Stephanie Marrian

Marrian was the first Page 3 model in The Sun newspaper in the 17 November 1970 edition, where she was named as Stephanie Rahn. Marrian was using her father's surname of Khan at the time; a subeditor at the newspaper misread her surname as Rahn. From 1973 to 1978, using the name Stefanie Marrian, her mother's surname, she appeared regularly as the Page 3 girl. In this role she was featured in the 2017 stage production of Ink, played by Pearl Chanda and directed by Rupert Goold, at the Almeida Theatre, London.^[2]

Marrian was a glamour model throughout the 1970s, appearing topless and nude in magazines, papers and calendars world-wide. Along with two other Page Three models, Felicity Buirski and Clare Russell, she was a member of a pop group called Page Three.^[3] The group had a national hit with "Hold on to Love" in 1977.^[4][5]

She appeared on the cover of the Top of the Pops, an exploito record album Volume 43 (Hallmark Records SHM 895), released in January 1975.^[6][7] From the same photo-shoot, another picture of her was used to grace the cover of another similar release in Germany, Hit Power: 16 Super Hits International on the Telefunken label.^[8][9]

Marrian played the part of Lesley in the 1974 film, Can You Keep It Up for a Week?.^[10] She played the part of Lady Marie in the Mel Brooks 1981 film, History of the World, Part I.^[11][12]

Marrian was born in Singapore to an Indian father and an English mother;^[1] other sources erroneously stated that she was German and her birth surname was Rahn.^{[13][14][citation needed]}

British TV programmes include:

• as Cross's girl in Callan (1970)
• as a student in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973)
• The Cut Price Comedy Show (1982)

Films include:

• as Susan in Confessions Of A Sex Maniac (1974), starring Roger Lloyd-Pack
• as Lesley in Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1974), starring Jeremy Bulloch
• as Girl in Hotel in The World Is Full of Married Men (1979)
• as Lady Marie in the Mel Brooks film History of the World, Part I (1981)
• as Hotel Receptionist in Green Ice (1981), starring Ryan O'Neal