Born "Marie Perry" on march 6, 1937, in Pompano Beach, Florida. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1956 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bunny Yeager, who discovered Winters when she saw the teenager running to catch a bus. Winters would pose only for Yeager because she felt too shy to be naked in front of any male photographer.
It can be argued that Lisa was the first Playmate of the Year, as she was unofficially dubbed as such by the Playboy editors due to the volume of fan mail she received. This designation, however, was not formally organized until 1960. Despite her enduring popularity among both the Playboy brass and the magazine's readers, Winters passed up all offers to go into show business full time, though she did continue to pose for Playboy pictorials for a time.
She also was a secretary working for Hugh Hefner in Chicago's Playboy offices.
She also starred in two movies. Her first film was with her Playboy photographer Bunny Yeager and named Bunny Yeager's Nude Camera (1963) and her second film, which she starred under her real name, “Marie Perry”, was named Intimate Diary of Artists' Models. Both films are rated R for nudity.