Dana Cannon Bio
Dana Cannon is an American-born adult model and porn actress. She was born as Dana Kunath on June 28, 1959 in Huntington Beach, California, United States. Her zodiac sign is cancer. She is also known as Kathleen Cameron, Bridgette Money, or Bridget Monet.
In May 1984, Dana Cannon brought her distinctive allure and established star power to Playboy.
Dana Cannon has big natural breasts, soulful brown eyes, and rich brown hair. With a voluptuous 38-26-37 frame, she's a true embodiment of Playboy allure.
Dana Cannon was an American adult model and film actress who appeared in Playboy in 1984 after establishing herself under the better-known screen name Bridgette Monet. Her career belonged to the early-1980s period when Playboy occasionally looked beyond conventional glamour modeling to women already familiar from adult cinema. Cannon fit that crossover particularly well: she had begun as a nude model, moved into adult films around the start of the decade, and by the time Playboy featured her had already developed a recognizable screen identity.
Her professional work began with modeling before expanding into short films for Swedish Erotica in 1980 and 1981. She subsequently moved into feature productions, with I Like to Watch in 1982 among the titles associated with her early career. Working primarily as Bridgette Monet, she became part of the generation of performers who helped give early-1980s adult cinema a more polished, personality-driven style. She also appeared in Girls That Love Girls in 1984, alongside several other recognizable performers of the period.
For Playboy, she adopted the name Dana Cannon, creating a distinct magazine identity separate from Bridgette Monet. Contemporary references describe her pictorial as “Playing Doctor,” with Playboy presenting her as a college-oriented adult-film personality rather than simply reproducing her existing screen persona. The feature was photographed by longtime Playboy photographer Ken Marcus and stands out as a particularly direct example of the magazine acknowledging the increasingly visible crossover between adult cinema and mainstream men’s-magazine glamour during the 1980s. Sources differ on whether the original U.S. appearance was in March or May 1984, although the Dana Cannon profile currently lists May 1984.
Cannon’s career under the Bridgette Monet name remained concentrated largely in the first half of the decade. Unlike performers who built long careers around constant publicity, she eventually moved away from the spotlight, leaving behind a relatively compact body of work strongly associated with adult cinema’s early video era. That makes her Playboy feature especially useful in understanding her public image: it captured her while she was an active performer, yet presented her through the glossy visual language and playful editorial framing of Playboy rather than through the conventions of her film work.
Dana Cannon occupies an interesting corner of Playboy history precisely because the name represented only one facet of an already established performer. As Bridgette Monet she belonged to adult cinema; as Dana Cannon she entered Playboy’s carefully styled world of 1980s glamour. That brief crossing of identities gives her appearance its character—a snapshot of a moment when the boundaries between adult entertainment, glamour photography and mainstream men’s publishing were becoming increasingly porous.
