Susan Gabrielson Bio
January 11, 1968 / Capricorn / Age 58
Susan Gabrielson is an American-born Penthouse model, glamour model, and dancer, born on January 11, 1968 in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Susan Gabrielson was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in June 1986, stepping into the spotlight at just 18 years old. With her statuesque 36-23-35 figure, seductive blue eyes, honey blond hair, and natural breasts, Susan radiates a fresh, playful energy — the kind of youthful allure that feels fearless, spontaneous, and impossible to ignore.
She arrives in a frame like a memory you want to revisit—an economy of motion that reads as both statement and whisper. Susan Gabrielson carried into Penthouse the kind of elegance that feels edited down to its most deliberate line: athletic poise softened by a patient sensuality. Photographed by Dieter Schmidt, she offered more than an image; she offered a mood, the kind that lingers when the lights go low.
There is a confident restraint to her camera presence, the result of a life shaped by rehearsal and intention. Portland-born, she moved through performance with a dancer’s economy—every limb familiar with purpose, every pause chosen. The portraits suggest effortlessness, yet behind that ease lies the discipline of someone molded by years of training, a body both graceful and striking, accustomed to translating movement into stillness.
Her story is one of journeys and quiet ambition. A ballet teacher spotted the impulse that would steer her early life: dance as an identity. By her early twenties she had traveled the world through her art, performing in cities far from home and refining a style that balanced strength with delicacy. She treasured the private rhythms of life—slow mornings, daydreams, solitude—and held to the belief that dance should reflect living rather than swallow it. Inspired by artists who moved between stage and screen, she entertained the idea of bringing that same emotional depth to film, and she shared her world with a fellow performer, finding intimacy in the parallel steps of two creative lives.
For Penthouse readers of the mid-’80s she became a refined fantasy: a woman in motion who chose her moments and her company with care. Susan Gabrielson remains less an exhibition and more a vignette—an image of modern glamour that privileges restraint, craft, and the small, private luxuries of a life lived with quiet intensity.
