Alana was Playmate of the Month for March 1983. Her pictorial was titled Winter Wonder.
Alana was born Feb. 21, 1964, in Redondo Beach, CA. Her father was Hawaiian-Japanese and her mother was Spanish-Irish. According to her Playmate of the Month pictorial, after her parents divorced, her mother moved with Alana and her younger city to Park City, UT, where her mother worked in a ski shop. She moved to Laguna Beach, CA, with her father to attend school, but returned to Park City to finish high school. She was a freshman political science major at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City at the time of her pictorial.
Following her Playmate of the Month pictorial, Alana and her younger sister, Leilani, posed together for the pictorial Playmate Sisters in April 1985 and the 1986 newsstand special Sisters. She also posed for a number of newsstand specials.
Alana appears in the music video for Cheech Marin’s “Born in East L.A.” and has a small part as a Playmate in the movie “Beverly Hills Cop II.”
According to “The Playmate Book: Five Decades of Centerfolds,” Alana got a degree communications and a minor in cinema from USC and married a football player. The couple had two children. As of 1996, Alana was working as a pharmaceutical rep and had plans to get a master’s degree in communications.
Digital | Video | Later in life
Playboy appearances:
- Playmate of the Month pictorial, Winter Wonder, March 1983
- Dear Playboy, June 1983
- Calendar ad, December 1983
- Playboy’s Playmate Review, January 1984
- Dear Playmates, August 1984
- Dear Playmates, September 1984
- Dear Playmates, October 1984
- Playmate Sisters, April 1985
- The World of Playboy, June 1987
- Glamourcon, March 1997
- Playmate News, December 1999
- Centerfolds of the Century, January 2000
Calendars:
NSS:
- Bathing Beauties, 1990
- Bathing Beauties, 1992
- Blondes, Brunettes & Redheads, 1990
- Book of Lingerie, 1987
- Book of Lingerie, March 1988
- Book of Lingerie, January-February 1989
- Book of Lingerie, March-April 1989
- Book of Lingerie, January-February 1990
- Book of Lingerie, March-April 1990
- Book of Lingerie, May-June 1990
- Book of Lingerie, July-August 1990
- Book of Lingerie, January-February 1991
- Book of Lingerie, March-April 1992
- Book of Lingerie, July-August 1996
- Calendar Playmates, 1992
- Celebrating Centerfolds Vol. 4, 2000
- Centerfolds of the Century, 2000
- Country Girls, 1987
- Girls of Summer 2, 1984
- Girls of Summer ‘86, 1986
- Girls of Summer ‘89, 1989
- Girls of Winter, 1984
- Girls of Winter, 1988
- Lingerie, September-October 2002
- Nudes, 1990
- Playmates – The Second Fifteen Years, 1984
- Playmates at Play, 1994
- Pocket Playmates 2, 1995
- Sisters, 1986
- Sporting Women, 1986
- Wet & Wild Women, 1987
- Special Collector’s Edition, 80s Playmates, August 2014
Foreign:
- Croatian edition feature, Flashback, March 2013
- French edition pictorial, Playmate Sisters, March 1987
- German edition Playmate of the Month pictorial, Alana – Von allem das Beste, February 1984
- German edition pictorial, Playboy’s Playmate-Parade 1984, January 1985
- Greek edition pictorial, Playmate Sisters, August 1985
- Italian edition Playmate of the Month pictorial, La Magnifica Spagniola, August 1983
- Japanese edition Playmate of the Month pictorial, Alana Soares, April 1983
- Japanese edition pictorial, Playboy’s Playmate Review, February 1984
- Japanese edition pictorial, Playmates Best Selection, February 1984
- Japanese edition pictorial, Playmate Sisters, June 1985
- Japanese NSS Playmates Best Selection, 1986
- Japanese edition pictorial, All the Playmates Go Marching On!, February 1987
- Japanese NSS supplement, The Big Are The Best!, 1998
- Japanese edition supplement, Voluptuous Playmates, October 2011
- Mexican edition Playmate of the Month pictorial, March 1983
- Mexican edition pictorial, Playmate Sisters, April 1985
- Mexican edition, November 2004
- Russian edition feature, ГАЛЕРЕЯ, May 2016
- Spanish edition Playmate of the Month pictorial, Sangre Española, June 1983
- Spanish edition pictorial, Playmate Sisters, October 1986
Other publications:
- Inside the Playboy Mansion, 1998
- French magazine PHOTO, July 1984
- The Playmate Book: Five Decades of Centerfolds, 1996
Movies:
- Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) as a Playmate
Videos:
- Skiercise (1983)
- Born in East L.A. (1985)
Playboy videos:
- Playboy Video Magazine Vol. 5 (1983)
- Playmate Challenge Cup (1984)
- Playmate Yachting Adventure, date unknown