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Pamela Anderson

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Overview (3)

Born in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
Birth NamePamela Denise Anderson
Height 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Mini Bio (1)

Pamela Denise Anderson was born on July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada at 4:08 PST, to young newlywed parents, Barry Anderson and Carol Anderson. Her ancestry includes Finnish, English, Irish, and Volga German. During her childhood, she moved to the city of Vancouver. She has a younger brother Gerry, born 1971. As a teenager, Pamela went to Highland Secondary School. She was an acrobat and gymnast ages 7-12 and an athlete throughout school. She waitressed ages 16 to 19. Pamela was first "discovered" at a British Columbia Lions football game, when her image was shown on the stadium screen. The fans cheered her and she was brought down to the football field. Because of her fame in Vancouver, she signed a commercial contract with Labatt's beer to be the Blue Zone girl. More advertising assignments followed, and soon Playboy approached her. In October 1989, Pamela was on the cover of Playboy magazine.

With success from Playboy, Pamela Anderson moved to Los Angeles, California in 1990. In 1991, she made her television debut on Home Improvement (1991), where she starred as Lisa, the Tool Time Girl. Soon, she got attention from viewers nationwide, which got her the role of C.J. Parker on Baywatch (1989). She was on one of the most viewed television series worldwide. She made her big screen debut on Raw Justice (1994). Soon after, Pamela met Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee on New Year's Eve 1994 in New York City. In February 1995, they got married in Cancun, Mexico. They both returned to Los Angeles and stunned the world.

In the spring of 1996, Pamela starred as the title role of Barb Wire (1996). While filming, she suffered a miscarriage. Pamela and Tommy were devastated, but there was hope for the couple when, on June 6, 1996, Brandon Thomas Lee was born. Soon later, a pornographic video of Pamela and Tommy was stolen from their home. Both of them sued an Internet website for stealing the video. Their case was not settled and the video is still on the Internet. Meanwhile, Pamela and Tommy were having a rocky marriage, but, on December 29, 1997, Dylan Jagger Lee was born. Two months later, Pamela filed for divorce when her husband assaulted her. Tommy was sentenced to six months in jail. In late 1998, she starred on a television series called V.I.P. (1998). Soon later, she stunned the world again by removing her breast implants.

In fall 2001, she started to date singer Kid Rock, they announced their engagement in the spring of 2002. Then, Pamela announced that she was infected with hepatitis C. The cause of it was that Pamela shared a needle with her ex-husband Tommy for a tattoo. Immediately, Pamela went into treatment and her series was canceled. In the fall of 2003, she broke up with Kid Rock and starred on a animated series by Stan Lee called Stripperella (2003). A lifelong animal rights advocate, Pamela soon joined PETA, working on many issues, including fur, slaughter of chickens and supporting vegetarians. In 2005, she starred on a FOX comedy series called Stacked (2005). Pamela also teaches at her sons' Sunday school and still poses for magazines.

at BC Lion's football game by the Jumbo-tron camera man. Quickly became known as "The Blue Zone girl" commercial campaign, face of trendsetters Gym. Playboy called (said no- too shy). Phone rang at home during a fight with ex-fiancé, she decided to spontaneously accept an offer to shoot a cover only- Asked mom... She agreed ... The family agreed after speaking with Mr. Hefner. 14 American Playboy covers. Worked with many photographers and artists worldwide. Home Improvement (3 seasons). Baywatch (5 seasons). VIP (5 seasons). Barb Wire, Borat. Theater - Aladdin (Panto) (Wimbledon and Liverpool).

She founded the Pamela Anderson Foundation, is an activist for Animal and Human Rights, NDVH and Environmental Issues, and is on the board of the Sea Shepherd. Pamela loves architecture and is designing Eco-friendly prefab small dwellings. She has a collection of linens, and shares time between the beaches of California and Vancouver Island equally. She is a 2013 New York City Marathon runner.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous and Vana

Family (4)

Spouse Dan Hayhurst (24 December 2020 - present)  (filed for divorce)
Jon Peters (20 January 2020 - 1 February 2020)  (annulled)
Rick Salomon (11 January 2014 - 29 April 2015)  (divorced)
Rick Salomon (6 October 2007 - 24 March 2008)  (annulled)
Kid Rock (3 August 2006 - 1 February 2007)  (divorced)
Tommy Lee (19 February 1995 - 28 February 1998)  (divorced)  (2 children)
Children Dylan Jagger Lee
Brandon Thomas Lee
Parents Barry Anderson
Carol Anderson
Relatives Gerry Anderson (sibling)

Trade Mark (2)

Curvaceous, buxom figure
Platinum blonde hair

Trivia (58)

