Linda Kerridge Bio
Linda Kerridge is an Australian-born actress and model. She was born on November 18, 1954 in Wagga Wagga, Australia. Her zodiac sign is scorpio.
In December 1980, Linda Kerridge brought her signature glamour and star appeal to Playboy.
Linda Kerridge has beautiful natural breasts, hypnotic amber eyes, and glossy black hair. With a sensually shaped 33-25-35 frame, she's a true embodiment of Playboy allure.
Linda Kerridge entered Playboy’s December 1980 issue as Hollywood’s newest Marilyn Monroe double, appearing in a pictorial designed around the resemblance that had launched her acting career. The Australian model had recently stepped onto American screens in Fade to Black, playing Marilyn O’Connor, an actress whose platinum curls and classic styling turn her into the living fantasy of an obsessive film lover. Playboy extended that cinematic illusion with glossy photographs that celebrated Kerridge as a modern echo of Monroe while introducing her to readers as a personality in her own right.
Her route to Hollywood had already carried her through several very different creative worlds. Kerridge began modelling in Asia before working in Paris and living in London, where she continued modelling while studying art. After moving to Los Angeles, her striking likeness to Monroe attracted immediate attention from producers and photographers. Acting had not been the original plan, but her appearance opened a door that the film industry was eager to push wider.
Fade to Black made that resemblance central to both character and story. Opposite Dennis Christopher, Kerridge portrayed a woman who seems to have stepped directly out of Hollywood’s golden-age mythology, becoming the object of fascination for a lonely cinephile whose devotion to old movies turns violent. The role required more than physical imitation: Kerridge had to suggest the warmth and vulnerability beneath the carefully arranged blonde fantasy. Her performance became one of the film’s defining images and helped secure its later reputation as a cult psychological horror favourite.
The Playboy feature arrived alongside the film’s release and embraced the comparison without restraint. Styled as Monroe rather than presented as a conventional contemporary model, Kerridge recreated the soft curls, luminous makeup and teasing composure associated with the screen legend. It was an effective piece of early-1980s promotion, but it also revealed the complication that followed her career: the resemblance brought attention while encouraging filmmakers to see her as a duplicate rather than a performer capable of creating a separate identity.
Kerridge gradually moved beyond the Monroe image through roles in Strangers Kiss, Surf II, Mixed Blood, Vicious Lips, Down Twisted and Alien from L.A., working across drama, comedy, crime and science fiction before leaving acting. Her Playboy appearance nevertheless remains the clearest expression of the unusual moment that made her famous. It captured a model standing between imitation and individuality—close enough to revive the glamour of Marilyn Monroe, yet distinctive enough to give that familiar fantasy a cool, contemporary life of its own.
