Name: Erika Eleniak
Date: September 29 1969
Birth Place: Glendale California, USA
Height: 5' 5''
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Occupation: Actress, Model

Erika Eleniak was born on 29 September, 1969 in a small suburb of Los Angeles called Glendale. Her great grand-father who was of Ukrainian descent, gave her, her name. Her parents divorced soon after her birth.

When Erika was around ten years old, her father (whose dreams of becoming an actor proved unsuccessful) was going out with a woman who worked in film production. She helped Erika on the way to becoming an actress, and Erika started out by modelling for a children's clothing label. When she moved into adolescence she was appearing in advertisements for shampoo and motorcycles.
But Erika was slowly beginning to get in the alcohol and drugs scene. Erika's chance of salvation from this cycle came at seventeen when she met Steve Ferguson by chance on a Santa Monica beach. When she was eighteen, Steve signed her up to Alcoholics Anonymous and even helped her through detoxification. However Steve and Erika's relationship became complicated when Steve's father Robert married Erika's mother. There was talk of Erika marrying Steve, but she never did.

In 1989 when Erika was twenty she asked Steve to put her in contact with a Playboy photographer, as she wanted to appear in Playboy. The photographer accepted Erika, and she appeared in the July 1989 issue of Playboy in a series of provocative photos on nautical studies.
The year of 1989 proved to be a very important year in Erika's life. She won the role of Shauni McClain in the Baywatch television series which would bring her international fame.
While working on the series, Erika met Billy Warlock who played Eddie Kramer on the show. Neither of them were single, but their friendship began to slowly turn into love. In fact, he was the reason that Erika left the show after only two seasons. But their relationship eventually fizzled out, perhaps because Billy confessed: "I can't bear anyone else to see her body".

Erika's return to the movie scene was impressive. In 1992, she was once again bought to public attention in the movie "Under Siege" with Steven Seagal. The film was a major success. She was later seen in "Chasers", with a scene that seemed to make an impression on most of the male population of the United States. Her partner in this film, William McNamara, was also her partner in life at the time. Erika soon filmed another movie with William called "A Girl in the Cadillac".

After Erika and Williams relationship ended, she was quoted as saying: "I go out a lot with many different friends, but there isn't one that I would want to marry. Yet, I would like to get married. I can easily imagine myself living on a ranch in Montana with a family."
Meanwhile, Erika was still filming. She was in "Bordello of Blood", "Panic in the Park" and "87th Precinct: Heatwave". Then in 1997 she met Philip Goglia and the two got married in the beginning of March, 1998.

Erika's latest films are Second to Die where she played Sara, and The Opponent in which she played Patty. Both movies were released in 2000.