Biography
While she made her film debut in E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982), Erika Eleniak became a TV celebrity through rather less G-rated means. An actress since her teens, California girl and 1989 Playboy Playmate Eleniak made her name as one of the babes guarding the beaches on the TV hit
Baywatch in 1989. After several seasons on the show and two
Baywatch TV movies, Eleniak left the series in 1992 for more work in feature films. Though she starred as
Steven Seagal's impromptu helper in his well-received 1992 action hit
Under Siege and as one of the upwardly mobile southern transplants in
The Beverly Hillbillies (1993), Eleniak's subsequent features failed to match her box office success with Seagal. After the failure of
Dennis Hopper's
Last Detail (1973) re-tread
Chasers (1994) and the romantic fantasy
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995), the actress worked steadily in B-films and TV movies, playing starring roles in the horror flick
Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood (1996), TV's
Heatwave (1997) and {One Hot Summer Night (1998), and action movies
The Pandora Project (1998) and
Stealth Fighter (1999). After her marriage in 1998, Eleniak billed herself as Erika Eleniak-Goglia. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide