Fawna MacLaren Bio
Fawna MacLaren is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born Fauna Ann MacLaren on December 18, 1965, in Santa Monica, California. Playboy named her its January 1989 Playmate at 23. Her appearance came during Playboy's polished, high-production 1980s period.
MacLaren has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 35-24-35.
When Playboy ran a nationwide search to mark its 35th anniversary, more than 4,000 hopefuls answered the call—and Fawna MacLaren emerged as the magazine’s selected centerpiece, taking home a $35,000 prize for the commemorative centerfold. That selection did more than fill a milestone issue; it gave MacLaren a platform that quickly translated into international exposure.
Already comfortable with an itinerant modeling life, she had been spotted by Elle while in Paris and moved into European work that ranged from runways in France and Italy to editorial assignments in Germany and location shoots in Morocco. Those years abroad supplied the kind of worldly polish that the cameras later picked up: poised, practiced, and ready for the global pages that would follow.
The centerfold opened doors across Playboy’s international editions—MacLaren’s images ran on covers from the United States to Argentina, Italy, Japan, Greece and Mexico—and she returned to the brand for special projects, including appearances on the “Wet & Wild” home-video series. Those accompaniments kept her more than a single-issue presence and helped maintain the visibility she had earned from the anniversary spotlight.
MacLaren also took small steps into acting, with screen credits that include the feature Dragonfight and the television titles The Cover Girl Murders and Lover’s Leap. While none of those turns reimagined her as a leading-player movie star, they added a measured screen résumé to a career built first on the international model circuit and a high-profile magazine moment.
A Beverly Hills High School graduate who translated early style into an international work, MacLaren’s career is one of tidy contrasts: a California origin, European runways, and a marquee magazine centerfold that together routed a model’s life into both glossy pages and on-screen work. The 35th-anniversary selection remains the hinge of that story—an editorial moment that carried her image around the world.
