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Shannon Long
Playboy centerfold appearance
October 1988
Preceded by	Laura Richmond
Succeeded by	Pia Reyes
Personal details
Born	11 February 1969 (1969-02-11) (age 40) Gladstone, Queensland, Australia
Measurements	Bust: 36" Waist: 21" Hips: 32"
Height	5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
Weight	94 lb (43 kg; 6.7 st)

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.Shannon did an encore pictorial in late 1986, and represented Australia in the Playboy International Pageant in 1988.

She became the first ever Australian to appear as a Playmate in the U.S. edition in October 1988.

Her American success led to a second centerfold in the Australian edition in December 1988; she became the local "Playmate of the Year" in 1989 and appeared in another pictorial in 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] References

• Shannon Long at Playboy.com
• Shannon Long at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] See also

• List of people in Playboy 1980-1989

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