Shannon Long

Infobox Playboy Playmate


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name = Shannon Long
issue = October 1988
birthname =
birthplace = Gladstone, Queensland, Australia
birthdate = birth date and age|1969|2|11
bust = 36"
waist = 21"
hips = 32"
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weight = convert|94|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
preceded = Laura Richmond
succeeded = Pia Reyes

Shannon Long (born 11 February 1969 in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian model and actress. She was chosen as "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1988 issue.

Shannon spent her formative years moving around Queensland and up and down the east coast wherever her father could find construction work. By the time she was in her early teens her family had settled in the New South Wales coastal town of Ballina.

Soon after her 16th birthday she moved to Sydney, took up modeling and landed an immediate success as a Playmate in the Australian edition of "Playboy" in September 1985. She was a smash with readers of the Australian edition. Shannon did an encore pictorial in late 1986, and represented Australia in the Playboy International Pageant in 1988.

She caught the eyes of the U.S. "Playboy" editors and became the first ever Australian to appear as a Playmate in the U.S. edition in October 1988.

Her American success led to an unprecedented second centerfold in the Australian edition in December 1988. Australian readers couldn't get enough of her, leading to encore pictorials in 1989 and 1992. She toured the USA in the early 1990s promoting Australian beer.

Shannon returned to Australia in the mid 1990s and wound down her modeling career in favor of becoming a computer specialist while doing occasional glamor modeling for local magazines.

Appearances in "Playboy"

*"Australian Edition September 1985
*"Australian Edition Encore Pictorials November 1986
*"U.S. Edition October 1988
*"Australian Edition July 1988
*"Australian Edition December 1988
*"Australian Edition Encore Pictorials PMOY June 1989
*"Australian Edition Encore Pictorials 1992

Appearances in "Playboy" special editions

*"Playboy's Playmate Review" Vol. 5 June 1989 - pages 84-93.
*"Playboy's Book of Lingerie" Vol. 10 November 1989.
*"Playboy's Girls of Summer '90" August 1990 - pages 43, 63.
*"Playboy's International Playmates" January 1992.
*"Playboy's Book of Lingerie" Vol. 33 September 1993.
*"Playboy's Beauty Queens" August 1994.
*"Playboy's Winter Girls" February 1996.

Appearances in "Playboy" Videos

*"Playboy Playmate DVD Calendar Collection: The '90s (2004)"
*"Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2002 (2001)" (in bonus retrospective featurette on DVD)
*"Playboy: Girls Down Under (2000)"
*"Playboy: Playmate Profile Video Collection Featuring Miss October 1997, 1994, 1991, 1988 (1997) Miss October 1988"
*"Playboy: 21 Playmates Centerfold Collection (1996) Miss October 1988"
*"Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1990 Miss November"

Other Appearances

*"'Represented Australia in the Playboy International Pageant in 1988"

References

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ee also

* List of people in Playboy 1980-1989