16 Facts About Marina Baker

Marina Baker was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for March 1987.

Marina Baker had an unconventional, hippie, nomadic upbringing in the rural environs of Norfolk, as well as different parts of the Midlands and the Southeast.

Marina Baker trained as a dancer at Bush Davies ballet school and left with six O-levels, but later abandoned A-levels in Drama, English and History at Norwich City Tech for London.

Marina Baker claimed that her comfort with posing nude was due to the liberating influence of her mother, Margaret Ayrton, a Witch.

Marina Baker was first approached to pose for Penthouse but turned them down and did her Playmate shoot in 1986 when she was 18.

In 1995 Marina Baker wrote a lengthy article about her experiences as a Playmate for the London edition of Time Out magazine.

Marina Baker has appeared in two films: the 1987 TV movie Casanova, starring Richard Chamberlain, and the 1990 short film Man from China.

Marina Baker acted in the musical Forever Elvis, and played Nina in a stage production of Chekov's The Seagull.

Marina Baker ended up doing work experience at the News of the World, before joining the London Evening Standard.

Marina Baker is known today as a practising Wiccan and author of several children's books on Witchcraft, including Spells for the Witch in You; Spells for Teenage Witches: Get Your Way with Magical Power; Marina Baker's Teenage Survival Guide; and Spells for Cats.

Marina Baker lost her seat on 3 May 2007 when she was defeated for re-election by the Conservatives.

Marina Baker has served as the mayoress of Telscombe and at the 2005 general election she stood for Parliament in the Brighton Kemptown constituency as a Liberal Democrat, but was unsuccessful.

Marina Baker has been quoted as saying, somewhat facetiously, "I'm not sure Page Three girls can become MPs".

Marina Baker is active in a number of local environmentalist programs such as the Saltdean "walking bus", which accompanies a line of children to school, reducing the number of cars on the road and giving the children "a good bit of exercise" before school.

Marina Baker has set up a community recycling scheme for a local preschool and ran eco-fairs to help promote understanding of sustainable living.

Marina Baker appeared in the 2011 documentary Just Do It on environmental activism.