Aleshia Brevard (born Alfred Brevard Crenshaw; December 9, 1937 – July 1, 2017) [1] was an American author and actress of stage, screen, and television. She worked as an entertainer, actress, model, Playboy bunny, professor of theater, and author.

Become a Playboy Bunny – which I also did. I’d been liberated to pursue my dreams, one of which was to become a working actress. I worked most of the variety shows of the time, Andy Williams , Leslie Uggams -- and spent a year as a regular on The Red Skelton Show .

After a stint as a Playboy Bunny at the Sunset Strip hutch I broke into television as a regular on The Red Skelton Show. Following that was The Partridge Family, The Dean Martin Show, and Rod Serling’s Night Gallery.

SIDELIGHTS: Aleshia Brevard's life story is a tale of broken marriages, B-movie roles, a stint as a Playboy bunny, and the pursuit of a career in theatre. It is also the story of how a young man from a religious family in rural Tennessee decided to castrate himself on a kitchen table after years of feeling that he could not honestly live as the ...

2017年11月20日 · Following college, she landed some roles in movies and became a Playboy bunny, but returned to Tennessee for modeling work. She then traveled around the country for touring theater companies, and for writing and teaching gigs. She even spent time as a professor at ETSU in the 1990s.

Told with humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood. Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent transitional surgery in Los Angeles in 1962, one of the first such operations in the United States.

2017年11月20日 · While traveling the country as an actress, dancer, model, Playboy bunny, and performer, she never turned her back on her southern roots. She treasured the remote cabin nestled deep in the Appalachian mountains where she shared quiet evenings on the porch with her mother. Aleshia Brevard in ‘The Gingerbread Lady’ (1980).

Aleshia Brevard's journey is a brilliant, gutsy, and insightful look at a life simultaneously marginalized and in the spotlight." --LAMBDA BOOK REPORT "With a courageous, thoughtful, and often laugh-out-loud dish, Brevard shares her experiences as a Playboy Bunny, wife, actress and most importantly-woman."

She also dabbled in modeling and eventually became a Playboy Bunny. [2] Brevard was married three times, had a series of abusive boyfriends, and fended off advances from her co-stars, including Andy Griffith and Anthony Newley.

2018年6月21日 · Brevard had a full and rich life — she was a Playboy Bunny, had parts in movies, played Trudy in an off-Broadway rendition of Steel Magnolias, and was a professor at East Tennessee State for a...