Layla Harvest Roberts Bio
Layla Harvest Roberts is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on October 22, 1974, in Kealakekua, Hawaii, and has also been credited as Layla Roberts. Playboy named her its October 1997 Playmate at 22. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Roberts has natural breasts, brown eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-24-36.
Discovered in the humblest of places—a supermarket aisle—Roberts’s route into professional modeling reads like a late‑’90s fairy tale of chance and timing: an Elite scout, competing offers from Ford and Elite, and a sudden transfer from high‑school cheer routines at Beverly Hills High to test shoots and agency meetings. That early shift from local visibility to agency attention set the tone for a career that moved quickly between continents and formats.
She spent the first chapter of that career in Paris, where campaign work and glossy editorial pages followed: advertising for L’Oréal and appearances in magazines such as GQ, FHM and Maxim. After returning to Los Angeles she became a familiar presence in Playboy beyond the centerfold—her pictorial was photographed by Stephen Wayda, and she later appeared in multiple Playboy videos and the Book of Lingerie special editions that extended the magazine’s photography into new markets.
Roberts moved into screen work while keeping one foot in modeling. Her screen credits include the features Armageddon (1998), Beowulf (1999) and Red Letters (2000), along with guest spots on Baywatch and talk appearances such as The Howard Stern Show. She also turned up in music‑video work, notably in Aerosmith’s music video for “Hole in My Soul”. Off camera she prepared for a physically demanding career—studying martial arts and maintaining skills in riding, skiing and skydiving that suited both shoots and auditions.
Her personal life has been quietly public: Roberts became a mother in 2003 and later married John Hilinski. The record of her work—pages that played to glossy international tastes, videos that circulated beyond print, and small but steady film and television credits—marks a late‑1990s model who translated a scouting‑moment serendipity into a cross‑platform career that balanced advertising, editorial and the occasional step onto the big screen.
