

Tyler Nixon slid out at Little Company of Mary Hospital back in '87 and grew up catching waves in Manhattan Beach. Just a college kid at 24 when he answered a Playboy TV scout's tap on the shoulder in 2012. Got his first scene with the same high-school girl he sat two rows behind in biology, so nobody had to rehearse the chemistry. When the lights go out he’s back on a board—skate parks by day, Pacific rollers at dusk—taking his hits and catching his barrels like the kid never left the block.

Tyler Nixon slid out at Little Company of Mary Hospital back in '87 and grew up catching waves in Manhattan Beach. Just a college kid at 24 when he answered a Playboy TV scout's tap on the shoulder in 2012. Got his first scene with the same high-school girl he sat two rows behind in biology, so nobody had to rehearse the chemistry. When the lights go out he’s back on a board—skate parks by day, Pacific rollers at dusk—taking his hits and catching his barrels like the kid never left the block.