Renee Tenison
Reneé Tenison (born December 2, 1968) is an American model, actress, and the first African-American selected to be the "Playboy" Playmate of the Year (1990). Personal life and career. Tenison was born in Caldwell, Idaho. She has three older brothers and an identical twin sister, Rosie, who also works as a model. Rosie and Renee posed in the August 2002 issue of "Playboy" together. Tenison appeared as the Playmate of the Month in the November 1989 issue of "Playboy" magazine and was subsequently named Playmate of the Year for 1990, the first PMOY of African American descent . In 2001, she was selected as one of the ten sexiest women of the year by the readers of "Black Men" magazine. In 2017 at the age of 49 Tenison duplicated her Playmate of the Year cover along with her cohorts Kimberley Conrad, Candace Collins, Lisa Matthews, Cathy St. George, Charlotte Kemp, and Monique St. Pierre nearly three decades on.