Linn Thomas Bio
January 21, 1976 / Aquarius / Age 50
Linn Thomas is an American-born Penthouse model, nude model, exotic dancer, and prominent porn actress, born Donna Lynn Evans on January 21, 1976 in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Throughout her modeling career, she has also appeared as Lynn Thomas.
Linn Thomas was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in October 2000, stepping into the spotlight at 24 years old. With her statuesque 34-25-35 figure, charming brown eyes, silky black hair, and natural breasts, Linn combines maturity and spontaneity, creating a presence that feels both bold and inviting.
Linn Thomas brings a rare kind of magazine history with her, the sort that makes a centerfold feel like more than a single appearance. Her October 2000 Penthouse feature carries a polished, crossover charge: elegant, exotic, and already touched by the glow of another famous men’s-magazine stage. She was not arriving as a mystery discovery. She was arriving with a résumé the camera already respected.
Her look comes from a striking mix of worlds. Her father, of Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and Italian heritage, met her Vietnamese mother while stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam War. After her parents divorced when she was five, Linn and her older sister were raised by their mother, who worked as a manicurist. That background gives her glamour a layered quality, something more complex than simple pin-up prettiness. She began modeling at eighteen, and by the time she reached Penthouse, she had already learned how to carry herself in front of a lens with cool, practiced control.
Named Penthouse Pet of the Month for October 2000 under the name Linn Thomas, she had previously been Playboy’s Playmate of the Month for May 1997, making her the first model to appear as a centerfold in both Playboy and Penthouse. She also appeared in several Playboy videos and special editions, modeled for Perfect 10, High Society, and Danni’s Hard Drive, and later appeared with Victoria Zdrok in Michael Ninn’s 2003 erotic film Temptation. Beyond modeling, she graduated from Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach in 1994, later earned an accelerated BFA magna cum laude, toured Canada and America as a feature dancer, and acted in several adult films.
For Penthouse, Linn Thomas stands as a genuine crossover figure: Playmate, Pet, dancer, actress, and educated beauty with a quietly formidable presence. Her appeal is not just in the milestone, though the milestone matters. It is in the way she carried that history into the frame — poised, composed, and fully aware that very few women could claim the same place in men’s-magazine lore.
