List of Playboy Playmates of 1977
The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1977. Playboy magazine named its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
January
Susan Lynn Kiger is an American model and actress. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar and Ken Marcus. She appeared in the cover of Playboy three times: March 1977, November 1977, April 1978.Kiger was the first Playmate to perform in a hardcore sex film, 'Hot Nasties'. After her Playmate designation, she appeared in several other films, including the sex comedy H.O.T.S. alongside fellow Playmate Pamela Bryant, and eventual Playboy model KC Winkler.
February
Star Stowe was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.Stowe at one time dated Gene Simmons. She later married and divorced Peter Maligo. Together they had a son, Michael. After falling from the spotlight and moving to Ft. Lauderdale she fell into prostitution, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
March
Nicki Thomas or Nicki E. Rossine was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.Tritt married Anthony Rossine, and had two children, Michael Anthony and Marissa Nicole. She died September 2, 2009, in Edgewood, Kentucky.
April
Lisa Sohm is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.May
Sheila Mullen is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. Mullen worked as a Bunny at the Los Angeles Playboy Club.June
Virve Reid is a Canadian model of Scottish, English and Estonian descent. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Grant Edwards and Phillip Dixon.July
Sondra Theodore is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. Her Playmate pictorial was the first to include the Data Sheets that Playmates had been filling out since 1959.A former Sunday school teacher, Theodore became the girlfriend of Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner for several years, living alongside him at the Playboy Mansion. She can be seen on the famous Playboy pinball machine alongside Hefner and fellow Playmate Patti McGuire. During this time she sang with the "Singing Playmates".
At age 17, Theodore played the lead role in a local San Bernardino summer youth theatre musical production of Cinderella in 1974. The next year, she represented her native city as Miss Bicentennial. She spent one year at college before heading west to Los Angeles in July 1976 to pursue a career in acting.
August
Julia Lyndon is the pseudonym for an American model. Her given name was Lisa Rome. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Phillip Dixon.Lisa, the sister of actress Sydne Rome, was an equestrienne who had been in training for the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1996 The Playmate Book reported that she was running a restaurant in South America. She died at home in West Los Angeles on August 1, 2019, from an overdose of over-the-counter medications: aspirin, Tylenol and Sudafed. Her remains are interred in Akron, Ohio.
September
Debra Jo Fondren is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1977 issue and Playmate of the Year for 1978. Fondren, who lived in Beaumont, Texas, was discovered on a visit to Las Vegas by photographer Robert Scott Hooper who also photographed her centerfold.Today, Fondren no longer participates in Playboy promotions because they place "too much emphasis on sex."
October
Kristine Winder is the pseudonym of a Canadian model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1977 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. Her pictorial was titled "Invitation to the Dance", with nude shots of her in a dance studio.Winder used a pseudonym because she did not want her father to find out, but the name change did not help. Several families in Vancouver with the Winder last name received obscene phone calls from people across North America looking for "Kristine Winder".