Reneé Tenison (born December 2, 1968) is an American model, actress, and the first

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selected to be the '' Playboy'' Playmate of the Year (1990).

Personal life and career

Tenison was born in

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. She has three older brothers and an identical twin sister, Rosie, who also works as a model. Rosie and Renee posed in the August 2002 issue of '' Playboy'' together. Tenison appeared as the Playmate of the Month in the November 1989 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine and was subsequently named Playmate of the Year for 1990, the first PMOY of

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descent. In 2001, she was selected as one of the ten sexiest women of the year by the readers of ''Black Men'' magazine. In 2017 at the age of 49 Tenison duplicated her Playmate of the Year cover along with her cohorts

Kimberley Conrad Kimberley Conrad (born Kimberley Conradt; August 6, 1962) was chosen as ''Playboy''s Playmate of the Month in January 1988 and became Playmate of the Year 1989. Conrad was Hugh Hefner's second wife and is mother to two of his four children. In 20 ...

, Candace Collins, Lisa Matthews, Cathy St. George, Charlotte Kemp, and Monique St. Pierre nearly three decades on.

Filmography

Films

Television

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