Pamela Denise Anderson was born July 1, 196,7 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada. Shortly
after she was born, her parents, a furnace repairman and a waitress, moved to Comox, British
Columbia, about 285 miles north of Vancouver. It was there one day in a library that Pamela's
modeling career would start. Pamela was sitting listening to a story with a group of other
children when a photographer captured a picture of her that won the hearts of all that viewed
it. It was quickly copyrighted and placed in all the libraries in British Columbia.
Pamela's teen years weren't anything out of the ordinary, she had braces and she was small
chested. She excelled in virtually every sport she played, earning the nick-name "Rubber-Band"
for her flexibility. Upon graduating from Highland Secondary School in 1985, her yearbook
entry stated that her aspiration in life was "To be a California Beach Bum". Pamela moved to
Vancouver when she was 21, to get a taste of the big city and get on with her life. She was
working as a fitness instructor when her direction in life changed.
It was the summer of 1989 when close friends of Pamela invited her to go to a Canadian Football
League game with them. One of her friends was a representative for Labatt's breweries. A
cameraman was roaming the crowd looking for someone to put up on the big screen, when he found
Pamela. When he put her bright smiling face up on the screen, the place erupted! Labatt's
noticed the response this woman generated, and the fact that she was wearing a Labatt's T- shirt
her friend had given her. Labatt's offered Pam a job modeling as the "Blue Girl" for their
products, and Pamela's posters were all over walls in bars and restaurants in Canada.
Ken Honey, a freelance photographer, took a few pictures of Pamela and talked her into
submitting them to Playboy. Playboy seized the opportunity, and Pamela was off to Los
Angeles to do the cover for their October '89 issue. The Playboy spread launched Pamela's
career, yielding small parts on various TV shows. Then, in 1991, stared in the role of
"Lisa", the "Tool-Time-Girl" on ABC Television's "Home Improvement". David Hasslehoff was
a fan of the show and when he saw Pamela in the role of "Lisa", he knew he'd found a new
lifeguard for his new series "Baywatch". C.J. Parker, Pamela's character name on Baywatch,
was born. Pamela immediately jumped at the opportunity of Baywatch and she says that the
character of C.J. and herself are very similar. Pamela's grandfather Herman, a native of
Finland taught Pamela to believe in "New Age Thinking", crystals, meditation and dream
interpretation. Pamela's character C.J. on Baywatch, portrays many of the same views.
Pamela has starred in several other roles outside of Baywatch, including an uncredited
role in the 1992 flop, "The Taking of Beverly Hills". After that, she went on to star as
"Felicity" in the thriller "Snapdragon". This one is highly recommended if you're a Pam
fanatic. In 1994, she played the part of "Sarah" in the HBO movie "Raw Justice" with
David Keith. Mickey Spillane's detective series, "Mike Hammer" came calling later that
year and Pamela found herself playing the very beautiful "Velda". In 1995, Pamela played a
quirky artist in the TV movie, "The Evolution of Mr. E.", adapted from the H.G. Wells book
of the same name.
On New Year's Eve in 1994, Pamela was attending a party in New York, where she met Motley
Crue drummer, Tommy Lee. He came right up to her and licked her face! They talked off and
on, and after he begged her several times for her phone number, she finally gave in and
let him have it. Tommy called Pamela over and over again for the next few weeks trying
to arrange a date and in the first week of February 1995, he succeeded, only to be
canceled on at the last moment. Pam had been called away to Cancun, Mexico to do a photo
shoot for her sun-tan lotion product line.
Tommy determined to win over Pamela at any cost, and followed her to Cancun. After four
days of courting and endless parties, the two were married on a beach. Pamela wearing a
white bikini and Tommy wearing a set of shorts. After returning to L.A., they had wedding
rings tattooed on their fingers inscribed with each others name.
Going against the advice of Nick Stevens, her personal manager, Pamela accepted the role
to play futuristic bounty hunter "Barb Wire" for Dark Horse Comics and Gramercy Pictures.
He thought it would be a tremendous mistake, but Pamela thought otherwise.
In May 1996, "Barb Wire" opened, with the soundtrack featuring a song Tommy wrote called
"Planet Boom". While filming "Barb Wire", Pamela suffered a miscarriage, both Pam and Tommy
were devastated. There wasn't really anyone or anything to blame other than the fact that
Pamela, being the hard worker that she is, was simply overworked. Stress played it's toll
on Pamela, filming Baywatch ten hours in the sun, and then filming some more at the set of
"Barb Wire". Pamela has gone on to star in her own series, "V.I.P.", have a baby, have
more tattoos, breast augmentations, and has now become one of the most photographed and
widely admired women in the World.
(2003) Scary Movie 3
Character played: Becca
(2003) Baywatch Hawaiian Wedding
Character played: Casey Jean Parker
(2003) Baywatch Hawaiian Wedding
Character played: Casey Jean Parker
(2003) Playboy: The Ultimate Pamela Anderson
(2003) Stripperella [Animated Series]
Character played: Erotica Jones/Stripperella
(2002) King of the Hill: The Fat and the Furious
Character played: Cyndi
(2001) Celebrities: Caught On Camera
(2000 Paul McCartney and Friends: The PETA Concert for Party Animals
(1999) Futurama: A Fishful of Dollars
Character played: Herself
(1999) Futurama: Fry and the Slurm Factory
Character played: Dixie
(1997) Saturday Night Live: Pamela Lee
Character played: Host
(1996) Barb Wire
Character played: Barb Wire
(1995) Naked Souls
Character played: Britt
(1994) Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery
Character played: Velda
(1993) Raw Justice
Character played: Sarah
(1993) Snapdragon
Character played: Felicity
(1991) The Taking of Beverly Hills
Character played: Cheerleader
(1987) Some Kind of Wonderful
Character played: Party Guest
(1985) Violated
(1984) Crimes of Passion
Character played: Hooker
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