Alana Soares Bio
Alana Soares is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on February 21, 1964, in Redondo Beach, California. Playboy named her its March 1983 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Soares has natural breasts, hazel eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-22-32.
Her centerfold, photographed by Ken Marcus, exemplified the magazine’s sleek, high‑gloss portraiture of the period and remains a clear example of the studio polish that framed many memorable images from that era. Marcus’s attention to composition and lighting gave the pictorial a cinematic look that matched the wider entertainment work she would pursue afterward.
That entertainment work included a sibling turn in the pages of the magazine: she and her younger sister, Leilani Soares, appeared together in the April 1985 issue, a rare pairings shoot that played on family resemblance while treating each subject as an individual presence on the page. The two‑sister feature added an uncommon footnote to both of their modeling records.
Soares also moved intermittently into screen and video appearances. Her credits include cameos and small roles in mainstream films and a placement in the music video for Cheech Marin’s “Born in East L.A.,” experiences that placed her at the intersection of magazine glamour and late‑1980s pop culture. Film mentions in her record include Beverly Hills Cop 2, Dragnet and Back to the Beach, where she turned up among a string of recognizable genre pictures and comic moments that summered the decade’s appetite for crossover casting.
Measured against a short, active run in print and occasional on‑screen work, her career reads as a period piece of late‑20th‑century glamour: part pictorial craft, part bit‑part appearances, and a family cameo that expanded the usual single‑subject narrative. The combination of a Ken Marcus centerfold, a joint issue with a sister, and a handful of film and video spots gives her archive a tidy, era‑specific coherence rather than a long, continuous public career.
