{{short description|American model and actress}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = India Allen | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = <!--See WP:BLPPRIVACY before adding birth names/dates--> | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1965}}<!--See WP:BLPPRIVACY before adding birth names/dates--> | birth_place = Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. | occupation = model, actress | module = {{Infobox Playboy Playmate | embed = yes | name = <!-- leave blank --> | issue = December 1987 | preceded = Pamela Stein | succeeded = Kimberley Conrad | pmoy-year = 1988 | pmoy-preceded = Donna Edmondson | pmoy-succeeded = Kimberley Conrad | height = {{height|ft=5|in=11}} }} }}
'''India Allen''' (born 1965) is an American actress and model. Allen appeared as a centerfold in the December 1987 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine{{r|Mr. Skin 2005}} and was Playmate of the Year in 1988.
== Career == Allen was initially encouraged by her mother when she turned eighteen to pursue modeling and to try out for Playboy, but she was not interested. The suggestion came up again a few years later when her casting agent sent her to do a small role in a short film parody of Beverly Hills Cop II, in a role as a Playmate in the Playboy Mansion West scene. On the set of the film, Allen met Monique St. Pierre, Playboy's Playmate of the Year in 1979. Allen was surprised when one of the film's producers mentioned that St. Pierre was a Playmate and the two became friends. After looking through Allen's portfolio of modeling assignments, St. Pierre took her to Playboy's West Coast photo studios on Sunset Boulevard for test shots.<ref name="Playboy Plus">{{cite web |title=India Allen |url=http://plus.playboy.com/gallery/10742/india-allen-playmate-of-the-month/ |work=Playboy Plus |access-date=December 30, 2013 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
After her first pictorial, Allen continued to act and also appeared in a series of ''Playboy'' videos.
== Personal life == Allen was born in 1965 in Portsmouth, Virginia.<ref name="Mr. Skin 2005">{{cite book |author1=Mr. Skin |title=Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The {{nowrap|A-to-Z Guide}} to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked |date=2005 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-312-33144-3 |page=9 |language=en |url=https://archive.org/details/mrskinsskincyclo0000skin_y5g3/page/n27/mode/1up |url-access=registration |via=the Internet Archive}}</ref> In the early 1980s she was married to her Ball State University college beau. In September 1988 she was married for a short time to American sports broadcaster Bill Macatee.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/alan-peppard/20100801-Lonesome-Dove-actors-to-4774.ece |title='Lonesome Dove' actors to reunite at autism benefit |last=Peppard |first=Alan |website=Dallas Morning News |department=GuideLive |date=August 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006093022/http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/alan-peppard/20100801-Lonesome-Dove-actors-to-4774.ece |archive-date=October 6, 2014}}</ref> In 1996, Allen was a witness in the civil trial of O. J. Simpson<ref name="Baynes 1997">{{cite journal |last1=Baynes |first1=Leonard |title=A Time to Kill, the O.J. Simpson Trials, and Storytelling to Juries |journal=Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review |date=1997 |volume=17 |issue=3 |at=p. 566, note 90 |url=https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/elr/vol17/iss3/3 |format=PDF |issn=1536-5751}}</ref> and testified that she had seen Simpson strike his then-wife Nicole Brown Simpson in 1983 outside a veterinarian's office where Allen worked.<ref name="Waxman 1996">{{cite news |last1=Waxman |first1=Sharon |title=Testimony Taking its Toll on Simpson's Credibility |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/12/07/testimony-taking-its-toll-on-simpsons-credibility/acc25268-8e84-460d-b9b5-c5934807cad9/ |access-date=November 2, 2025 |work=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |date=December 7, 1996 |language=en |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name="Vermeulen 1996">{{cite news |last1=Vermeulen |first1=Terri |title=O.J.'s friends contradict his testimony |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/12/03/OJs-friends-contradict-his-testimony/8501849589200/ |access-date=November 2, 2025 |publisher=United Press International |date=December 3, 1996 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="CNN 1996">{{cite news |author1=<!--anonymous author(s)--> |title=Cowlings testimony contradicts Simpson |url=https://www.cnn.com/US/9612/03/simpson.case.late/index.html |access-date=November 2, 2025 |publisher=CNN |date=December 3, 1996}}</ref>
==Filmography== * ''The Force'' (1994) * ''Silk Degrees'' (1994) * ''Seduce Me: Pamela Principle 2'' (1994) * ''Wild Cactus'' (1993) * ''Round Numbers'' (1992)
==See also== * List of people in Playboy 1980–1989
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Playmate|india-allen|India Allen}} * {{IMDb name|id=0020586| name = India Allen}}
{{Playmates of 1987}} {{PMOYs}}
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