Nicole Wood Bio
Nicole Wood is an American Playboy Bunny, glamour model, and actress. She was born on February 4, 1970, in Canton, Ohio. Playboy named her its April 1993 Playmate at 23. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Wood has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-23-34.
Before the centerfold, Wood was already working a familiar route into commercial glamour: at 15 she was a finalist in the Miss Teen New Jersey pageant, she graduated from Cherokee High School in 1988, and she tested herself in more than seventy swimsuit contests around the region. Those early competitions refined her on-camera instincts and kept her in the local pageant circuit long enough to win a centerfold competition that changed the scale of her work.
The Chicago test shoot that followed the contest produced the pictures the magazine ultimately used; the centerfold and accompanying pictorial, titled “Knock Wood,” were photographed by Richard Fegley. Those images became the public pivot from regional pageantry to national exposure and remain a documented credit in her archive of published work.
Wood extended that exposure into the magazine’s ancillary productions and live appearances. She appeared in several Playboy video and special-edition projects — including credits on the Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1994 and Playboy: Wet & Wild VI — and served as captain of the high-energy Playboy X-Treme sports team. By 2004 she was working events as a Playboy Bunny, a practical role that paired promotion with performance.
Off camera she moved into beauty entrepreneurship, founding Unique Face Cosmetics in 2001, and continued to pursue opportunities in modeling and acting while maintaining a disciplined strength-training regimen that the trade profiles recorded at the time. The through-line of Wood’s career is straightforward: pageant polish, published pictorials and video work, and a small-business pivot that used the spotlight as a platform rather than an endpoint.
