Pia Zadora Bio
May 4, 1954 / Taurus / Age 71
Pia Zadora is an American-born Penthouse model, model, actress, and singer, born Pia Alfreda Schipani on May 4, 1954 in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
Pia Zadora was a Penthouse Pornstar and featured model in October 1983. With her statuesque 33-22-34 figure, charming brown eyes, honey blond hair, and natural breasts, Pia expresses confident glamour — elegant, expressive, and fully in command of allure.
There is an electric contradiction that makes the room tilt: a woman who moves between marquee lights and glossy pages as if switching gowns. Pia Zadora arrived with that delicious imbalance—part cinema, part nightclub, part scandal—an irresistible punctuation in any conversation about glamour and provocation. She has always been the kind of figure who asks you to be intrigued and then rewards your curiosity.
On camera she is unsettlingly composed, the kind of presence that reads both intimate and practiced. Petite in frame with a doll-like beauty, she balances a voice that can flirt with mischief one moment and slide into sultry melancholy the next. Comfortable under a spotlight and in front of lenses, she carries herself with a confidence that suggests performance and persona are two edges of the same polished blade.
Her early work threaded through film and Broadway, where small roles and stage turns prefaced a public emergence shaped as much by image as by performance. Music claimed a second stage: she recorded albums that showcased silky vocals and earned a cult following, particularly in Europe, where her blend of pop and jazz found eager ears. In the 1980s she crossed into Penthouse, a move that blurred Hollywood star power with adult-page magnetism and underscored a career of sharp contrasts—Golden Globe winner and Razzie recipient, charting singer and tabloid headline, ingénue and bombshell. Pia refused neat categories: part entertainer, part provocateur, always her own creation.
For Penthouse she is a distilled example of what the magazine celebrates: a woman who breaks rules, who turns desire into agency, and who refuses to apologize for living vividly in the public eye. Hers is a portrait of reinvention—daring, dazzling, and unapologetically alive. She remains a glittering, mischievous presence, equal parts glamour and provocation, and forever an invitation to be intrigued.
