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Rebecca Ferratti

American actress and dancer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ2591180 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rebecca Ferratti (born November 27, 1964) is an American model and actress.

She has worked in over 25 films. She has been a dancer in many music videos and has posed in many magazines, including Playboy. She was Playmate of the Month in the June 1986 issue.

Early life

Ferratti was born in Helena, Montana and grew up in Peoria, Arizona.

Career

After her pictorial in Playboy, she had roles in several B movies. She was the señorita who kissed Martin Short's character at the end of Three Amigos. She appeared in Ace Ventura Pet Detective as the former wife of Randall "Tex" Cobb's character, who hires Ace Ventura to retrieve her Shih Tzu in the film's first scene. In Gor, and Outlaw of Gor she played a lead role. She was an original American Gladiator on TV for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rebecca Ferratti” is american actress and dancer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rebecca, Ferratti and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-11-27. For this dossier, Rebecca, Ferratti and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american actress and dancer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2591180. VIAF identifies the subject as 34106638. The Library of Congress control number is no2001048566. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964 and 1986.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rebecca Ferratti” 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.