Cheryl Rixon (born 12 October 1954 in

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) is an Australian actress and model. She was chosen as the December 1977 Pet Of The Month for '' Penthouse'' and two years later as Pet of the Year in 1979. Rixon now lives in the US and designs jewelry which she sells under the name of 'Royal Order'. She is married to club owner Art Davis with whom she has two sons, Dylan and Luke Davis.

Early career

In the early 1970s, Rixon was twice a finalist in the annual Miss West Coast bikini beauty pageant, staged in Perth each January. She later appeared as a game show assistant on local TV. After appearing in obscure low-budget sex-comedy film '' Plugg'' (1975), shot in Perth, Rixon moved interstate to

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and acted in several television roles for

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. She played three different roles during the final episodes of the Crawford production '' Homicide''. Starting in mid-1975 Rixon also began making appearances in Crawford Production's sex-comedy soap opera '' The Box''. Playing television starlet Angela O'Malley, she made several appearances in the series. She left ''The Box'' towards the end of 1975, but returned for a three-month stint starting in February 1976. Rixon subsequently found fame in the US as Penthouse magazine's December 1977 Pet Of The Month and in October 1979,she was chosen as the Pet Of The Year in a televised pageant held at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her pictorial followed the following month in the November 1979 issue, where she graced the cover as well. In July 1980 she kicked off New York Mayor

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's "Festival of Fragrances". She was again showcased with a ten-page spread in Penthouse in 1980, and posed for Oui magazine in November 1982,where she was also on the cover. During this period she appeared in films such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. Rixon did not receive the Penthouse prizes that had been promised to her and in 1985 took the magazine’s publisher to the

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, which ruled that she was entitled to them. The judgment was later affirmed on appeal.

Partial filmography

Television

* '' The Box'' (1975–1976) as Angela O’Malley * '' Homicide'' (1976–1977) 3 Guest roles Wendy / Belinda / Prostitute * '' Telethon '79'' (1979) (TV special) Herself * '' Penthouse Pet Of The Year 1980'' (1980) (TV special US) Herself

Film

* '' Plugg'' (1975) as Kelli Kelly *

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(1978) as Extra * ''

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'' (1979) as Annie * ''

'' (1980) as Margaret * '' I Like to Play Games'' (1995) as Sean * ''

Dark Secrets ''Dark Secrets'' is a 1923 American silent feature drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Dorothy Dalton.

'' (1996) as Philipa * '' Scorpio Men On Prozac'' (2010, as Cheryl Rixon Davis) as Mrs. Everyman

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