Carrie Jean Yazel Bio
Carrie Jean Yazel is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on November 30, 1969, in Huntington Beach, California, and has also been credited as Carrie Yazel, Carrie Steilen, and Carrie Yazel-Steilen. Playboy named her its May 1991 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Yazel has natural breasts, brown eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-24-34.
Photographed by Stephen Wayda, the centerfold captured a relaxed, athletic polish that read as much like a snapshot from the sidelines as it did a studio glamour shot — a combination of ease and polish that helped cement her appeal among readers and in Playboy’s video specials. That same camera-friendly composure translated easily to the magazine’s ancillary outlets, where she appeared in a string of videos and newsstand features throughout the early 1990s.
Before the pages, she was a competitive high-school volleyball player at Los Gatos High School, graduating in 1988, and then relocated to San Diego to pursue broader opportunities. The athletic background never felt staged on camera; instead it gave her a straightforward presence and a way of moving that photographers and producers liked to frame.
Her on-camera work led to small parts in mainstream films and episodic television. She turned up in bit roles in the studio comedies Death Becomes Her and Mr. Baseball and logged guest appearances on shows such as Silk Stalkings and Renegade, credits that kept her visible beyond the magazine gloss without pretending to be a full-time screen career.
Off set, she married writer-director Mark Steilen in 2003 and the couple made their home in Los Feliz. Whether remembered in print, on video, or in modest screen turns, Yazel’s career is the sort of compact, multimedia life many contemporaries quietly shared: a model’s centerfold leading to specialty work, occasional film and TV bits, and a steady presence in the entertainment margins rather than the spotlight’s center.
