Helle Michaelsen Bio
Helle Michaelsen is a Danish glamour model, fashion model, and actress. Born Helena Michaelson on November 2, 1968, in Aalborg, Denmark, she has also been credited as Dippy and Helena Wellington. Playboy named her its August 1988 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Michaelsen has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-24-34.
Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley, a credit that placed one of her most enduring images in the company of 1980s glamour work and gave the shoot a distinctly magazine‑studio polish. That spread also carried a small behind‑the‑scenes detail often retold in interviews: Brigitte Nielsen, already known on both sides of the Atlantic, encouraged Michaelsen to pose for the magazine, a suggestion that arrived as a personal nudge rather than a publicity brief—Brigitte Nielsen appears in the story as one of the names who helped persuade her.
Before she ever crossed into international publications, Michaelsen had been working on Danish television and in local films straight out of high school, accumulating screen experience that shows up in the varied credits that followed. The early work made her a familiar presence in Denmark and provided the acting foundation she would draw on later.
After the magazine exposure she returned to the screen frequently: she was featured in a string of Playboy videos and special newsstand editions and took small parts in English‑language productions and cult genre films such as Body Fever, Russian Terminator, Grottmorden and The Sand Angels. Her on‑camera work also includes a guest appearance on Baywatch, the kind of brief U.S. television slot that many European models of the era used to broaden their visibility.
Taken together, Michaelsen’s career reads less like a single trajectory and more like a series of deliberate moves between markets and formats—magazine centerfolds, video specials and modest film and television turns—each medium reflecting a different practical side of a late‑1980s glamour career that bridged Copenhagen and California.
