the early-to-mid 1990s—by then wearing shoulder-length red hair—and was a recurring guest at Glamourcon events in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2004 she publicly stepped back from Playboy promotions, saying they placed “too much emphasis on sex.” Today she lives in Beaumont, Texas, where she works as an instructor at the Southwest Texas Career Institute.
