Sue Bernard

Susan Bernard (born February 11, 1948) was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the December 1966 issue; her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli and her father Bruno Bernard.

Bernard had a sporadic film and television career, appearing for one season of *General Hospital* in the late 1960s and in small parts on series television, often credited as Sue Bernard.

She posed for Playboy while working on the Russ Meyer film *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!*; she was believed to be the first Jewish Playmate of the month, although Cindy Fuller, Miss May 1959, has later claimed that distinction. In an interview in the August 1998 issue of *Femme Fatales*, Bernard said she was “the first under‑18 Jewish virgin who was in the centerfold placed in front of a Christmas tree” and that she had never been nude before the shoot except in front of her mother, with Casilli having been one of her father’s apprentices. Her father was photographer Bruno Bernard. As of November 2008, Bernard was working on three books about her father.