Erika Eleniak

Erika Eleniak
Erika Eleniak
	Eleniak in Los Angeles, California; on October 1, 2011
Born	Erika Maya Eleniak; September 29, 1969 (age 55); Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupations	Actress; model;
Years active	1982–present
Playboy centerfold appearance
	July 1989
Preceded by	Tawnni Cable
Succeeded by	Gianna Amore
Personal details
Height	5 ft 6 in (168 cm)
Spouses	; Philip Goglia (m. 1998; div. 1998) ; Roch Daigle (m. 2005; div. 2007)
Children	1
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Erika Eleniak (born September 29, 1969) is an American-Canadian actress, Playboy Playmate, and model known for her role in Baywatch as Shauni McClain. Her film debut was in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). She starred in the films The Blob (1988), Under Siege (1992), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993).

Early life

Erika Eleniak was born in Glendale, California.^[1] Her father, Dale Alan Eleniak, is of Ukrainian descent and her mother, Iris Maya (Neggo) Arnold is of Estonian and German descent. Eleniak's paternal great-grandfather, Wasyl Eleniak, was one of the first pioneer Ukrainian immigrants to settle in Canada.^[2]

Career

Eleniak's first feature-film role was at age 12, in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as the girl kissed by Elliott in the classroom scene. Her 10-year-old costar, Henry Thomas, told People magazine that he disliked filming the scene: “When I had to kiss the girl, I had to do it two times! I don’t like girls."^[3]

In 1988 she appeared as Vicki De Soto, a victim of the creature in the horror film The Blob, which was a remake of the 1958 film of the same name.

Eleniak appeared in the July 1989 issue of Playboy in a pictorial with a nautical theme. That same year, she began a recurring role in the TV series Charles in Charge as Charles's girlfriend Stephanie Curtis, and also won a role on Baywatch as female lead Shauni McClain, which she played from 1989 to 1992. She also played Carrie, the high-school girlfriend of Jesse (John Stamos), in "One Last Kiss", the November 16, 1990 episode of Full House.

In 1992, Eleniak returned to film acting, playing a Playboy Playmate hired to perform a striptease for the captain of a U.S. Navy battleship in Under Siege. In the film, she is described as "Miss July 1989"—the month that Eleniak was Playmate of the Month in real life.

She had a starring role as Elly May Clampett in the screen adaptation of The Beverly Hillbillies in 1993. The next year, she starred in the Dennis Hopper-directed romantic comedy film Chasers with William McNamara. Eleniak shot another movie with McNamara, Girl in the Cadillac (1995), and starred as identical twins in the interactive 1995 video game Panic in the Park. She continued to make more independent films until 2003.^{[citation needed]}

Eleniak appeared on the reality television series The Real Gilligan's Island in June 2005.^[4]

Eleniak has suffered from weight issues. At one point, she was underweight due to an eating disorder and was once hospitalized for laxative abuse.^[5] By 2006, she was overweight and participated in the fourth season of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club.

In 2006, she appeared on '80s Movie and Music Fest Cafe, a British comedy podcast on iTunes, in which she discussed her career with presenters Ross Dyer and Julian Bayes. She gave a lighthearted view of Baywatch and her challenge during filming of Celebrity Fit Club.^[6]

Personal life

Eleniak was once engaged to her Baywatch co-star Billy Warlock, who had played her love interest on the show, as well.^[7] Eleniak married bodybuilder Philip Goglia on May 22, 1998, but after just six months, the marriage ended in divorce.^[8]^[9] After filming Snowbound in 2001 in Calgary, Alberta, Eleniak became enamored of the city. She began dating Roch Daigle, a key grip who worked on the set. She had wanted to leave Los Angeles as she found commuting to and from Telluride, Colorado, difficult. She purchased a home in Calgary, where Daigle lived.^[10] The two eventually married. Eleniak became pregnant in 2005, but six and a half weeks into her term, the pregnancy was discovered to be ectopic, which required emergency surgery, and ended in a miscarriage.^{[citation needed]} Eleniak later became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter.^[11]

