List of Playboy Playmates of 1981

{{Short description|none}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2020}} __NOTOC__ The following is a list of '''Playboy Playmates of 1981'''. ''Playboy'' magazine names their Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.

==January== {{Main|Karen Price}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Karen Price | image = | imagesize = 150px | caption = | birth_name = | birth_place = Pasadena, California, U.S.<ref name=jankingly /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1960|7|17}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}}<ref name=jankingly /> }}

'''Karen Elaina Price''' (born July 17, 1960)<ref name=jankingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=price%2C+karen+elaine&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=November 9, 2010}}</ref> is an American model, stunt woman and television producer. She is sometimes credited as '''Karen Castoldi'''. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1981. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.<ref name=jankingly />

After she became a Playmate, Price started acting, but soon switched to performing stunts for over two dozen films, including ''Leonard Part 6'' (1987), ''Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment'' (1985), and ''The Golden Child'' (1986). After a hiatus, she began a new career as an associate producer of television programs such as ''Amazing Vacation Homes'' (2004) and ''Amazing Babies'' (2005).

Price made a cameo appearance of sorts in the early Mel Gibson film ''The Road Warrior'' – her centerfold is pasted onto a tailfin of Gyro Captain's Benson gyrocopter. {{clear}}

==February== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Vicki Lasseter | birth_name = | birth_place = Iola, Kansas, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1960|2|19}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}} }}

'''Vicki Lynn Lasseter''' (born February 19, 1960, in Iola, Kansas) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. {{clear}}

==March== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Kymberly Herrin | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1957|10|2|mf=y}}<ref name=markingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=herrin%2C+kymberly+ellen&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=December 27, 2010}}</ref> | birth_place = Santa Barbara County, California, U.S.<ref name=markingly /> | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|10|28|1957|10|2|mf=y}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Kymberly Herrin, Playboy Playmate From 'Ghostbusters', Dead at 65 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/kymberly-herrin-playboy-playmate-ghostbusters-dead-65-1760037 |access-date=16 November 2022 |publisher=Newsweek |date=16 November 2022}}</ref> | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}<ref name=markingly /> }}

'''Kymberly Ellen Herrin''' (October 2, 1957 – October 28, 2022) was an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.<ref name=markingly /> Herrin had several small roles in films of the 1980s, such as ''Ghostbusters'' and ''Romancing the Stone'', as well as the ZZ Top videos "Legs" and “Sleeping Bag.”

==April== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Lorraine Michaels | birth_name = | birth_place = Canterbury, England | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|1|23|mf=y}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}} }}

'''Lorraine Michaels''' (born January 23, 1958, in Canterbury, England) is an English model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month in for the April 1981 issue. {{clear}}

==May== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = 150px | caption = | name = Gina Goldberg | birth_name = Tiina Virenius | birth_place = Turku, Finland | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|6|30}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}} }}

'''Gina Goldberg''' (born '''Tiina Virenius''' June 30, 1959 in Turku) is a Finnish model, actress and singer. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1981 issue. {{clear}}

==June== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Cathy Larmouth | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_place = Torrance, California, U.S.<ref name=wekinglypigs6 /> | birth_date = {{birth date|1953|7|15|mf=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2007|1|4|1953|7|15}}<ref name= wekinglypigs6 /> | height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}}<ref name= wekinglypigs6 /> }}

'''Cathy Larmouth''' (July 15, 1953 – January 4, 2007<ref name= wekinglypigs6 />) was an American model who was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.<ref name= wekinglypigs6 >{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=larmouth%2C+cathy&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=January 22, 2009}}</ref> A year after her centerfold, she appeared as a contestant on ''The Joker's Wild'' winning several games.

Larmouth died on January 4, 2007, of a heart attack at the age of 53, after a period of declining health.<ref name="Obit">{{cite web|url=http://www.mail-archive.com/pml1@yahoogroups.com/msg15710.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030104543/http://www.mail-archive.com/pml1@yahoogroups.com/msg15710.html|archive-date=30 October 2008|title=Cathy Larmouth – R.I.P.|date=6 Jan 2008|website=Yahoo Groups}}</ref> {{clear}}

==July== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Heidi Sorenson | image = | imagesize = 150px | caption = | birth_name = | birth_place = Vancouver, Canada | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|8|5}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}} }}

'''Heidi Sorenson''' (born in Vancouver, British Columbia on August 5, 1960) is a Canadian model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1981 issue.

