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{{Short description|British model (born 1960)}}
{{About||the British actress|Ann Michelle|the British singer|Leanne Mitchell}}
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{{Infobox Playboy Playmate <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Playboy Playmate/doc]] -->
| name        = Lee Ann Michelle
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| issue       = February 1979
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| birth_place = [[Surrey]], England<ref name=listing />
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1960|3|17}}
| death_date  = 
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| height      = {{height|ft=5|in=4}}<ref name=listing />
| preceded    = [[Candy Loving]]
| succeeded   = [[Denise McConnell]]
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'''Lee Ann Michelle''' (born 17 March 1960)<ref name=listing>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Adatebrowse&key=1979&limit=0|title=Playmate listing|accessdate=January 11, 2010}}</ref> is an English model and actress. She was chosen as ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine's [[Playboy Playmate|Playmate of the Month]] for the February 1979 issue. Her [[centerfold]] was photographed by [[Mario Casilli]].<ref name=listing /> She is the first Playmate to have been born in the 1960s.

She was born in  [[Surrey, England]]. Her real name is Carol Needham<ref>{{cite web|title=Carol Needham On Playboy And Page 3: How A Legend Was Made|website=Anorak|date= 6 December 2010|url=https://www.anorak.co.uk/267281/madame-arcati/carol-needham-on-playboy-and-page-3-how-a-legend-was-made.html|access-date=17 May 2011}}</ref> and she was called Carol earlier in her career, including when she posed topless for the newspapers ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' and ''[[Daily Mirror]]''. Her debut was at the age of 16<ref name=People>{{cite news|last1=Bain|first1=Charlie|last2=Brown|first2=David|title=25 Years On. The Sex Kittens Who Blazed a Trail in a Braless New World|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/25+years+on...the+sex+kittens+who+blazed+a+trail+in+a+bra-less+new...-a061154395|newspaper=The People|location=London, England|date=21 July 1996|via=The Free Library}}</ref> in the 7 January 1977 edition of The Sun.

In the 1979 film ''Seven'' she had an uncredited role playing Sybill.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1157366/|title=Carol Needham|website=IMDb}}</ref>

Needham later married and co-founded a modelling agency called Needham and Hanson Management.<ref name=People/>

==See also==
* [[List of people in Playboy 1970–1979|List of people in ''Playboy'' 1970–1979]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{playmate|lee-michelle|Lee Ann Michelle}}

{{playmates of 1979}}

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[[Category:1960 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1970s Playboy Playmates]]
[[Category:Actresses from Surrey]]
[[Category:Models from Surrey]]


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