Teri Peterson Bio
Teri Peterson is an American fashion model, and actress. She was born on November 6, 1959, in Santa Monica, California. Playboy named her its July 1980 Playmate at 20. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Peterson has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-22-34.
The July 1980 centerfold that introduced Teri Peterson to a wider Playboy readership was shot on location in Careyes, Mexico, and credited to photographer Phillip Dixon. The pictorial, titled “Going in Style,” favored a sunlit, fashion-minded composition—beaches, surf and a relaxed seaside pose—that left the emphasis on mood as much as on form, a choice that linked the spread to the glossy, high-production sensibility of the era.
Those editorial instincts had a basis in a working fashion résumé. By then she already moved through the modeling circuit and continued to book shoots and specialty magazine assignments afterward, including appearances in several Playboy special-edition publications that kept her visible to the magazine’s readers beyond the centerfold month.
Acting threaded through her public life as well. Credits include a small, uncredited screen appearance in The House of God, and much of her documented performance work centered on stage productions around Los Angeles, where she pursued roles in local theater rather than a steady stream of Hollywood features.
Later in life she turned those same physical disciplines toward teaching: in subsequent years Peterson worked as a martial-arts instructor and as a personal trainer. It is a practical coda to a career that moved between fashion sets, theater stages and film, and one that quietly underlines a professional throughline built on movement, composure and a steadier kind of self-reliance than the spotlight alone would suggest.
