Danelle Folta Bio 
Danelle Folta is an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Danelle Marie Folta on April 19, 1969, in Hammond, Indiana, she has also been credited as Danelle Folta Kenealy. Playboy named her its April 1995 Playmate at 25. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Folta has natural breasts, hazel eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-24-35.
Folta took an unexpected turn after the centerfold, turning the publicity of magazine pages into a platform for endurance sport. In 1998 she founded Team Playboy X‑treme with the explicit goal of challenging the notion that glamour and grit were mutually exclusive, and two years later she captained the four‑member squad at the 2000 Eco‑Challenge in Borneo. The team faced a multi‑day course of paddling, trekking, climbing, mountain biking and jungle navigation under severe conditions, racing alongside fellow Playmates Jennifer Lavoie and Kalin Olson and former U.S. Marine Corps officer Owen West.
Her pictorial, titled “Perchance to Dream” and shot by Richard Fegley, led into a sustained relationship with the brand; she appeared in Playboy videos and newsstand Special Editions and remained visible in Playboy projects for more than five years after the shoot. Those assignments kept her in the public eye while she expanded the kinds of work she pursued away from still photography.
On screen she shifted between acting and physical work behind the camera. Folta appears in the feature Snow Dogs and carried out stunt work on All About the Benjamins, where she is credited as Danelle Folta Kenealy. Those credits point to a practical, on‑set versatility—performing in front of the camera and taking the falls, rides and choreographed stunts that action production requires.
Taken together, the record beyond the centerfold maps an unusually broad post‑Playboy chapter: international modeling and editorial work followed by on‑screen roles, credited stunt work and a genuine commitment to endurance athletics. Her leadership of Team Playboy X‑treme remains a clear, documented through‑line in a career that moved readily between glamour and the kind of physical testing usually kept off the page.
