Linda Rhys Vaughn Bio
Linda Rhys Vaughn is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Linda Lou Vaughn on August 11, 1959, in Grossmont, California. Playboy named her its April 1982 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Vaughn has natural breasts, blue eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-23-35.
The photograph that introduced Linda Rhys Vaughn to a wide audience was made by Pompeo Posar, and the image’s mix of Americana and glamour proved vivid enough to inspire the 1984 television movie I Married a Centerfold. That unlikely pairing—a ranch-bred presence captured by one of the magazine’s reliable hands—fixed her in the era’s glossy visual shorthand without reducing her to a single frame.
Raised with a real cowboy for a father, she brought an equestrian’s ease to modeling. Riding and handling horses were more than a hobby; they shaped the posture and rhythm she carried into shoots and into small-screen curiosity. Those details—cowhide and camera light in the same portfolio—gave her a look that read as both country-direct and quietly practiced.
Her life after the spotlight has its own practical geometry. Today she lives on a ranch in Idaho with her husband; together they run a drafting company. The place is described as deliberately domestic rather than cinematic, a setting in which everyday work and family routine replace the stagecraft of magazine production.
Seen across these chapters—centerfold, television shorthand, equestrian competence and ranch life—Vaughn’s story resists a single label. It’s the kind of quietly varied American career that looks different close up than it does in a publicity still: less an image and more a sequence of lived appliances and skills.
