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Deanna Merryman (born 1972) is an American actress, glamor model, and fitness model. She was part of ''Playboy's Great Lingerie Model Search'' in 1997 and was a contestant in the Miss Hawaiian Tropic beauty pageant in 1998; later becoming a model for
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. The next year, she was featured on the cover of '' Iron Man Magazine''. She starred, credited as Deana, on the documentary soap drama ''Desperately Seeking Stardom'' in 1999. This garnered her roles on ''
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'' and ''
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''. Merryman was featured in a pictorial in the October 2003 issue of ''
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'' magazine.


Early life

Deanna Merryman was born in 1972. Her father was a clergyman from
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. Merryman attended high school with Leeann Tweeden. Merryman worked as an
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in the mid-1990s. She danced at PT's Show Club in 1992 in
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, where she was bitten by a patron. She was transported to a hospital where she received treatment for puncture wounds.


Acting and modeling career

Merryman was featured in ''
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'' magazine in 1997 in ''Playboy's Great Lingerie Model Search''. She was featured in a pictorial in 1998 in a ''Celebrity Sleuth''. In 1998 Merryman was a contestant in the Miss Hawaiian Tropic beauty pageant. She later became a model for
Hawaiian Tropic Hawaiian Tropic is an American brand of suntan lotion. Hawaiian Tropic was founded by Ron Rice in 1969. Rice became the largest private manufacturer of sun care products in the United States, until Hawaiian Tropic was acquired by Playtex Prod ...
. Merryman worked as a fitness model. She was featured on the cover of '' Iron Man Magazine'' in 1999. She starred on the documentary soap drama ''Desperately Seeking Stardom'' in 1999. Broadcast on the ITV network, the program featured six individuals living in a house in California and documented their attempts to become successful actors in Los Angeles. During this time attempting to gain a foothold in the acting industry, Merryman worked simultaneously as a model for
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, and a waitress, and was featured in ''Playboy''. The show chronicled her audition process for a horror film, and a role in the television soap opera ''
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''. She successfully landed a role during ''Desperately Seeking Stardom'', on the television show ''
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''. Merryman subsequently gained a part on the television series ''
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''. In 2000, Merryman was selected for a photo shoot by American photographer Mark Daughn; her pictures were used to advertise the Internet company
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. Daughn's photographs of Merryman also appeared in ''Mystique Magazine'' in January 2003, alongside models including:
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,
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, Lisa Marie Scott, Natasha Yi, and Kalin Olson. She was featured in the book ''Mystique: Models of Mystique'' in the same year, photographed by Daughn. Merryman posed nude in the October 2003 ''Playboy'' issue, and was photographed for the publication by Daughn. In May 2004, Merryman appeared onstage at the "Porn Star Ball" at the Uptown Cabaret in
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; she was introduced to the audience by
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. Merryman starred in the 2004 comedy film ''Busty Cops'' alongside Nikki Nova,
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, Katie James, Sunny Leone and Seana Ryan. She again appeared in a ''Celebrity Sleuth'' pictorial in its October 2004 issue. She was photographed by Sam T'Ang for ''Beach Babes'' calendar in 2005, and by Daughn for the ''Mystique'' calendar published the same year. In 2006, Merryman moved from Los Angeles, California and hosted a party in
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, at Club Deep which was sponsored by FireStar Film Works and Phunhauz Ent. In 2011 she resided in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she worked as a
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.


Personal life

Merryman had a relationship with stock car racing driver
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. She first met Gordon in 2000 while she was employed in Palm Beach, Florida, at a
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store in a mall where she advised customers about cosmetics products. Merryman did not recognize the race-car driver at their first meeting, though her friends were excited to meet him during the same encounter. Initially Merryman turned down Gordon's request to take her out for lunch. One year after their initial encounter, they began a relationship. They were romantically-linked for 11 months. Merryman and Gordon vacationed together in Saint-Jean, Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean in January 2003 to celebrate the
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. This relationship caused difficulty for his then-ongoing marriage to Brooke Sealy. Sealy discovered Gordon's relationship with Merryman and subsequently divorced the race-car driver. Gordon's wife, who also went by the name Jennifer Brooke Gordon, cited Merryman by name in her divorce papers with the racecar driver. Merryman was featured in the October 2003 issue of ''
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'' magazine, where she was interviewed about her relationship with Gordon. Merryman stated that Gordon had confided in her: "He got married when he was 23 and has been on the racetrack since he was a kid. He used to tell me all the time he never had a chance to have fun." She reflected on what she had learned after her period of time with Gordon, saying in the future she would avoid relationships both with men of his occupation and those who were married. Gordon did not comment on Merryman's 2003 appearance in the magazine.


Filmography


Film


Television


See also

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