{{Short description|American model}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2010}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox Playboy Playmate/doc --> |image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE - magazine covers are expressly forbidden --> |imagesize = 150px |caption = |name = Ashlyn Martin (Laura Lynn Hale) |issue = April 1964 |birth_name = Laura Lynn Hale |birth_place = London, England<ref name=pigs>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=martin%2C+ashlyn&limit=0|title=Playmate data|accessdate=4 February 2010}}</ref> |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1946|3|20}} |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1991|10|24|1946|3|20}} |height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}}<ref name=pigs/> |preceded = Nancy Scott |succeeded = Terri Kimball }} '''Ashlyn Martin (Laura Lynn Hale)''' (20 March 1946 – 24 October 1991)<ref name=pigs>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=martin%2C+ashlyn&limit=0|title=Playmate data|accessdate=4 February 2010}}</ref> was the stage name of '''Laura Lynn Hale''',<ref name=pigs/> a model and actress who was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1964 issue. She was born in London, England.
==Career== Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar and Mario Casilli.<ref name=pigs/> She also appeared in the July 1963 issue of ''Playboy'' in The Bunnies, a pictorial, as well as in a photograph dated 1960 (along with Playmate/Bunny Patti Reynolds) in The Bunny Years (page 56) by Kathryn Leigh Scott. In the January 1966 Issue of Playboy she appeared in the Playboy Mansion Pictorial along with Allison Parks (starting on page 105). In ''The Playmate Book'', Hugh Hefner says that Laura's pseudonym was inspired by a character in the Ernest Hemingway novel ''The Sun Also Rises'', most likely Brett Ashley.
She also worked as a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club.
Laura died 24 October 1991 at the age of 45 from suicide.
==Filmography== * ''Blood Feast'' (1963) .... Marcy * ''Beach Party'' (1963) .... Surfer (uncredited) * ''Burke's Law'' – "Who Killed Alex Debbs?" (1963) (as Laura Lynn Hale) .... 2nd Deb Girl * ''Muscle Beach Party'' (1964) .... Beach girl
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{playmate|ashlyn-martin|Ashlyn Martin}} *{{IMDb name|id=0551943|name=Ashlyn Martin}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Ashlyn}} Category:1946 births Category:1991 deaths Category:Actresses from Dayton, Ohio Category:1960s Playboy Playmates Category:21st-century American women