Ashley Cox

{{short description|American model and actress|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | caption = | name = Ashley Cox | issue = December 1977 | birth_name = | birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.<ref name=deckingly /> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|11|15|mf=y}} | death_date = | death_place = | website = }}

'''Ashley Cox''' (born November 15, 1956)<ref name=deckingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=cox%2C+ashley&limit=0|title=Playmate data|accessdate=8 December 2010}}</ref> is an American model and actress.

==Career== Cox was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hugh Hefner|author2=Dave Hickey|title=Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds|publisher=Chronicle Books|year=2008|isbn=978-0-8118-6091-8}}</ref> Cox was one of Hugh Hefner's "Personal Playmates", a term Hefner designated women whom he dated seriously.<ref>{{cite book|last=Steven Watts|title=Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American dream|publisher=Wiley|year=2008|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mrplayboyhughhef0000watt/page/282 282]|isbn=978-0-471-69059-7|url=https://archive.org/details/mrplayboyhughhef0000watt/page/282}}</ref>

Cox appeared in films such as ''Logan's Run'' (1976),<ref>She acted out the "timid girl" who, after "the City's" seals were broken, first tentatively touched the grayed whiskers of Peter Ustinov, as "the old man," in the final sequence, and then smiled to the others in the crowd. Many of the indoor sequences of the film were shot in her native Texas.</ref> ''Drive-In'' (1976),<ref>{{cite book|last=Michael Weldon|title=The Psychotronic Video Guide|publisher=Macmillan|year=1996|pages=175|isbn=978-0-312-13149-4}}</ref> ''The Nude Bomb'' (1980), ''King of the Mountain'' (1981), ''Looker'' (1981),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Jay Robert |author-link=Jay Robert Nash |last2=Nash |first2=Stanley Ralph |last3=Ross |first3=Stanley Ralph |author3-link=Stanley Ralph Ross |title=The Motion Picture Guide ... Annual |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aYgqAAAAYAAJ |publisher=Cinebooks |year=1987|isbn=9780933997004}}</ref> and ''Night Shift'' (1982).

== Personal life == She has two children and, as she told ''The Playboy Book'' in 1996:

{{blockquote|I've been married several times, and I'm still looking for my knight in shining armor. Men think they want a fantasy girl, but when they meet somebody who's been a centerfold and dated a couple of well-known actors, I think that overwhelms them.}}

== Filmography ==

=== Film === {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ !Year !Title !Role !Notes |- |1976 |''Drive-In'' |Mary Louise | |- |1976 |''Logan's Run'' |Timid Girl | |- |1980 |''The Nude Bomb'' |Model #1 | |- |1981 |''King of the Mountain'' |Elaine | |- |1981 |''Looker'' |Candy | |- |1982 |''Night Shift'' |Jenny Lynn | |}

=== Television === {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Title !Role !Notes |- |1979 |''The Dukes of Hazzard'' |Garbade's Girl |Episode: "Road Pirates" |- |1980 |''Vegas'' |Loyal Rutledge |Episode: "The Lido Girls" |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{playmate|ashley-cox|Ashley Cox}} * {{IMDb name|id=0184915|name=Ashley Cox}}

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