Ola Ray Bio
Ola Ray is an American glamour model, actress, and music producer. She was born on August 26, 1960, in St. Louis, Missouri. Playboy named her its June 1980 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Ray has natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 34-26-35.
Ola Ray will always be most visible to millions for the brief, unforgettable turn as Michael Jackson’s girlfriend in the “Thriller” video — a pop‑culture moment that fixed her image in MTV‑era memory. That appearance came after a childhood spent partly overseas, where she learned to move in front of a camera and a crowd with equal ease.
In the 1970s her stepfather’s posting to Yokota Air Base put Ray in Tokyo, where she and her siblings formed a singing‑and‑dancing troupe called The Puppets. The group’s work in Japan included a record arrangement with CBS Tokyo and steady modeling for major department stores such as Daimaru, Isetan and Parco, a period that honed both performance chops and commercial polish.
Back in the United States after 1978, Ray translated that experience into mainstream advertising and screen work, serving as a spokesperson for national brands including Coca‑Cola, McDonald’s, Coors and Leggs. Her résumé moved into feature films and television: she appears in credits for 48 Hours, Night Shift, Beverly Hills Cop II and Fear City and was cast in a pilot spin‑off of Gimme a Break! for NBC, alongside a string of guest television turns.
Music and behind‑the‑scenes work have been part of the mix as well. Ray wrote and produced original songs, one of which reached the Top 5 regionally in Houston, and in recent years she has returned to genre filmmaking with parts in Shooting Heroin and It Wants Blood. Across modeling, screen and music credits, her career reads as a series of stage changes rather than a single chapter — small, decisive reinventions that kept her visible long after that one iconic moment on film.
