Paz de la Huerta Bio
Paz de la Huerta is an American Actress and fashion model. She was born Maria de la Paz Elizabeth SofÃa Adriana de la Huerta on September 3, 1984, in New York City, New York. She appeared in Playboy in December 2012 at 28, adding the feature to her public career. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.
de la Huerta has natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-24-35.
Paz de la Huerta brings a dangerous, art-house sensuality to the Playboy archive — raw, theatrical, unpredictable, and drenched in the kind of downtown glamour that never feels polished for mass approval. Her beauty is not clean or easy. It is smoky, wounded, defiant, and cinematic, the kind of presence that seems to belong equally to underground film, late-night Manhattan, and a lens that prefers mystery over perfection.
Her screen career has always carried that edge. Paz appeared in films including The Cider House Rules, A Walk to Remember, Choke, Enter the Void, and Nurse 3D, building a filmography that moved between prestige drama, cult cinema, romantic tragedy, surreal provocation, and horror. She was never the conventional ingénue. Even in smaller roles, she brought a charged physicality and emotional strangeness that made her difficult to forget.
Her most widely recognized television role came as Lucy Danziger in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. As Nucky Thompson’s lover, Paz gave the series a figure of vintage decadence: fragile, seductive, volatile, and painfully human beneath the costumes and champagne. She seemed perfectly suited to the show’s world of power, desire, and corruption, bringing old-fashioned glamour with a modern sense of danger underneath.
De la Huerta’s career has also been marked by a willingness to embrace nudity and sexual intensity on screen. In several of her films, she approached exposure not simply as decoration, but as part of the character’s emotional and psychological landscape. That fearlessness made her a natural fit for the more artistic side of Playboy — a world where the body could be photographed not only as fantasy, but as mood, provocation, and performance.
Her Playboy moment arrived with the January/February 2013 issue, where she appeared as the cover model in a nude pictorial photographed by Mario Sorrenti. The pairing made perfect sense. Sorrenti’s lens, known for intimacy and sensual atmosphere, captured Paz not as a glossy pin-up but as something more cinematic: a woman of shadows, texture, instinct, and dangerous softness. The result placed her firmly within Playboy’s tradition of actresses whose appeal comes from mystery as much as beauty.
What makes Paz de la Huerta memorable is the refusal to become safe. She gives the camera a woman who is sensual, strange, vulnerable, and untamed — less Hollywood product than living noir. In the Playboy archive, Paz stands as an art-house muse: erotic, unpredictable, wounded, glamorous, and alive with the kind of electricity that cannot be manufactured.
