Pamela Anderson
Biography
For Pamela
Denise Anderson, fame came early. Pamela was born in Ladysmith,
British Columbia, July 1, 1967. Literally born into the spotlight,
she was the first baby to be born on Canada's one-hundredth birthday,
earning her the title of The Centennial Baby. Her landmark birth
was chronicled in the local newspaper and her parents, Barry and
Carol, were awarded with cash prizes for the birth of little Pamela.
Another
incident placed Pamela in the spotlight once again. She was sitting
in a library at a storytelling session, when a photographer picked
her out of a crowd of 100 other children, and took a photograph
of her. The picture drew so much attention, it was placed in all
the libraries in British Columbia and became copyrighted.
Pamela's
teenage years were as normal as any other teenager's. She was a
regular girl with braces, who loved volleyball and playing the saxophone.
Her flexibility earned her the nickname “Rubber Girl”.
During this time, she made tentative steps into the movie industry
by playing extras. In 1979, she did the voice of Pebbles in The
Flintstones Little Big League. In 1984 she played a hooker in Crimes
of Passion. In 1987 she played a Party Guest in John Hughes’
'Some Kind of Wonderful'. None of these roles did much for her career.
The third
incident that Pamela experienced was the one that ended up being
her big break. In 1989 while attending a CFL game, she was spotted
by a cameraman, who put her on the big screen. When the crowd saw
her, they began to cheer enthusiastically. Since she was wearing
a T-shirt for Labatt, this brought her to the attention of company
executives. They decided that she would be perfect for their Blue
Zone promotion. She then appeared on numerous posters that were
shipped to bars all across Canada.
The poster
campaign also brought her to the attention of Playboy. She soon
made the first of her record six cover appearances for that magazine.
Her appearance on Hefner's magazine was the launching pad of her
career, and roles in television soon followed. After her first appearance,
she had her breast augmentation surgery.
She had
a small role on the comedy Married... With Children, and played
Lisa, the Tool Time Girl on Home Improvement. This family/workplace
sitcom starring Tim Allen was an immediate hit. This brought her
to the attention of David Hasselhoff, executive producer and star
of Baywatch. He offered Anderson the red bathing suit-clad role
as lifeguard C.J. Parker. Anderson took the role in 1992. For a
short time, Anderson split her time between Home Improvement and
Baywatch. This proved to be too much of a workload, so she quit
Home Improvement. Debbe Dunning replaced her.
Her newfound
fame garnered Anderson more movie roles. In The Taking of Beverly
Hills, she had a small uncredited part. More substantial was her
role in Snapdragon, 1993. She played Felicity, an amnesiac who has
dreams about killing her lovers. Anderson’s next movie appearance
was in Raw Justice, 1994, which was made for HBO. She also appeared
in a small time movie The Evolution of Mr. E. She also had a role
in the television detective series, Mike Hammer.
Her next
big movie was Naked Souls in 1995 with Brian Krause. The plot of
the movie was unimportant, serving mostly to set up Anderson’s
frequent nude scenes. Anderson appeared in two more videos that
year. One was Baywatch: Forbidden Paradise. The other was The Best
of Pamela Anderson. This was a biographical video that contained
footage from her Playboy video shoots. It went to number one on
the video sales charts, knocking off Forrest Gump. Around the same
time, the rapidly growing Internet, which included a huge number
of pictures of her, propelled her to major stardom.
During
this time, Anderson often stated that her main goal was to find
a husband and raise a family. Among her early suitors were Dean
Cain, Sylvester Stallone, and Scott Baio, to whom she was briefly
engaged. The most successful was Tommy Lee, drummer for Motley Crue.
When he first saw her at a party, he walked right up to her and
licked her face. He pestered her repeatedly for her phone number.
After she finally gave in, he called repeatedly with marriage proposals.
She eventually agreed. In 1995, four days after they had met, they
were married in Cancun. Instead of rings, they had their names tattooed
on each other. The videotape they made of their honeymoon night
disappeared while their house was under construction. It reappeared
a couple of years later, causing numerous headaches. The homemade
video was allegedly stolen from their house in 1995.
In 1996,
Pamela starred in her first feature film, Barb Wire, despite her
manager's advice to refuse the film role. She should have taken
his advice, since the film bombed commercially and critically. At
the 1997 Razzie Awards, Anderson ‘won’ for Worst New
Star. The movie was also nominated for Worst Actress, Anderson,
Worst Original Song, ‘Welcome to Planet Boom’ by Tommy
Lee, Worst Picture, Worst Screen Couple, for Anderson’s ‘impressive
enhancements’ and Worst Screenplay.
