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‘Baywatch’ Actress Kelly Rohrbach’s 10 Best SI Swim Photos in California

The model was named the magazine’s Rookie of the Year in 2015.

Cara O’Bleness

Kelly Rohrbach was photographed by Yu Tsai in Big Sur, Calif.

Kelly Rohrbach was photographed by Yu Tsai in Big Sur, Calif.

Model-actress Kelly Rohrbach first posed for the SI Swimsuit Issue in 2015, when she participated in photoshoot along Route 1 with photographer Yu Tsai. She returned to the fold the following year and traveled to Malta with Ben Watts.

Before she got her start in modeling, Rohrbach was a Division I golfer. After playing high school golf at Greenwich Academy in her native Connecticut, she attended Georgetown University on a golf scholarship.

“I was a theater major at Georgetown and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to act, and I was out here two years acting when my manager suggested to me that I do modeling,” Rohrbach told SB Nation’s Georgetown publication. “The Sports Illustrated opportunity came to me and it was sort of a serendipitous thing. I had actually never really modeled before, and the Sports Illustrated thing came and now I’m doing a lot more modeling. It’s fun.”

Rohrbach’s SI Swimsuit photoshoot in Big Sur, Calif., earned her Rookie of the Year honors. And since her debut with the magazine, the 33-year-old has embarked on an acting career. She most notably played the role of C.J. Parker in the 2017 feature film Baywatch, and was also featured in Two and a Half Men.

“I wasn’t interested in playing the hot-girl role,” Rohrbach noted to Cosmopolitan about her Baywatch portrayal of the role made famous by Pamela Anderson. “I didn’t want her to be an object but rather a dynamic, real person.”

Below are 10 of our favorite pics that helped earn Rohrbach Rookie of the Year honors.

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Cara O’Bleness

CARA O’BLENESS

Cara is a trending news writer/editor for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. A passionate writer and editor with more than 10 years of experience in print and online media, she loves storytelling and believes that words have the power to change the world. Prior to joining the team, Cara worked as a writer and editor across a number of content verticals, including food, lifestyle, health and wellness, and small business and entrepreneurship. In her free time, Cara loves reading, spending time with her family and making her way through Michigan’s many microbreweries. She is a graduate of Michigan State University's School of Journalism.