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Suze Randall | |
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 Randall at the "Free Speech Coalition Awards Annual Bash Event" in 2009 | |
| Born | (1946-05-18)18 May 1946 (age 78) Worcester, England |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, includingHolly |
Suze Randall (born 18 May 1946) is an English model, photographer, andpornographer. After giving up modelling she devoted her time to erotic photography and became the first woman to shootPage 3 forThe Sun newspaper. She was the first female staff photographer for bothPlayboy andHustler. Randall is one of the early female pornographic film directors; she madeKiss and Tell in 1980. She is the president of adult content website Suze Network.
Working first as a nurse and then as a fashion model in the early 1970s, Randall gained attention for erotic photographs she took of her fellow model friends.[1] In 1972, she played anau pair inÉric Rohmer's filmLove in the Afternoon. She gave up modelling and devoted her time to erotic photography becoming the first female to shootPage 3 forThe Sun newspaper. After working for years in top adult magazines likePenthouse andPlayboy, she now continues her career as a freelance photographer. In recent years, her work has includedbondage imagery.
Her breakthrough came when she spotted the pinup modelLillian Müller and photographed her forPlayboy. Müller was chosen asPlaymate of the Month in August 1975 and subsequently Playmate of the Year in 1976. In a pictorial inPlayboy's May 1976 issue, Randall was both photographer and model. She went on to shoot a much more explicit self-portrait in a June 1977Hustler pictorial.
Randall was staff photographer from 1975 until 1977 forPlayboy under the supervision of the magazine's West Coast editor, Marilyn Grabowski, and from 1977 until 1979 staff photographer forHustler. Later, she providedPenthouse Pet feature photo layouts.
Randall has shot the BritishLamb's Navy Rum calendar, has done album covers for recording artists such asRevenge[2] andRobert Palmer, as well as a music video forCapitol Records.
In the 1970s, Randall married writerHumphry Knipe, who helped write her biographical bookSuze (1977), wrote and directed several of her films as Victor Nye, and managed Suze Randall Productions websites. They had three children together, including erotic photographerHolly Randall (born 1978).[3] Knipe died in 2023, more than fifty years after he and Randall became a couple.
