Lesa Ann Pedriana Bio
Lesa Ann Pedriana is an American glamour model, makeup artist, cheerleader, gymnast, DJ, photographer, and actress. She was born on November 24, 1962, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has also been credited as Lesa Pedriana. Playboy named her its April 1984 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Pedriana has natural breasts, brown eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-22-32.
Discovered during the magazine’s nationwide 30th Anniversary Great Playmate Search, Pedriana arrived with the mix of polish and play that made an editor reach for a photographer like Stephen Wayda. His pages recorded a centerfold presence that owed as much to timing and attitude as to looks — a clean, editorial energy that translated easily between glossy spreads and newsstand specials.
Before stepping in front of the camera she was already practicing image work: after beauty school she worked as a makeup artist for the magazine in Los Angeles, handling other models and shoots while keeping a weekend gig as a rock‑radio DJ. The combination of hands‑on craft and on‑air poise gave her an uncommon fluency with both the technical and performative sides of presentation.
Her association with the brand continued beyond the initial pictorial; Pedriana appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and in one video, then moved toward the motion‑picture world behind the lens. She worked as a still photographer on features such as The Dark Backward, The Nutt House — where she also pops up in a brief cameo as a tennis reporter — and The Chase, contributing production stills and on‑set images to independent film projects.
That blend of roles — makeup chair, DJ booth, centerfold subject, newsstand contributor and set photographer — makes for a career less easily boxed than a single credit would suggest, and it left Pedriana’s record scattered across both pages and film sets rather than confined to one corner of the entertainment world.