Filmography

Film


Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Pretty Girl
1983	Imps*	Brooke Shields	released 2009
1988	Broken Angel	Jaime Coburn	TV movie
1988	The Blob	Vicki De Soto
1989	Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier	Shauni McClain	TV movie
1990	Daughter of the Streets	Jennifer	TV movie
1992	Under Siege	Jordan Tate
1993	The Beverly Hillbillies	Elly May Clampett
1994	Chasers	Seaman Toni Johnson
1995	Girl in the Cadillac	Amanda 'Mandy' Baker
1995	A Pyromaniac's Love Story	Stephanie Potts
1996	Bordello of Blood	Katherine Verdoux
1997	Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave	Det. Eileen Burke	TV movie
1997	She's So Lovely	Playmate
1998	Captive	Samantha Hoffman
	One Hot Summer Night	Kelly Moore Brooks	TV movie
	The Pandora Project	Wendy Lane
	Charades	Monica
1999	Love Stinks	Gina (voice)
	Stealth Fighter	Erin Mitchell
	Final Voyage	Gloria Franklin
2000	The Opponent	Patty Sullivan
2001	Vegas, City of Dreams	Katherine Garrett
2001	Snowbound	Barbara Cates
2002	Second to Die	Sara Morgan Bratchett Scucello
	Christmas Rush	Catherine 'Cat' Morgan	TV movie
	He Sees You When You're Sleeping	Annie Campbell	TV movie
	Shakedown	Julie Hayes	Video
2003	Betrayal	Emily Shaw
2003	The Librarians	Sandi Clark
2004	Brilliant	Ricky Smith
	Fatal Lessons: The Good Teacher	Victoria Paige	TV movie
	Dracula 3000	Aurora Ash
2005	Caught in the Headlights	Kate Parker
2005	Fatal Reunion	Jessica Hartley Landers	TV movie
2006	Absolute Zero	Bryn	TV movie
2010	Changing Hands	Woman in the Park
2012	Holiday Spin	Roxy	TV movie
	Meant to Be	Linda Dickson
	Changing Hands Feature	-
2017	Boone: The Bounty Hunter	Herself
2019	Cor Values	Veronica MacDougall

Television


Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Silver Spoons	Samantha	Episode: "Rumors Are Flying"
1987	Still the Beaver	Lynn	Episode: "I Had It All"
1988	Second Chance	Monica	Episode: "The Front"
1989	Charles in Charge	Stephanie Curtis	Recurring Cast: Season 4
1989–92	Baywatch	Shauni McClain	Main Cast: Season 1-3
1990	Full House	Carrie Fowler	Episode: "One Last Kiss"
1998	Brooklyn South	Officer Christine Bannon	Recurring Cast
1999	Fantasy Island	Sybil Hammond	Episode: "Innocent" & "The Real Thing"
1999	Aftershock: Earthquake in New York	Jillian Parnell	Episode: "Part 1 & 2"
2005	The Real Gilligan's Island	Ginger - Green Team	Main Cast: Season 2
2006	Celebrity Fit Club	Herself	Main Cast: Season 4
2008	Germany's Next Topmodel	Herself	Episode: "Episode 10"; Reality
2010	CSI: Miami	Claire Peterson	Episode: "See No Evil"
2010	Desperate Housewives	Barbara Fine	Episode: "A Humiliating Business"
2023	Meet the Richardsons	Herself	Episode: "Episode #4.8"

Video games


Year	Title	Role
1995	Panic in the Park	Janie/Jamie

References

^ "Erika Eleniak's Official Bio (archived)". Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
^ "Wasyl Eleniak". Alberta Settlement. Government of Canada. Archived from the original on May 18, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
^ "Revealing His Secrets at Last".
^ Wheat, Alynda (June 6, 2005). "Tonight's Best TV". CNN.
^ Entertainment Tonight, May 24, 2006
^ "80's Movie and Music Fest Cafe podcast". iTunes. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
^ "Days of Our Lives Stars Get Married". Archived from the original on October 13, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
^ "Erika Eleniak;Philip Goglia (& Wife)" Archived 2015-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. Getty Images. August 11, 1999. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
^ "Erika is married!". ErikaEleniak.info. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
^ "Official FAQ (2013 archive)". Archived from the original on April 20, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
^ "What the Hell Did I Get Into". Celebrity Fit Club. Season 4. Episode 1. August 6, 2006. Vh1.