Editing Renee Tenison

{{Short description|American actress (born 1968)}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Renee Tenison
| birth_place        = [[Caldwell, Idaho]]<ref name=wekinglypigs />
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1968|12|02}}
| relatives          = [[Rosie Tenison]] (twin sister)
| module             = {{Infobox Playboy Playmate
  | child          = yes <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Playboy Playmate/doc]] -->
  | issue          = November 1989
  | preceded       = [[Karen Foster (model)|Karen Foster]]
  | succeeded      = [[Petra Verkaik]]
  | pmoy-year      = 1990
  | pmoy-preceded  = [[Kimberley Conrad]]
  | pmoy-succeeded = [[Lisa Matthews]]
  | height         = 5 ft 6 in<ref name=wekinglypigs />
  }}
}}

'''Reneé Tenison''' (born December 2, 1968) is an American model, actress, and the first [[African-American]] selected to be the ''[[Playboy]]'' [[Playmate of the Year]] (1990).

== Personal life and career ==

Tenison was born in [[Caldwell, Idaho]].<ref name=wekinglypigs>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Adatebrowse&key=1989&limit=0|title=Playmate listing|access-date=9 March 2009}}</ref> She has three older brothers and an identical twin sister, [[Rosie Tenison|Rosie]], who also works as a model. Rosie and Renee posed in the August 2002 issue of ''[[Playboy]]'' together.

Tenison appeared as the [[Playboy Playmate|Playmate of the Month]] in the November 1989 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine and was subsequently named Playmate of the Year for 1990, the first PMOY of [[African American]] descent. In 2001, she was selected as one of the ten sexiest women of the year by the readers of ''Black Men'' magazine.
In May 2017, at the age of 48, Tenison duplicated her Playmate of the Year cover along with her cohorts [[Kimberley Conrad]], [[Candace Collins]], [[Lisa Matthews]], [[Cathy St. George]], [[Charlotte Kemp (model)|Charlotte Kemp]], and [[Monique St. Pierre]] nearly three decades on.<ref name="Playboy Cover Retrospective Three Decades On">{{Cite web |url=https://www.boredpanda.com/playmates-recreate-covers-playboy-magazine-hugh-hefner/ |title=7 Playboy's Playmates Recreate Their Own Magazine Covers Around 30 Years Later |last=n/a |first=Iveta |website=Bored Panda |date=7 June 2017 |access-date=2017-12-18}}</ref>

==Filmography==

===Films===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable"| Notes
|-
| [[1991 in film|1991]]
| ''[[Shout (film)|Shout]]''
| Girl in Bar
|
|-
| [[1993 in film|1993]]
| ''[[CB4]]''
| Twin
|
|-
| [[2000 in film|2000]]
| ''[[Nutty Professor II: The Klumps]]''
| Dog Owner
| uncredited
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable"| Notes

|-
|rowspan="2"| [[1991 in film|1991]]
|rowspan="4"| ''[[Married... with Children]]''
| Macadamia
| "Route 666: Part 2"
|-
| Topsy
| "Lookin' for a Desk in All the Wrong Places"
|-
|rowspan="2"| [[1996 in film|1996]]
|rowspan="2"| Marla
| "Spring Break: Part 2"
|-
| "Torch Song Duet"
|-
| [[1991 in film|1991]]
|rowspan="2"| ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]''
|rowspan="2"| Katie
| "Guess Who's Coming to Marry?"
|-
| [[1996 in film|1996]]
| "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Part 2"
|-
|rowspan="4"| [[1995 in film|1995]]
| ''[[Living Single]]''
| Christina
| "Space Invaders"
|-
| ''[[The Crew (1995 TV series)|The Crew]]''
| 
| "Bar Mitzvah Boy"
|-
| ''[[Family Matters]]''
| Tawny
| "Teacher's Pet"
|-
| ''[[Martin (TV series)|Martin]]''
| Ebony
| "Housekeeper from Hell"
|-
| [[1996 in film|1996]]
| ''[[The Jamie Foxx Show]]''
| Gwen
| "Who's Da Man?"
|-
|rowspan="2"| [[1997 in film|1997]]
| ''[[Renegade (TV series)|Renegade]]''
| Roxanne
| "Sex, Lies and Activewear"
|-
| ''[[Malcolm & Eddie]]''
| Renee
| "Lockdown"
|-
|rowspan="4"| [[1998 in film|1998]]
| ''[[Veronica's Closet]]''
| Dakota
| "Veronica's All Nighter"
|-
| ''[[Mike Hammer, Private Eye]]''
| {{n/a}}
| "A New Leaf: Part 1" (as Renée Tenison)
|-
| ''[[V.I.P. (American TV series)|V.I.P.]]''
| Donna Fabre
| "Vallery of the Dolls"
|-
|rowspan="2"| ''[[Mortal Kombat: Conquest]]''
|rowspan="2"|Sora
| "Quan Chi"
|-
|rowspan="3"| [[1999 in film|1999]]
| "Flawed Victory"
|-
| ''[[L.A. Heat (TV series)|L.A. Heat]]''
| Kendra Brooks
|-
| ''[[The Steve Harvey Show]]''
| Cherry
| "Party of Five" (as Reneé Tenison)
|-
| [[2000 in film|2000]]
| ''[[Judging Amy]]''
| Mia
| "Shaken, Not Stirred"
|-
| [[2001 in film|2001]]
|rowspan="2"| ''[[The Parkers]]''
| Nurse Betty
| "In Sickness and in Health"
|-
| [[2003 in film|2003]]
| Candy
| "She's a Bad Mamma Jamma"

|}

==See also==
* [[List of people in Playboy 1980–1989]]
* [[List of people in Playboy 1990–1999]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161112205302/http://www.playboy.com/renee-tenison Renee Tenison] at [[Playboy]] Online
* {{IMDb name|0855020|Renee Tenison}}

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