Lee Ann Michelle Bio
Lee Ann Michelle is a British actress, glamour and nude model. Born Carol Needham on March 17, 1960, in Surrey, United Kingdom, she has also been credited as Lee Michelle. Playboy named her its February 1979 Playmate at 18. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Michelle has natural breasts, green eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 35-23-35.
Michelle holds a small, curious footnote in Playboy history: she was the first Playmate born in the 1960s, her centerfold captured by Mario Casilli and arranged with the tidy clarity that defined much of that era’s pinup photography. The images emphasized a fresh-faced English reserve rather than the studio-glamour polish of some contemporaries, which helped her photographs sit comfortably alongside the magazine’s roster of international faces.
Her route into the spotlight was typically British and unapologetically tabloid: she began appearing on The Sun’s Page 3 at 16, debuting on January 7, 1977, and soon turned up in the Daily Mirror as the tabloids took notice. Those early newspaper pages led to a steady run of men’s-magazine pictorials, including work for Penthouse, that kept her a familiar image across both broadsheet and glossy venues during the late 1970s.
On screen she made a small, credited-less entry: an appearance as Sybill in the 1979 action thriller Seven. It was a brief detour into film rather than a wholesale change of direction, but it did place her among the era’s hybrid roster of women who moved between print and occasional screen work with ease.
By the time she stepped away from regular modeling, she had already begun to shape the business side of the image world. She later co-founded Needham and Hanson Management, a modeling agency through which she shifted from being photographed to developing and representing new talent. The move completed a tidy arc from tabloid pages to industry stewardship, leaving behind a compact career that balanced public-facing glamour with a practical hand behind the scenes.
