K.C. Winkler Bio
K.C. Winkler is an American-born actress and model. She was born on September 15, 1956 in Ontario, California, United States. Her zodiac sign is virgo. She is also known as Karen C. Charboneau.
In September 1989, K.C. Winkler brought her signature glamour and star appeal to Playboy.
K.C. Winkler has beautiful enhanced breasts, sparkling blue eyes, and luminous blond hair. With a perfectly balanced 35-24-35 frame, she's a true embodiment of Playboy allure.
K.C. Winkler’s Playboy story began with the magazine’s nationwide Great Playmate Hunt, organised to select a special model for its twenty-fifth-anniversary issue. She was one of the finalists considered for the honour, although Candy Loving ultimately became the January 1979 Playmate. Winkler did not receive a Playmate of the Month title, but the competition introduced her to Playboy readers and helped establish the poised, camera-ready image that would accompany her subsequent acting and modeling work.
That same period brought her first substantial film role as Cynthia in the 1979 campus comedy H.O.T.S. The picture placed Winkler alongside Playboy Playmates Pamela Jean Bryant and Susan Kiger in a colourful mixture of collegiate mischief and late-1970s glamour. She later appeared as Cheryl in Ron Howard’s Night Shift, sharing the screen with Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton and Shelley Long, and played Vicki in the 1986 action comedy Armed and Dangerous with John Candy and Eugene Levy.
Television gave Winkler a steady run of guest appearances throughout the 1980s. Her credits included Fantasy Island, Dallas, CHiPs, Simon & Simon, The Fall Guy, The Love Boat, Automan, The A-Team and Three’s Company. She also appeared as Donna in Misfits of Science and as a glamorous guest character in Blacke’s Magic, roles that suited the playful, high-energy style of network entertainment during the decade.
Winkler became a familiar daytime presence during the 1987–1988 syndicated revival of High Rollers. Working beside host Wink Martindale and fellow model Crystal Owens, she served as an on-screen assistant throughout the game show’s 185-episode run. The position made good use of her polished presentation and easy television manner while introducing her to an audience beyond films, episodic acting and magazine photography.
A decade after the Great Playmate Hunt, Winkler returned to Playboy for a six-page celebrity pictorial in the September 1989 issue. By then, she was presented not simply as a contest finalist but as an actress and television personality with years of screen experience behind her. The feature captured the confident, glossy glamour of her era while completing an unusually long Playboy journey—from an anniversary search in 1979 to a pictorial published on her own terms ten years later.
