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.
Lisa Dergan’s career was already international before Playboy became part of it. A former high school cheerleader, she began modeling professionally in Japan, where she also learned the language before later studying Japanese at UCLA. That combination of modeling experience, education and comfort in unfamiliar settings would prove useful as her career moved steadily away from still photography and toward television.
Acting provided one of those early transitions. Dergan appeared in Silk Stalkings and Frasier and later took a role in the gladiator adventure The Arena alongside fellow Playmate Karen McDougal. Her screen work demonstrated an ease in front of the camera, but broadcasting ultimately offered the more distinctive direction.
In 2001, Dergan began co-hosting a weekend sports program on KCBS in Los Angeles with veteran broadcaster Jim Hill. FOX Sports Net followed in 2002, where she developed into a sports reporter and interviewer rather than simply a television personality. Her assignments included interviews with Tiger Woods, John Elway and Chuck Liddell and coverage connected with major events such as the Super Bowl, the Kentucky Derby and the U.S. Open.
Her television work remained varied. Dergan co-hosted the USA Network game show Smush with Ken Ober and later appeared with Colin Cowie on the reality wedding competition Race to the Altar. In 2003, modeling returned to the foreground when she became the St. Pauli Girl, joining the beer brand’s long-running tradition of selecting a model as its public face.
Dergan also acquired an unusual place in James Bond lore. In 1999, author Raymond Benson included her as herself in the Playboy-published short story A Midsummer Night’s Doom, in which Bond visits the Playboy Mansion. The appearance gave her a playful crossover between Playboy and one of popular culture’s most durable fictional worlds. Taken together with her work in Japan, acting, game shows and especially sports broadcasting, it reflects a career that repeatedly expanded well beyond the role that first made her widely recognizable.
