Lillian Müller

Lillian Müller
Müller in 2000
Playboy centerfold appearance
August 1975
Preceded byLynn Schiller
Succeeded byMesina Miller
Playboy Playmate of the Year
1976
Preceded byMarilyn Lange
Succeeded byPatti McGuire
Personal details
Born (1951-08-19) 19 August 1951 (age 73)
Grimstad, Norway[1]
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1]
Official website

Lillian Müller (born 19 August 1951[2]) is a Norwegian model and an actress in motion pictures and television. She was born in Grimstad, Norway.[1]

Early life

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Müller grew up in Fevik. From the age of 11 to 15 she lived in an orphanage. As an 18-year-old, she participated in Miss Norway and finished as the runner-up. She repeated this result in Miss International. She attended Kvitsund Gymnas in Kviteseid for two years, and Hornnes upper secondary school [no] in Hornnes. She then travelled to London where she attended the London Academy of Modelling.

Career

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A "Page Three Girl" five times, her first appearance was in January 1974. Müller achieved her major breakthrough after being spotted by Suze Randall, who photographed her Playboy cover and shot her Playmate pictorial (the centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker). Müller appeared in the magazine as Playmate of the Month in August 1975, and was named Playmate of the Year in 1976. She appeared on the cover of Playboy nine times between 1975 and 1999.[3]

Müller also appeared in Van Halen's music video "Hot for Teacher" as the physical education teacher.[4][5] In 1978, she portrayed Rod Stewart's love interest in his video "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?".[6]

She is sometimes credited as Inga Anderssen, Lillian Mueller, Yulis Revel, Yuliis Ruval, Yulis Ruval or Yullis Ruval.

In the 1990s, she became a published author of a self-help book and her autobiography. In 2010, she was awarded the title of PETA's "Sexiest Vegetarian Over 50". She is also a personal health consultant and a public speaker.[3] She was a juror for the final of Frøken Norge 2011.

Filmography

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Notable TV guest appearances

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In the bulleted list, all appearances as Yuliis Ruval:

In 2010, she was also featured in a Norwegian television show about Norwegian women having success in Hollywood, the show was titled Ja, vi elsker Hollywood! (Yes, we love Hollywood!)[7]

In 2012, she appeared in season 8 of Skal vi danse?, the Norwegian version of Dancing with the Stars,[3] being partnered with Glenn Jørgen Sandaker. The same year, she appeared in season 2, episode 3 of Norwegian talk show I kveld med YLVIS [Tonight with Ylvis].

Personal life

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She was in a relationship with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner between 1976 and 1977,[8] and has also been romantically linked to actor Tom Selleck.[6] She has a daughter, born around 1991.[6] As of 2020, she has never married.[3] She is a practitioner of veganism.[3]

Publications

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  • Müller, Lillian (1995). Feel Great, be Beautiful Over 40!. Los Angeles: General Publishing Group. ISBN 9781881649618. OCLC 33230786.
  • Müller, Lillian; Benkow, Bjørn (1998). Usminket historien om Lillian Müller, et norsk barnehjemsbarn, som er blitt at av verdens største sexsymboler [The unadorned story of Lillian Müller, a Norwegian orphanage child, who has become one of the world's biggest sex symbols] (in Norwegian Bokmål). Oslo: LibriArte. ISBN 9788244502894. OCLC 1028395927.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "UChicago". Retrieved 14 January 2009.
  2. ^ Fanelli, Damian (14 February 2012). "Teacher from Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" Video Looking Good at 60". Guitar World. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e Rosenthal, Nicole (22 December 2020). "What '80s Video Vixen Lillian Muller Is Doing Today". Grunge. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  4. ^ "'Hot for Teacher' Star Surfaces after Band's Grammy Buzz - the 54th Grammy Awards® on Yahoo! Music". Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
  5. ^ "IMDB cast list". IMDb. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  6. ^ a b c "Lillian Muller: Star of Van Halen's 'Hot for Teacher' Reveals Her Identity After 25 Years". International Business Times. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  7. ^ Holmlund, Jan Thomas; Lundervold, Linn Kongsli (20 December 2009). "Vurderer nytt Playboy-cover" [Considering New Playboy Cover]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 22 June 2017.
  8. ^ Rodriguez, Karla (16 February 2022). "Hugh Hefner's Romances: His Wives and Girlfriends Through the Years". US Magazine. Retrieved 9 July 2024.

Further reading

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