Gianna Amore Bio
Gianna Amore was an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Jennifer Ellen Amoroso on April 5, 1968, in Warwick, Rhode Island, she has also been credited as Jennifer Ellen Amoroso Smith and Jennifer Ellen Smith. Playboy named her its August 1989 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
Amore had natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 38-24-34.
Amore moved between magazines and movies with a straightforward professionalism that kept her visible beyond a single pictorial. She took small but memorable parts in late‑1980s and early‑1990s comedies, credited as Mary Beth in the 1988 farce Screwball Hotel and turning up as a party guest in Dan Aykroyd’s 1991 comedy Nothing but Trouble, appearances that put her in front of a broader, if modest, cinema audience.
Alongside those screen moments she remained a recurring presence in Playboy’s ancillary output, appearing in video releases and special‑edition compilations, including Playboy’s Playmate Bloopers and the Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1992. Those projects extended her visibility inside the brand’s fan circulation and offered a steady stream of work after her magazine feature.
Before stepping into modeling and acting she worked as a secretary, a detail contemporary coverage noted as she began pursuing professional opportunities in entertainment. Public records show she later used a married surname; she died on February 27, 2024, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, at the age of 55, with the death recorded under the name Jennifer Ellen Smith.
Taken together, her credits trace a career that balanced glossy magazine exposure with light comic turns on screen and steady participation in branded video compilations — a late‑’80s, early‑’90s portfolio that kept her recognizable to readers and viewers of the period.
