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. Filmography Films Television See also List of people in Playboy 1980–1989 List of people in Playboy 1990–1999 References External links Renee Tenison at Playboy Online 1968 births Living people People from Caldwell, Idaho African-American actresses Identical twin actresses 1980s Playboy Playmates Playboy Playmates of the Year African-American Playboy Playmates African-American female models American television actresses Actresses from Idaho American twins 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women