Colleen Camp Bio
Colleen Camp is an American Actress and film producer. She was born Colleen Celeste Camp on June 7, 1953, in San Francisco, California. She appeared in Playboy in October 1979 at 26, adding the feature to her public career. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Camp has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 35-27-37.
Colleen Camp entered entertainment through an unusually colourful route. While studying, she trained and performed with macaws at Busch Gardens, appearing in live shows before her work with the birds attracted the attention of a talent agent. Commercials and small television parts followed, leading to early film roles in The Swinging Cheerleaders, Michael Ritchie’s beauty-pageant satire Smile, The Gumball Rally and Game of Death. Her combination of glamour, comic confidence and willingness to embrace eccentric characters soon made her a familiar presence in 1970s cinema.
Camp’s connection with Playboy became especially visible through Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. She portrayed Miss May, one of the Playboy Playmates flown into Vietnam to entertain American troops during the film’s chaotic USO sequence. Much of her additional material was removed from the original 1979 theatrical release, but she appeared more substantially in Apocalypse Now Redux. Playboy also featured Camp in an October 1979 pictorial connected with the film. She appeared as an actress and celebrity pinup rather than as the magazine’s Playmate of the Month.
Television gave Camp another notable first when she originated the role of Kristin Shepard on Dallas in 1979, before Mary Crosby assumed the character and became associated with the famous “Who shot J.R.?” storyline. Camp later displayed her gift for stylish comedy as Yvette, the flirtatious French maid in Clue, and played Sergeant Kathleen Kirkland in Police Academy 2 and Police Academy 4. She also delivered one of her strongest performances as country singer Christy Miller in Peter Bogdanovich’s They All Laughed, appearing alongside her friend Dorothy Stratten. Stratten’s murder shortly after filming cast a lasting shadow over the picture and those who had known her.
Camp continued building an extensive character-acting career through Valley Girl, Wayne’s World, Sliver, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Election, American Hustle and numerous independent productions. In the House episode “Simple Explanation,” first broadcast on April 6, 2009, she played Charlotte Novack opposite Meat Loaf. Camp was married to Paramount executive and producer John Goldwyn from 1986 until 2001, and they have one daughter, writer and producer Emily Goldwyn.
Behind the camera, Camp developed an equally substantial career as a producer. Her credits include The Cream Will Rise, Shattered Image, An American Rhapsody, Knock Knock, Father Stu and a collection of independent films and television projects. That evolution has given her unusual longevity: she moved from 1970s pinup roles to broad comedy, dramatic character work and creative leadership without abandoning the mischievous energy that first distinguished her. Her October 1979 Playboy appearance captured one youthful chapter, but Colleen Camp’s wider career reveals a resourceful Hollywood survivor who understood how to turn visibility into lasting influence.
