Nicole Marie Lenz Bio
Nicole Marie Lenz is an American actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on January 24, 1980, in Cleveland, Ohio, and has also been credited as Nicole Lenz. Playboy named her its March 2000 Playmate at 20. Her appearance came in the 2000s, as Playboy's print tradition began to share space with an expanding online presence.
Lenz has natural breasts, green eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 32-24-32.
Nicole Marie Lenz came to Los Angeles from Cleveland with little certainty that modeling would become a serious career. Back home, she had worked for her father’s contracting business, doing hands-on jobs that included laying tile and hanging drywall. After roughly a year of modeling, she decided to try Playboy’s Playmate Search, later admitting that she had not previously believed she was good enough to pursue modeling professionally.
Playboy gave Lenz the confidence to push further. Her appearance in the magazine’s Millennium-era lineup was styled as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe, whose place in Playboy history Lenz openly admired. She kept photographs of Monroe in her room and said she had seen all of her films. The reference was therefore more than a visual conceit for the pictorial; it connected directly with one of Lenz’s own strongest influences.
Her career soon moved well beyond Playboy. A feature in W photographed by Mario Sorrenti helped lead to an international contract with Elite Model Management. Lenz subsequently appeared in fashion editorials for Vogue Russia and Vogue Italia, with the latter photographed by David LaChapelle. She also appeared on the covers of French Playboy, Italian Max and American Health, and in 2007 FHM featured her as “The New Bardot.”
Acting became another significant part of her work. Lenz made her film debut in Confidence in 2003 and later appeared in Seeing Other People, Toxic, Fanboys and My Sister’s Keeper. On television, she appeared in a 2008 episode of CSI: NY. Her music-video credits also included Elton John’s “This Train Don’t Stop There Anymore” and Duran Duran’s “What Happens Tomorrow.”
Lenz had joked that if Paris and Milan did not call, she would settle for a film career; in practice, she ended up working in both fashion and film. Within a few years of leaving Cleveland, she had moved from her family’s contracting business to Elite, Vogue editorials, international magazine covers and Hollywood productions. Playboy was the early turning point, but the career that followed was unusually broad, combining glamour, high fashion, music videos and acting rather than staying within a single branch of modeling.
