Lisa Dergan Bio
Lisa Dergan is an American glamour model, television personality, reporter, and actress. Born Lisa Eileen Dergan on August 10, 1970, in Corpus Christi, Texas, she has also been credited as Lisa Dergan Podsednik. Playboy named her its July 1998 Playmate at 27. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Dergan has enhanced breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-24-34.
A former high school cheerleader turned international model, Lisa began her modeling journey in Japan, where she lived and worked while learning the language and later studying Japanese at UCLA. That global awareness - and the discipline that came with it - would later become one of her trademarks.
Her acting roles in "Silk Stalkings", "Frasier", and the gladiator adventure "The Arena" (co-starring fellow Playmate Karen McDougal) showcased her natural camera presence. But it was in sportscasting that Lisa truly found her calling.
In 2001, she landed her breakthrough job co-hosting a weekend sports show on KCBS Los Angeles alongside legendary broadcaster Jim Hill. The audience loved her - smart, warm, and effortlessly knowledgeable - and FOX Sports Net quickly took notice. She joined the network in 2002 and became one of its standout reporters, interviewing icons like Tiger Woods, John Elway, and Chuck Liddell, and covering some of the biggest events in sports: the Super Bowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the U.S. Open.
Lisa didn't limit herself to the sidelines. She co-hosted the USA Network game show Smush with Ken Ober and later the reality wedding competition Race to the Altar with lifestyle guru Colin Cowie. Versatile. Magnetic. Always in command.
And then there's her legendary pop-culture footnote: in 1999, bestselling Bond author Raymond Benson wrote her into the James Bond short story "A Midsummer Night's Doom", published in Playboy. In it, 007 visits the Playboy Mansion - and Lisa Dergan becomes the first real-life woman ever officially crowned a Bond girl. Fictional or not, Bond knew exactly what he was doing.
In 2003, she added another title to her resume: St. Pauli Girl beer spokes-model, a coveted position that cemented her status as an American pin-up icon.
Beyond film, television, modeling, and sportscasting, Lisa Dergan simply represents the very best of what a Playmate can be: ambitious, multidimensional, globally minded, and unforgettable.
