Summer Danielle Altice (born December 23, 1979) is an American fashion model and actress. She was named after Miss USA 1975, Summer Bartholomew.^{[citation needed]}

Altice was born in Fountain Valley, California. Her father is a German-American and her mother is an Italian-American.^{[citation needed]}

She won Young and Modern (YM) magazine's cover girl contest in 1995 plus she was on the cover of YM's November issue that year and subsequently signed with Elite modeling agency before appearing on the cover of GQ as well as men's magazines Maxim and Max. She was ranked number 100 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" in 2002.

Altice played competitive volleyball while attending San Diego State University. She transferred to UCLA in Spring 2000 to pursue her modeling career while continuing her communications studies. Altice was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in August 2000.

One of her earliest film appearances was in the video Wet & Wild: Slippery When Wet, the ninth in the series of popular videos produced by Playboy featuring playmates and water. Her beauty and uninhibited playfulness saw her starring in two further Playboy videos before being cast in the films The Scorpion King, Grind, and the Showtime program ChromiumBlue.com.

Altice has a small tattoo of a dolphin on her lower back, a butterfly tattoo on her neck, as well as a small tattoo on her right wrist.

[edit] Filmography

• Shanghai Kiss
• You, Me and Dupree
• Wedding Crashers
• Grind
• The Scorpion King
• ChromiumBlue.com
• Pretty Cool
• Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle Pie
• Learning to Surf
• Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2002

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

• Summer Altice at Playboy.com
• Summer Altice at the Internet Movie Database
• Summer Altice at Allmovie
• Chromium Blue website
• "Interview: Summer Altice photo", AskMen.com.

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