Maria Checa Bio
Maria Checa is a Colombian glamour model, artist, and actress. She was born on July 29, 1970, in Bogota, Colombia, and has also been credited as Maria Che. Playboy named her its August 1994 Playmate at 24. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Checa has natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 32-23-33.
Trained as a visual artist, Maria Checa studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and at the New World School of the Arts, a background that remained visible in the way she framed herself for the camera. Her pictorial work continued to reflect an interest in composition and texture: the centerfold that followed was shot by Richard Fegley, and she first surfaced in the pages in Playboy’s 40th Anniversary issue—appearances that sat alongside a practising studio life in painting, drawing and photography.
Playboy assignments were only one strand of a broader commercial career. She returned for a string of special-edition shoots and the magazine’s video projects, appeared in several international editions (including Turkey, France, Australia and Brazil), and was featured in promotional calendars such as the Hollywood Sportsbook release. Those projects kept her visible in both print and motion formats across multiple markets.
Checa also crossed into genre film work. Her principal screen credit is the 1999 sequel From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, in which she appears as Lupe opposite Raymond Cruz, a modest turn that extended her on-camera résumé beyond modeling into acted roles.
Her public life has included moments outside the arts. In 2008 she was named in an SEC civil complaint tied to an insider-trading investigation involving a former boyfriend; the filing alleged she benefited from improper stock tips, though she was not criminally charged. In later years she moved away from the entertainment hubs and has been reported to live in Greensboro, North Carolina. Taken together, those facts—art-school training, recurring editorial and video work, a small film credit and a later civil suit—make for a career that resists a single, tidy headline.