She was in the 1985 vampire horror film ''Fright Night'' as well as the 1985 comedy ''Spies Like Us'' and the 1987 comedy Roxanne.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814888/|title=Heidi Sorenson|website=IMDb}}</ref>

==August== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image = | imagesize = | caption = | name = Debbie Boostrom | birth_name = | birth_place = Peoria, Illinois, U.S. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1955|6|23|mf=y}}<ref name=augkingly /> | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2008|7|29|1955|6|23}}<ref name="lifeinlegacy.com">{{cite web |title=Week ending August 2, 2008 |url=http://lifeinlegacy.com/display.php?weekof=2008-08-02#D9810 |website=Life in Legacy |access-date=June 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131202312/http://lifeinlegacy.com/display.php?weekof=2008-08-02#D9810 |archive-date=January 31, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | death_place = Florida, U.S.<ref name="lifeinlegacy.com"/> | height = {{height|ft=5|in=4}}<ref name=augkingly /> | website = }}

'''Debbie Boostrom''' (born June 23, 1955, Peoria, Illinois, d. July 29, 2008) was an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli while she was living in Florida.<ref name=augkingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=boostrom%2C+debbie&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=December 27, 2010}}</ref> Boostrom subsequently married and relocated to Kansas. Following the end of the marriage she moved to Florida to design jewelry<ref name=pboct08>{{cite journal|periodical=Playboy|publisher=Playboy|title=Playmate News|volume=55|date=October 2008|pages=123–124}}</ref> and act in infomercials.<ref name="lifeinlegacy.com"/> On July 29, 2008, she was found dead in her apartment of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<ref name="lifeinlegacy.com"/> She had reportedly been suffering from terminal breast cancer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Obits: "Bo" – "Bt" |url=http://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-bo.htm#BoostromDeborah |website=Caskets On Parade |access-date=June 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426190332/http://daggy.name/cop/bkofdead/obits-bo.htm |archive-date=April 26, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> {{clear}}

==September== {{Other people|Susan Smith}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image =  | imagesize = | caption = | name = Susan Smith | birth_name = | birth_place = Beloit, Wisconsin, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1959|1|14}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=8}} }} '''Susan M. Smith''' (born January 14, 1959, in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus and Robert Scott Hooper.

Susan first appeared in ''Playboy'' in the February 1979 pictorial "The Girls of Las Vegas." She also "wrestled" Andy Kaufman for the "intergender championship of the world" for a February 1982 layout, and did occasional ring announcing in the World Wrestling Federation during the mid-1990s. {{clear}}

==October==

{{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Kelly Tough | image = | imagesize = 150px | caption = | birth_name = | birth_place = Vancouver, Canada<ref name=octkingly /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1961|12|16}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=7}}<ref name=octkingly /> }}

'''Kelly Ann Tough''' (born December 16, 1961, in Vancouver, British Columbia)<ref name=octkingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=tough%2C+kelly+ann&limit=0|title=Playmate listing|access-date=March 15, 2009}}</ref> is a Canadian model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.<ref name=octkingly />

==November== {{Main|Shannon Tweed}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | image = Shannon_Tweed_2007.jpg  | imagesize = | caption = Shannon Tweed at the 2nd Annual Night of 1000 Stars. Ritual Supper Club, Hollywood, California | name = Shannon Tweed | birth_name = Shannon Lee Tweed | birth_place = St. John's,<br />Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada<ref name=novkingly /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1957|3|10}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}<ref name=novkingly /> | pmoy-year = 1982 | pmoy-preceded = Terri Welles | pmoy-succeeded = Marianne Gravatte }}

'''Shannon Lee Tweed''' (born March 10, 1957)<ref name=novkingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=tweed%2C+shannon+lee&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=December 27, 2010}}</ref> is a Canadian actress and model. One of the most successful actresses of mainstream erotica,<ref>Green, Phillip. ''Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood''. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998:170</ref> she is identified with the genre of the erotic thriller. Tweed currently lives with her husband Gene Simmons of Kiss and they have two children. {{clear}}

==December== {{Infobox Playboy Playmate  | name = Patricia Farinelli | birth_name = | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.<ref name=deckingly /> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1960|3|18}} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}}<ref name=deckingly /> }}

'''Patricia''' "'''Patti'''" '''Farinelli''' (born March 18, 1960, in Los Angeles, California),<ref name=deckingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=farinelli%2C+patricia&limit=0|title=Playmate data|access-date=December 27, 2010}}</ref> is an Italian-American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.<ref name=deckingly />

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