Best known for her role in the 1990s series Baywatch and her appearances in Playboy magazine, Brande Nicole Roderick was born on June 13, 1974, in Novato, California.  In her career, she starred in four erotic movies until landing the role of Leigh Dyer in Baywatch in 2000.  In the same year, she was featured as Playboy's Playmate of the Month, and, eventually, Playmate of the Year, the first Baywatch alumna to be afforded such a distinction.  In 2003, she starred in a Bollywood film Out of Control in a role that was originally intended for fellow Baywatch star and Playboy model Pamela Anderson.

She also has a string of movie and television credits to her name, such as the 2004 comedy Starksy and Hutch, the television series Beverly Hills 90210, and the 2006 horror film Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror.

In 2003, Roderick was cast in yet another reality show, the very first season of The Surreal Life. The show features celebrities who are said to be past their primes and puts them in a Hollywood Hills mansion for two weeks.  As if this were not enough, unforgiving cameras also follow their every move.  In this season, most viewers initially thought Roderick was too whiny for her own good.  She softened up later on, though, and became rather innocuous and even well-liked for being a good sport.  She even won the Survivor-type camping challenge.  It might have something to do with fellow cast member and actress Gabrielle Carteris hogging all the annoyance points for being too vocal about virtually everything.  Side by side, Carteris made Roderick and Survivor nymph Jerri Manthe seem like nice people.  Other highlights of the season includes actor Corey Feldman's wedding to his girlfriend at the season finale with no less than rapper turned evangelist MC Hammer leading the ceremony.







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