Angela Melini Bio
Angela Melini is a Vietnamese glamour model, actress, television personality, and entrepreneur. She was born Angela Jane Melini on July 7, 1969, in Saigon, Vietnam. Playboy named her its June 1992 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Melini has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 36-26-35.
Emigrating to the United States in 1975, Melini grew up just outside Olympia, Washington, the child of a Vietnamese mother and an Italian‑American soldier who was killed before her birth. The practicalities of a new life in suburbia — school, part‑time jobs, the small-town rhythms — provided the setting for a story that would later take a decidedly more theatrical turn.
She finished at Timberline High School in 1987 and went on to earn a B.A. in Early Childhood Education from the University of Washington, a credential that sits beside her modeling résumé rather than beneath it. Those classroom instincts would later share space with a very different set of skills: public appearances, on‑camera reporting, and talent scouting.
Melini’s passage into the magazine world has an old‑Hollywood immediacy: she was noticed sitting curbside outside Playboy’s Los Angeles headquarters. That first look led to a centerfold shot by Arny Freytag and a relationship with the brand that stretched beyond a single issue. Over the following decade she appeared in numerous Playboy videos and newsstand specials, worked as a promotional model, served as a feature reporter for Playboy TV and became a familiar presence at the company’s events around the globe.
Her career kept a toe in mainstream entertainment as well; she played Bonnie in the action thriller Silk Degrees and eventually leaned into mentoring and talent discovery, helping to introduce new faces to the industry. Among those she steered forward were future Playmates Destiny Davis and Stacy Fuson. Now based in Las Vegas, Melini still makes select appearances at fan events like Glamourcon, where signing tables and scouting conversations are as much a part of the work as autographs — a reminder that her career has always mixed image-making with the quieter business of spotting potential.
