Dree Hemingway Bio
Dree Hemingway is an American actress, glamour and nude model. Born Dree Louise Crisman on December 4, 1987, in Sun Valley, Idaho, she has also been credited as Dree Louise Hemingway. Playboy named her its March 2016 Playmate at 28. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
Hemingway has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 32-23-35.
Dree Hemingway entered modeling with a formidable family name but built her own credentials on international runways. She made her major catwalk debut for Givenchy in Paris in 2009, followed by Calvin Klein in New York and an opening slot for Topshop in London. Campaigns for Gianfranco Ferré and Salvatore Ferragamo followed, alongside work for Gucci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Valentino, H&M, Chanel and Paco Rabanne. Her editorials extended to Harper’s Bazaar, i-D, W, Numéro and several international editions of Vogue.
Acting soon became an equally serious pursuit. Hemingway took her first leading film role in director Sean Baker’s Starlet, playing Jane in the 2012 independent drama. The film’s ensemble received the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award, and Hemingway continued working largely in independent cinema with Listen Up Philip, While We’re Young, The People Garden and Live Cargo.
Playboy placed Hemingway at the center of one of its most conspicuous editorial experiments. After decades in which nudity had been fundamental to the magazine’s visual identity, the March 2016 issue introduced its new policy eliminating full-frontal nudity. Photographed by Angelo Pennetta, Hemingway became the first Playmate presented under those rules, immediately following Kristy Garett, the final nude Playmate of the preceding format.
There was also a family connection to Playboy. Hemingway is the daughter of actress Mariel Hemingway and the great-granddaughter of novelist Ernest Hemingway; Mariel had appeared on a Playboy cover in 1982. Dree’s selection therefore made her a second-generation Playboy model, although her own feature arrived in circumstances very different from those surrounding her mother’s appearance three decades earlier.
Her March pictorial belonged to a broader redesign of Playboy that attempted to reposition the magazine for a changing media environment while preserving the Playmate tradition itself. The experiment proved temporary: Playboy restored nudity in 2017. Hemingway nevertheless retains a singular place in the archive as the first Playmate photographed for the non-nude era, while continuing an established career that had already moved comfortably between high fashion and independent film.
