{{Short description|American model and actress (1947–2026)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox Playboy Playmate/doc --> | name = Reagan Wilson | image = Reagan Wilson Blood Mania.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Wilson in ''Blood Mania'' (1970) | issue = October 1967 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1947|3|6}} | birth_place = Torrance, California, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2026|3|20|1947|3|6}} | death_place = | height = | preceded = Angela Dorian | succeeded = Kaya Christian | website = }}
'''Reagan Diana Wilson''' (March 6, 1947 – March 20, 2026) was an American model, actress, and businesswoman. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1967 issue, a centerfold of which was taken to the Moon as part of Apollo 12 in 1969. She also had numerous acting roles including in ''Blood Mania'' (1970) and ''Running with the Devil'' (1973). Her participation at a 1968 Men's Day event at the University of Washington was protested by Radical Women.
== Life and career == Wilson was born in Torrance, California, and had a younger brother and sister. All three are of Norwegian descent and moved with their mother to Missoula, Montana after their parents divorced.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=Reagan Wilson, Playboy model whose centrefold was sent to the Moon as a prank on Apollo 12 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2026/04/06/reagan-wilson-model-playboy-moon-apollo-12-space-race/ |url-access=subscription |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=April 6, 2026 |access-date=April 6, 2026 |issn=0307-1235 }}</ref> Reagan attended Roosevelt Elementary School in Santa Monica<ref name="cfm">{{cite web|url=http://centerfoldmemories.com/agent/reagan-wilson/|work=Centerfold Memories|title=Reagan Wilson: October 1967|archive-date=February 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222025342/http://centerfoldmemories.com/agent/reagan-wilson|url-status=dead}}</ref> and studied journalism at the University of Montana.<ref name=":0" /> She began working as a model after relocating to Los Angeles in the 1960s.<ref name=":0" />
Wilson was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1967 issue. Her centerfold, which was photographed by Ron Vogel<ref name=":0" /> and featured her topless on a hay bale,<ref name="Hilck">{{Cite book |last=Hilck |first=Karin |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Lady_Astronauts_Lady_Engineers_and_Naked/-T7EDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq&printsec=frontcover |title=Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies: Women and the American Space Community during the Cold War, 1960s-1980s |date=2019-07-08 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |page=[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Lady_Astronauts_Lady_Engineers_and_Naked/-T7EDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq&pg=PA305&printsec=frontcover 305] |isbn=978-3-11-062982-8 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Fishman |first1=Charles |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/One_Giant_Leap/dlj5DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22reagan+wilson%22+%22hay%22+playboy&pg=PA283&printsec=frontcover |title=One Giant Leap |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-5011-0629-3 |page=283}}</ref> was later photocopied, laminated, given the caption "Preferred Tether Partner",<ref name="Hilck" /> and concealed inside Pete Conrad's Apollo 12 cuff checklist by David Scott, which Conrad discovered on the Moon. Scott also concealed Angela Dorian's centerfold in Conrad's cuff checklist and the centerfolds of Cynthia Myers and Leslie Bianchini in Alan Bean's.<ref name=":0" /> That ''Playboy'' centerfolds went to the Moon did not become public knowledge until the magazine wrote about it for the mission's 25th anniversary in December 1994, although Bean took a photograph of Conrad there featuring his cuff checklist open to Wilson's page.<ref name=":1" />
Following her ''Playboy'' shoot, she modeled in Paris, London, and New York,<ref name=":0" /> and later moved to the last of these.<ref name="cfm" /> In 1968, her appearance at the University of Washington's annual "Men's Day" event was protested by Radical Women, with 450 members including Barbara Winslow storming the stage and chanting lines from the Book of Common Prayer. Winslow attempted to lecture Wilson on the ramifications of ''Playboy''{{'}}s portrayal of women and was promptly ejected from the stage and criticised by ''The Daily of the University of Washington'' and the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Buchanan |first=Paul D. |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Radical_Feminists/NBXHEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Reagan+Wilson%22+%22men's+day%22&pg=PA47&printsec=frontcover |title=Radical Feminists: A Guide to an American Subculture |date=2011-07-25 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-59884-357-6 }}</ref> Winslow wrote in her 2023 book ''Revolutionary Feminists'' that the protest should have been directed at the men who wielded power rather than Wilson.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Winslow |first=Barbara |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Revolutionary_Feminists/8fO-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Reagan+Wilson,+you+are+an+empty+vessel%22&pg=RA2-PT18&printsec=frontcover |title=Revolutionary Feminists: The Women's Liberation Movement in Seattle |date=2023-07-07 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-1-4780-2449-1 }}</ref>
Wilson made her film debut as a body double for Julie Newmar in the 1969 film ''Mackenna's Gold''. She then appeared in the 1970 horror film ''Blood Mania'', which also featured fellow Playmate Vicki Peters, and in the 1973 sexploitation film ''Running with the Devil''. She also appeared as an actress on the television shows ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'', ''The Jack Benny Program'', ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''The Munsters'', ''The Johnny Carson Show'', and ''The Big Valley''. She posed once more for ''Playboy'' for the December 1979 pictorial "Playmates Forever!" before marrying the writer Barry Hornig in 1982 and opening a textile rug company with him in Santa Monica, California. She regularly interacted with her fans on social media before her death on March 20, 2026, at the age of 79.<ref name=":0" />
== Filmography == '''Source:'''<ref name=":0" />
* ''Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In'' * ''The Jack Benny Program'' * ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' * ''The Munsters'' * ''The Johnny Carson Show'' * ''The Big Valley'' * ''Blood Mania'' * ''Running with the Devil'' * ''Mackenna's Gold''
== See also == * List of people in ''Playboy'' 1960–1969
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
== External links == * {{Playmate|1967|Reagan Wilson}} {{subscription}} * {{IMDb name|id=0933999|name=Reagan Wilson}}
{{Playmates of 1967}} {{Authority control}}
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