Profession : Model, Actress
Birthdate : July 1, 1967
Birthplace : Ladysmith, Canada
Pamela Denise Anderson was born at 4:08am, July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada.
1967 was Canada's centennial year and Pamela Anderson was the first baby born this day in all of Canada earning her the title "The Centennial Baby". This earned her an article in the local newspaper, the Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle. The Anderson's recieved cash prizes and awards for having the first baby born in Canada on this day, Canada's 100th Birthday. "That's where it all started" says Pamela.
Shortly after that, her parents Barry, a furnace repairman and Carol,
a waitress, moved to Comox, British Columbia where they purchased a large
six bedroom house on Douglas Street. Comox is about 200 kilometers north
of Vancouver, British Columbia and it was there one day in a library that
Pamela's modeling career would start. Pamela Anderson was sitting listening
to a story with about one hundred other children when a photographer captured
a picture of her that won the hearts of all that saw 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 vitually every sport she played,
earning the nick-name "Rubber-Band" for her flexability. Pat
Lewis, one of Pamela's school coaches was quoted as saying "She was
quite cute and competitive, but there was noting special about her."
Her favorite sport was Volleyball and wasn't overly interesd in movies,
television or music the way other girls her age were at that time in their
lives althought she did love to play the saxophone every chance she got.
She played sax in the school band and after school with friends when the
opportunity presented itself. Pamela's Mother Carol remembers that "If
someone did better than Pamela Anderson , she'd do anything to top them.
She was always very determined.". Upon graduating from Highland Secondary
School in 1985 her yearbook entry stated that her aspiration in life was
"To be a California Beach Bum".
In 1988, Pamela Anderson moved to Vancouver 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 Anderson invited her to go to a Canadian Football League
(CFL) game with them. One of her friends was a representitive for Labatt's
beer breweries. The game was between the British Columbia Lions and the
Toronto Argonauts in B.C. Place and at one of the stopages in play, the
cameraman was roaming the crowd looking for someone to put up on the big
screen for all to see. He found Pamela Anderson and when he put her bright
smiling face up on the screen, the place erupted! Labatt's noticed the
response this woman was getting and the fact that she was wearing a Labatt's
shirt her friend had given her cemented the deal. She began modeling for
Labatt's in their then curren promotion for the "Blue Zone".
As the "Blue Girl", Pamela's posters were plastered all over
walls in bars and resturants Canada wide.
The Playboy spread generated activity on Pamela's career agenda. She had small parts on shows such as Fox's "Married with Children" and in 1991, she got the part of "Lisa", the "Tool-Time-Girl" on ABC Televison's "Home Improvment". Luck wasn't finished playing a part in Pamela's life though, David Hasslehoff was a fan of the show and when he saw Pamela Anderson in the role of "Lisa", he knew he'd found his new lifeguard for his then-new series "Baywatch". C.J. Parker (Pamela's character name on Baywatch) was born. Pamela Anderson immediately jumped at the idea of Baywatch and she says that the character of C.J. and herself are very simular. Her grandfather Herman, a immigrant from Finland always taught Pamela Anderson to believe in "New Age Thinking", crystals, meditation and dream interpretation. C.J., according to Baywatch, has the same views.
Pamela Anderson 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 close friend of the Lee's David Keith. Mickey Spillane's detective series, "Mike Hammer" came calling later that year and Pamela Anderson found herself playing the very beautiful "Velda". 1995 came and Pamela Anderson played a quirky scupltor/artist in the TV movie, "The Evolution of Mr. E.", adapted from the H.G. Wells book of the same name.
1995 held other surprises as well for Pamela Anderson , one of which was
a husband! On New Year's evening in 1994, Pamela Anderson 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 Anderson over and over again
for the next few weeks trying to arrange a date and in the first week
of Febuary 1995, he succeeded only to be cancelled on at the last moment.
He wasn't about to give up on Pamela Anderson though, she'd been called
away to Cancun, Mexico to do a photo shoot for her sun-tan lotion line
and Tommy, determined to win over Pamela Anderson at any cost, followed
her.
Going against the advice of Nick Stevens, her personal manager, Pamela Anderson accepted the role to play futuristic bounty hunter Barb Wire for Dark Horse Comics and Gramercy Pictures (Polygram in the UK). He thought it would be a tremendous mistake but Pamela thought otherwise and May 3rd, 1996, Barb Wire will open in 1500 theatres across the United States. The soundtrack to Barb Wire features a song Tommy wrote called
"Planet Boom".
If you like heavier misic, this CD is the one to buy!. It's amazing.
Unfortunatley, stardom has a price. While filming Barb Wire, Pamela Anderson
and Tommy suffered a miscarriage. They were both devistated but like Tommy
told Pamwatch, "Our little angel is up there in good hands."
There wasn't really anyone or anything to blame other than the fact that
Pamela Anderson , being the hard worker that she is was simply overworked.
Stress played it's roll on Pamela Anderson , she was filming Baywatch
in the day and then after 10 hours in the Sun, she'd go to the set of
Barb Wire and film some more. I recall days when Pamela Anderson would
be so tired, her emails would be no more than four or five words. it's
amazing she had strength to type at all.
October 15th 1995 was a great day around here at the offices of Pamwatch. We recieved word before anyone else that Pamela was pregnant again. Tommy and her were bouncing off the walls! If you can believe how devoted this woman is to her fans, she emailed us using her portable Apple Powerbook from her hospital bed. Reports came in Monday from the media that Pamela Anderson tried to kill herself but it wasn't until Wednesday that word slipped out that she was pregnant.
In December of 1995, The Lee's were invited to England to spend the holidays
by the U.K. newspaper "The Sun". Amazingly, they accepted the
invitation. What was amazing about it is that "The Sun" is one
of the worst "tabloid" type papers in the U.K. but Pamela and
Tommy thought if they gave them an exclusive interview, then maybe they'd
leave them alone for awhile. They were wrong. The paper printed the interview
all right.. but it'd been doctered up to make it look like all that was
talked about was sex! Leave it to the tabloids to have a perfect opportunity
to print the truth but rather than take that opportunity, they lie!
While in England, Pamela Anderson and Tommy travelled with their close
friend and personnal assistant, Jon Roberts. They had a blast, Pamela
Anderson was buying every fluffy hat she could find and the candles...
ha! The candles are another story. She got in trouble trying to make the
Queen's Guard lose their concentration. Tommy told us she was doing a
good job until the Police broke it up. December 27th 1995 was spent in
Venice, Italy where Tommy and Pamela Anderson renewed their wedding vows
Initially, Pam denied the accusations, but it came as no surprise to anyone when she filed for divorce just shy of their two-year anniversary. The Lees almost immediately reconciled, renewed their vows, and welcomed their second child (son Brandon was born in 1996), a son named Dylan, in late 1997. Following an incident in which she called 911 to report that Tommy had attacked her during an argument (the alleged assault led to his arrest on spousal and child abuse charges and illegal firearm possession that resulted in a six-month jail term), Pamela filed for divorce for the second time, also petitioning for legal custody of the children. On the professional front, Pamela returned to the small screen in 1998, as the star of the syndicated actioner V.I.P.
