Lonny Chin Bio
Lonny Chin is a British actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on August 12, 1960, in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Playboy named her its January 1983 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Chin has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-22-35.
Her centerfold was captured by Arny Freytag, and the picture’s careful polish and cinematic framing became one of the images most often singled out from her shoot. Chin’s looks—shaped by a mixed Welsh, Swedish, Chinese and Jamaican heritage supplied in her published profiles—gave the photographs an uncommon, cross-cultural glamour that read as modern rather than simply decorative, a quality that helped the pictorial sit comfortably alongside the magazine’s glossy, high-production work of the era.
She also moved into Playboy’s then-new video space, becoming the very first Playmate ever featured in a Playboy video profile. That segment aired on the Playboy Channel and was folded into the magazine’s early experiments with video magazines, so Chin’s public presence arrived not just in still life but in motion at a moment when the brand was testing how its models translated to television.
Chin’s Playboy story had a family chapter: she photographed with her sister Gail in a Playmates-and-their-sisters pictorial published in April 1985, and the pair returned in the September 1986 Playboy’s Sisters Special Edition, where they shared the spotlight on the package’s cover. Those pages turned a solitary centerfold into a small, recurring narrative—sibling glamour presented as a themed feature rather than a one-off portrait.
Outside the magazine, Chin made brief forays into film, with small credited appearances in Star 80 and Fever Pitch. They were modest screen roles, the kind that kept her visible beyond the glossy spreads and reminded editors and casting directors alike that a model’s career in the 1980s could be built across media—print, tape, and the occasional celluloid blink.
