# Daphnée Duplaix

Daphnée Lynn Duplaix (born August 18, 1976) is an American actress and model. After beginning her career as an actress in 1996, Duplaix appeared as the July 1997 centerfold as Playboy's Playmate of the Month. In addition to appearing in several videos for Playboy, she continued to act in mainstream projects, including roles on American daytime soap operas Passions and One Life to Live. In 2024, she joined the cast of Beyond the Gates as Nicole Dupree Richardson.

## Career

After appearing in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month July 1997, she appeared in several Playboy videos. Her Playmate pictorial was photographed by Richard Fegley.
In 2004, Duplaix joined the cast of Passions, a soap opera on the NBC network, in the series regular role of Valerie Davis. Following her exit from the role in 2008, she served as a host of the Playboy TV game show Show Us Your Wits in January 2009. In February of the same year, it was announced Duplaix had joined the cast of ABC's One Life to Live in the role of Rachel Gannon. The following year, it was announced she was exiting the role as a "storyline-dictated" decision.
In 2024, Duplaix joined the cast of Beyond the Gates as Nicole Dupree Richardson. The soap will premiere in early 2025 on CBS.

## Personal life

Duplaix was previously married to Ron Samuel, with whom she has three sons. On June 28, 2014, she married Grady Heiberg. Their daughter was born in 2015.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1996 | Striptease | Stripper | |
| 1997 | The Blackout | Fly Girl | |
| 1997 | Kickboxing Academy | Melinda | |
| 1998 | Let's Talk About Sex | Chloe | |
| 1999 | Foolish | Clarisse | |
| 1999 | Lost & Found | Flight Attendant | |
| 2000 | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | Salon Receptionist | TV movie |
| 2002 | Demon Island | Julie | |
| 2003 | The Road Home | Deidre | |
| 2003 | The Fighting Temptations | Tiffany | |
| 2005 | Heart of the Beholder | Detective Deborah Burbach | |
| 2008 | The Governor's Wife | Reporter Jill Quigly | TV movie |
| 2013 | I Married Who? | Jessica | TV movie |
| 2014 | Beautiful Girl | Brianna | |
| 2014 | The Cookie Mobster | Constance | TV movie |
| 2014 | Love in an INSTAnt | Daph | Short |
| 2015 | Ex-Free | Jessica | |
| 2015 | The Motel Sunset | Anna Motawbi | Short |
| 2016 | Unreported | Michelle | |
| 2017 | The Cheaters Club | Mrs. Idrid | |
| 2022 | Unreported | Michelle | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | The Steve Harvey Show | Shelia | Episode: "Everybody Loves Regina" |
| 1998 | The Wayans Bros. | Tasha | Episode: "The High Life" |
| 1999 | Women: Stories of Passion | Dr. Merrill Thompson | Episode: "Voodoo" |
| 1999 | Rude Awakening | Cute Girl #2 | Episode: "Powerless Over the What?" |
| 1999 | V.I.P. | Iris Leon | Episode: "Ransom of Red Val" |
| 1999 | City Guys | Rayna | Episode: "Marriage Go-Round" |
| 1999 | Just Shoot Me! | Tanya | Episode: "Hello Goodbye" |
| 2000 | Angel | Serena | Episode: "Expecting" |
| 2000 | For Your Love | April | Episode: "The Craving" |
| 2000 | The Parkers | Vanessa | Episode: "Cheers" |
| 2001 | Kate Brasher | Kelly | Episode: "Georgia" |
| 2001 | My Wife and Kids | Tiara | Episode: "A Little Romance" |
| 2001 | Felicity | Samantha | Episode: "Girlfight" & "Senioritis" |
| 2001 | Off Centre | Sales Girl | Episode: "Let's Meet Mike and Euan" |
| 2001–03 | The District | Giselle | Recurring cast: season 1, guest: season 3 |
| 2002 | Weakest Link | Herself | Episode: "Playboy Playmates Edition" |
| 2002 | The Invisible Man | Rachel | Episode: "Mere Mortals" |
| 2002 | Dharma & Greg | Laura | Episode: "The Mamas and the Papas: Part 1 & 2" |
| 2002 | Half & Half | Geneva | Episode: "The Big Upsetting Set-Up" |
| 2003 | CSI | Amelia Rueben | Episode:"Grissom Versus the Volcano" |
| 2004–08 | Passions | Valerie Davis | Regular Cast |
| 2005 | Sex, Love & Secrets | Melanie | Episode: "Ambush" & "Danger" |
| 2009 | CSI: NY | Dr. Catherine Rydell | Episode: "No Good Deed" |
| 2009–10 | One Life to Live | Rachel Gannon | Regular Cast |
| 2011 | Harry's Law | Barbara | Episode: "Wheels of Justice" |
| 2011 | Last Man Standing | Misty Cavanaugh | Episode: "Home Security" |
| 2011 | Femme Fatales | Alexis | Episode: "Speed Date" |
| 2012 | House of Lies | Alisette Kauffman | Episode: "The Gods of Dangerous Financial Instruments" |
| 2013 | The Mindy Project | Woman #2 | Episode: "Mindy's Minute" |
| 2025 | Beyond the Gates | Nicole Dupree Richardson | Regular cast |