Candace Collins Bio
Candace Collins is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on May 26, 1957, in Dupo, Illinois, and has also been credited as Candace Jordan. Playboy named her its December 1979 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Collins has enhanced breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 35-23-34.
Her centerfold was shot by Richard Fegley, a photographer whose clean, studio-driven eye helped frame that particular moment in Playboy’s late‑1970s aesthetic. From there Collins became a recurring face on the magazine’s covers—credited nine times worldwide—and her February 1980 “eyes” cover was singled out by the Marketing Bestsellers Association as Cover of the Year, a rare trade recognition for a single-image concept.
Before and alongside her magazine work she kept close ties to the club side of the brand, earning a place on the floor as a Playboy Bunny in both St. Louis and Chicago and being named Chicago Playboy Bunny of the Year in 1976. Her pictorial appeared in what was then a record 410‑page issue of the magazine, a scale that underlined how Playboy was still publishing in a big‑magazine mode.
Collins parlayed that visibility into a conventional modeling career—her representation included Playboy Models, David & Lee, Shirley Hamilton, Covers Agency and Wilhelmina—and into small film appearances, with credits in features such as Class, Risky Business and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 that kept her visible in late‑1970s and 1980s popular culture without moving her away from magazine work.
Later she spent much of her professional life in Chicago media, hosting television programs and continuing to accept modeling and acting work through local representation such as Lily’s Talent Chicago. Nearly four decades after her centerfold, she reunited with fellow Playmates to recreate a celebrated cover—in 2017 she posed alongside colleagues including Kimberley Conrad and Renee Tenison, an image that underlined how certain magazine moments can be restaged as a kind of professional shorthand across generations.
