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Heidi Mark

American playmate and actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2249390
Source-derived summary

Heidi Mark (born February 18, 1971) is an American model and former actress. She is of Finnish descent; her father was born in Helsinki, Finland. She has worked at her father's law office and Hooters. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for July 1995. Prior to being a Playmate, she appeared on the cover of the April 1994 issue of the magazine.

Mark was married to Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe on May 28, 2000. She filed for divorce in August 2001, citing "irreconcilable differences".

Partial filmography

Red Shoe Diaries as Rebecca (1 episode, 1994)

Thunder in Paradise (1994, TV series) as Allison Wilson (unknown episodes)

Silk Stalkings as Christine (1 episode, 1994)

The Young and the Restless as Sharon Newman (unknown episodes, 1994)

Baywatch the Movie: Forbidden Paradise (1995) as Holly

High Tide as Dee Dee (2 episodes, 1995)

Married... with Children as Ashley (3 episodes, 1995–1996)

Baywatch as a Blonde Con-Artist and Holly (3 episodes, 1995–1996)

Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997) (TV) as Cricket Paige

Head Over Heels as Nikki (1 episode, 1997)

Steel Chariots (1997) (TV) as Amber

Love Boat: The Next Wave as Cruise Director Nicole Jordan (season 2, 1998–1999)

Hope Island as Stella Cooper (1 episode, 1999)

Ally McBeal as Alice Gaylor (1 episode, 1999)

Charmed as Darla (1 episode, 1999)

3rd Rock from the Sun as Miranda (1 episode, 2000)

Dharma & Greg as Allison (1 episode, 2000)

Beverly Hills, 90210 as Amy (1 episode, 2000)

Diagnosis: Murder as Ashley Wellers (1 episode, 2000)

Providence (1 episode, 2001)

The Judge (2001) (TV) as Brittany Hill

Rock Star (2001) as Kirk's Wife

Life Without Dick (2002) as Crossing Guard Stripper

Man of the Year (2002) as Carol

Ocean Ave.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Heidi Mark” as american playmate and actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1995, 1994, 2000—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1971-05-28, 1971-02-18—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Heidi, Mark and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american playmate and actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2249390. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1995, 1994 and 2000.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from Heidi Mark” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.