Michele Drake Bio
Michele Drake is an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Michele Ann Drake on February 7, 1958, in La Jolla, California, she has also been credited as Baroness of Bush. Playboy named her its May 1979 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Drake has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-24-34.
Her on-screen life read like a grateful footnote to late‑1970s Hollywood: Michele Drake turned up in a string of recognizable, off‑beat studio pictures — American Gigolo, The Hollywood Knights, History of the World: Part I and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie — where small, well‑timed appearances kept her visible between magazine spreads and nightclub stages.
Television brought a different sort of spotlight. She toured circuits of variety and specialty shows as a member of "The Singing Playmates," a performing troupe drawn from Playboy’s ranks that landed television specials and live dates. That run included a New Year turn on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1982 and bills shared with veterans such as Bob Hope, Jane Fonda, Mike Douglas and George Burns, a reminder that variety programming still valued a polished, camera‑ready revue.
Beyond performance, Drake followed a quieter, less public trajectory into wellness and behind‑the‑camera work. Source material reports she became involved in naturopathic approaches to health and later moved into international film production, shifting some of her energy from being in front of the lens to helping shape projects overseas. She also built a family life, marrying and raising two children while balancing those professional interests.
She has kept music in the fold: later accounts describe her singing in an all‑girl band and entering karaoke contests, a civic‑minded return to the sort of live, audience‑facing work that framed much of her early career. For Drake, the record reads as a steady stream of small reinventions — performer, ensemble vocalist, wellness advocate and production collaborator — rather than a single, tidy headline.
