Corinna Harney

Luck has always been with Corinna Harney, our Playmate of the Year 1992. Born in Bremerhaven, Germany, petite Corinna was raised in Las Vegas on a steady diet of bright lights and big personalities – but far from cardsharp, the young Miss Harney wrote poetry and nursed serious literary ambitions. “I was never quite in sync with society,” admits Corinna, though she loved growing up in Las Vegas. In her teens, she and her friends would hit the Strip after class, goofing off and grubbing at late-night diners. She’d often end up in the desert, watching stars shoot across the vast Nevada sky. “I’d wanted to be a Playmate for years,” says Corinna, who used to sit out there in her car, wishing on those shooting stars. Little did she know that her wish was about to come true. At 20, Corinna was hanging around in Vegas, waiting to turn 21 so she could work at a casino – but in a royal flush, she was named Miss August 1991 and Playmate of the Year 1992, all before her 21st birthday. “I mean, I loved getting to keep the boots I wore in my pictorial,” says Corinna, referencing those boots adorned with leather playing cards. “But becoming Playmate of the Year? That was too beyond!” Post-Playboy, Miss Harney got into acting, with roles on Nash Bridges, CSI and in National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation. These days Harney resides in Los Angeles, but maintains a home in her beloved home state of Nevada. As for her dream man, he’s "rough and tough, fit and funny," and like her old friend, luck, he'll always be on her side. “On a warm, rainy evening, he brings a ladder to my second-story window,” says Corinna, recounting a favorite fantasy. “We escape to the mountains, above the rain, to gaze at the stars.” If you ask us, luck's got nothing to do with it - it's all Corinna Harney.