Deanna Merryman

Deanna Merryman (born 1972) is an American actress, glamor model, and fitness model.

Deanna Merryman was born in 1972.

Her father was a clergyman from Virginia.

Merryman attended high school with Leeann Tweeden.

Merryman worked as an exotic dancer in the mid-1990s.

She danced at PT's Show Club in 1992 in San Antonio, Texas, where she was bitten by a patron.

She was transported to a hospital where she received treatment for puncture wounds.

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 Hawaiian Tropic.

The next year, she was featured on the cover of Iron Man Magazine.

Merryman was featured in Playboy 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.

Merryman worked as a fitness model.

She starred, credited as Deana, on the documentary soap drama Desperately Seeking Stardom in 1999.

This garnered her roles on Baywatch and Veronica's Closet.

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 lingerie, 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 The Bold and the Beautiful.

She successfully landed a role during Desperately Seeking Stardom, on the television show Baywatch.

Merryman subsequently gained a part on the television series Veronica's Closet.

In 2000, Merryman was selected for a photo shoot by American photographer Mark Daughn; her pictures were used to advertise the Internet company Bomis.

She first met Gordon in 2000 while she was employed in Palm Beach, Florida, at a Neiman Marcus 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 was featured in a pictorial in the October 2003 issue of Playboy magazine.

Daughn's photographs of Merryman also appeared in Mystique Magazine in January 2003, alongside models including: Aria Giovanni, Sunny Leone, 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 Charlotte, North Carolina; she was introduced to the audience by Ron Jeremy.

Merryman starred in the 2004 comedy film Busty Cops alongside Nikki Nova, Jesse Jane, 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 South Beach, Florida, 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 makeup artist.

Merryman had a relationship with stock car racing driver Jeff Gordon.