Katherine Hushaw Bio
Katherine Hushaw is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Katherine Lynn Hushaw on October 23, 1963, in Anaheim, California. Playboy named her its October 1986 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Hushaw has natural breasts, brown eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-23-34.
A licensed helicopter pilot long before that felt like a studio flourish, Katherine Hushaw brought a literal pilot’s poise to an image-driven career: steady hands, a taste for high vantage points and the kind of composure that reads well both in a cockpit and under studio lights. That uncommon credential became one of the small surprises people remembered about her work in the 1980s, a period when glamour photography favored production polish as much as presence.
Hushaw worked as a commercial actress and a voice-over performer, and she carried modeling credits that ranged from runway to cheekier advertising turns — notably a playful early appearance as the recognizable posterior in the first California Cooler ads. Those pieces of work sat beside more conventional photographic assignments and helped establish the versatility that kept her in demand for editorial shoots and promotional projects.
Outside cameras and commercials she cultivated interests that felt refreshingly specific. A devoted student of Japanese art and archaeology, she assembled a collection of netsuke and trained in the bodily arts of shiatsu massage and a form of martial practice noted in her materials as shou-shu. Those pursuits gave her a quietly disciplined counterpoint to the gloss of magazine life, an appetite for craft and detail that showed up in interviews and in the way she spoke about her projects.
She remained visible to fans through a string of Playboy video releases and by appearing on several of the magazine’s newsstand special covers, work that extended the photographic narrative many readers first encountered. The result was a portrait that mixed the era’s glossy glamour with a few literate, offbeat touches: a model who could navigate a set, narrate a spot, and climb into a cockpit without losing her cool.