These
were just the beginnings of Anderson’s troubles. Less than
two years after the marriage, Anderson filed for divorce among rumours
of physical abuse. In 1997, one year after the birth of their first
child Brandon, Pamela filed for divorce. It didn't take long for
the Lees to get back together and Dylan, their second son, was born
later that year. In 1998 Anderson claimed that Tommy had attacked
her. He was charged for spousal and child abuse, as well as illegal
firearm possession. After a conviction, he was sentenced to six
months in prison. Anderson filed for divorce and for custody of
their two children. In 1997, stills from the stolen honeymoon tape
were printed in the French edition of Penthouse. The tape was then
released in its entirety over the Internet.
Having
left Baywatch in 1997, Anderson returned to the small screen with
'V.I.P.' in 1998, which was canceled after four seasons, in June
of 2002. And when not on the screen, continued to work as an advocate
of animal rights.
Pamela
and super male model Marcus Schenkenberg became an item after her
final split from Tommy Lee. Making her divorce from Tommy even more
official, she dropped "Lee" from her name in June of 2000.
In April of 2001, she started seeing the king of trailer trash rock,
the cocky Kid Rock.
In early
2002, Pamela announced her involvement in the animated series Stripperella,
a stripper/superhero character created by Stan Lee of Marvel Comics
fame. This was followed by news that she would accompany her new
boyfriend on tour as an on-stage stripper. All this was put on hold
when it was made public that Pam has been diagnosed with hepatitis
C. She had been undergoing outpatient treatment for the disease,
which she says she got by sharing tattoo needles with Tommy Lee.
He never told her that he had the condition.
It seems
as if Pamela Anderson may have the fight of her life on her hands.
Pamela Anderson Filmography
"Stacked"
.... Skyler Dayton
- The Headmaster (????) TV Episode .... Skyler Dayton
"8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter"
... aka 8 Simple Rules (USA: new title)
- Torn Between Two Lovers (2005) TV Episode .... Cheryl
- C.J.'s Temptation (2005) TV Episode .... Cheryl
"Less Than Perfect"
- All About Claude (2003) TV Episode .... Vicki Devorski
Scary Movie 3 (2003) .... Becca
"Stripperella" (2003) TV Series (voice) .... Stripperella
(Erotica Jones)
... aka Stan Lee's Stripperella (USA: complete title)
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003) (TV) .... C.J. Parker
"King of the Hill"
- The Fat and the Furious (2002) TV Episode (voice) .... Cyndi
V.I.P. (2001) (VG) (voice) .... Vallery Irons
"Futurama"
- Fry and the Slurm Factory (1999) TV Episode (voice) .... Dixie
"Sin City Spectacular"
... aka Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular (USA)
- Episode 1.21 (1999) TV Episode
"V.I.P." (1998) TV Series .... Vallery Irons
... aka V.I.P. - Die Bodyguards (Germany)
"Home Improvement" .... Lisa (1991-1993)
- The Kiss & the Kiss-Off (1997) TV Episode (as Pamela Lee)
.... Lisa
- Howard's End (1993) TV Episode .... Lisa
- Pilot (1991) TV Episode .... Lisa
"The Nanny"
- The Heather Biblow Story (1997) TV Episode (as Pamela Lee) ....
Heather Biblow-Imperiali
- Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will? (1997) TV Episode .... Heather
Biblow-Imperiali
"Saturday Night Live"
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: original title)
... aka SNL
... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: new title)
- Episode 22.18 (1997) TV Episode (as Pamela Lee) .... Host
Barb Wire (1996) (as Pamela Anderson Lee) .... Barbara 'Barb Wire'
Kopetski
Baywatch: Forbidden Paradise (1995) (V) .... C.J. Parker
Naked Souls (1995) .... Britt
Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery (1994)
(TV) .... Velda
Raw Justice (1994) .... Sarah
... aka Good Cop Bad Cop (UK)
... aka Skip-Tracer
Snapdragon (1993) .... Felicity
"Days of Our Lives" (1965) TV Series .... Cindy (1992)
... aka Cruise of Deception: Days of Our Lives (new title (summer
title))
... aka DOOL (USA: informal short title)
... aka Days (USA: short title)
"Baywatch" (1989) TV Series .... Casey Jean 'C.J.' Parker
(1992-1997)
... aka Baywatch Hawai'i (USA: new title)
... aka Baywatch Hawaii (USA: new title)
Baywatch: River of No Return (1992) (TV) (as Pamela Denise Anderson)
.... C.J. Parker
The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) (uncredited) .... Cheerleader
... aka Boomer: The Taking of Beverly Hills
"Married... with Children"
- Route 666: Part 2 (1991) TV Episode .... Cashew
- Al... with Kelly (1990) TV Episode .... Yvette
"Top of the Heap"
- Behind the Eight Ball (1991) TV Episode .... Romona
"Married People"
- The Nanny (1991) TV Episode .... Dancer 1
"Charles in Charge"
- Teacher's Pest (1990) TV Episode .... Chris
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