Attended and graduated from Highland Secondary School in Comox, British Columbia in 1985.
Pamela's paternal grandfather, Herman Anderson, was Finnish, and was the son of Juho Hyytiainen, who had changed his name to Anderson, and Rachel Evelyn Solmie, with roots in Hyytiälä Alapiha, Saarijärvi. Pamela's other ancestry includes English, German, Scottish, Irish, and Northern Irish. Her maternal grandmother's family, the Friesens, were ethnic Germans from Chortitza Colony, a Mennonite colony in Russia.
She had her breast implants removed. [April 1999]
Her husband Tommy Lee was sentenced to six months in jail for assaulting her last February. [May 1998]
Filed for divorce after husband, Tommy Lee, was arrested for spousal abuse after allegedly assaulting her. [February 1998]
Both of her children were born at home with the help of a midwife.
Was sued for $5 million after pulling out of the film Hello, She Lied (1996). The judge ruled that Anderson had not entered a legally binding agreement. [May 1997]
Ranked #11 of Sci-Fi's Sexy 50, by Femme Fatales magazine. [1997]
Reunited with Tommy Lee to support his fight against alcoholism. [December 1996]
Playboy Playmate of the Month February 1990.
Was discovered when stadium's electronic scoreboard camera focused on her as a spectator watching a BC Lions' Canadian Football League game.
Pamela's representatives have confirmed that she has dropped the "Lee" from her last name. [June 2000]
Engaged to Swedish model Marcus Schenkenberg. Met him at the World Music Awards in Monaco in April. [August 2000]
She is a vegan and animal rights activist.
Obsessive fan Christine Roth pled guilty to breaking and entering into Pamela's Malibu home. Roth was sentenced to be returned to her native France for counseling. Roth had been discovered sleeping in Anderson's home on March 6. [2001]
Known first as a spokesmodel for Labatts beer.
Was the first Canadian baby born in Ladysmith Canada's Centennial Day in 1967, A Centennial Baby.
Announced that she has Hepatitis C by sharing a tattoo needle with her ex-husband Tommy Lee. The tattoo needle was used to make the barb-wire rings on her left arm. She is undergoing outpatient treatment for the disease at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center.
Engaged to Kid Rock on April 11, 2002
Has appeared a record 14 times on the cover of Playboy.
In 1999, won the Linda McCartney Award for animal rights protectors.
Became a United States citizen in April 2004 but will still keep her Canadian citizenship.
In May 2004, she wrote a $20,000 cheque to gymnast Mohini Bhardwaj after reading a story where Mohini said she could not afford to compete at the United States Olympic Trials. Anderson attended the United States Olympic Gymnastic trials in Anaheim on June 26-27 with a "Go Mo" sign.
Named E!'s #1 Ultimate Blonde Award [2004]
Ranked #9 on VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties
Ranked #17 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World". [2002]
She got to know Tommy Lee on December 31,1994 at a Hollywood club called Sanctuary and had their first date after 6 weeks later. They got married 96 hours after their first date on February 19,1995.
Good friends with ex-husband Tommy Lee.
She was voted most powerful female Canadian in Hollywood by a Canadian economic magazine in 2005.
Named #40 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.
Named #8 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.
To protest against the use of fur for making clothes, she posed naked in the window of Stella McCartney's store in London. [June 2006]
Among the guests at her wedding to Kid Rock were Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber, Afef Jnifen, David Furnish, Tommy Hilfiger and Tamara Mellon, 'David LaChapelle' and 'Luca Pizzaroni' .
Married Kid Rock on a yacht moored near Saint-Tropez, France.
Besides exchanging vows in Saint-Tropez, she and Kid Rock also symbolically married in Detroit, Nashville and Malibu.
Former stepmother of Kid Rock's son Robert James Ritchie.
She and Kid Rock were officially married on August 3, 2006 in a Beverly Hills courthouse, but held their first wedding ceremony earlier on July 29, 2006 in Saint-Tropez, France.
Named #24 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement.
Former sister-in-law of Jill Ritchie.
In 2007, she began producing films alongside her brother Gerry Anderson.
Finnish magazine, Image, released an article which discovers that Anderson is related to several famous Finns, former presidents of Finland (Urho Kekkonen and Mauno Koivisto), a Finnish prime minister (Matti Vanhanen), a Finnish composer (Toivo Kuula) and to Finnish parliamentarians Rosa Meriläinen and Esko Aho.
Her father, Barry, was a furnace repairman and her mother, Carol, was a waitress.
Is the author of two novels: "Star" and "Starstruck".
Auditioned for the role of Rennie in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), but lost out to Jensen Daggett.
Mother, with ex-husband Tommy Lee, of sons Brandon Thomas Lee (Brandon Thomas Lee; b. June 6, 1996) and Dylan Jagger Lee (Dylan Jagger Lee; b. December 29, 1997).
Before having her sons in 1996 and 1997 with husband Tommy Lee, she miscarried their first child in June 1995. In November 2006, she suffered her second miscarriage during marriage to Kid Rock.
Pam and her brother, Gerry Anderson ran the New York City Marathon. [November 2013]
She wrote a letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2015 urging that a shipping vessel carrying endangered fin whale meat be blocked from passing through Russian waters. Since then, she's visited the Kremlin and met with scads of Russian officials: Putin even invited her to his inauguration so that she could hand him flowers at the ceremony. Anderson couldn't make it. [2018]
On July 3, 2014, she filed for divorce from her 4th husband of 5 months Rick Salomon, but they reconciled 2 weeks later and called off the divorce on August 21, 2014. She had filed for divorce from him yet again less than 6 months later in February 2015.
Had relationship with Baywatch co-star and former world champion surfer Kelly Slater.
Friends with David Hasselhoff, Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber, Ellen DeGeneres, and Marlon Wayans.
Was named the most powerful Canadian. [August 2005]
Counts British fashion icon Vivienne Westwood as a personal mentor. Westwood introduced her to Julian Assange with whom she's had many meetings since he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2012.
Since 2016 she has lived in Marseille in the south of France while renting her Malibu (CA) home for $50,000 per month. In June 2017 she began a romance with French soccer star Adil Rami who plays for Marseille.
Wore a white bikini when she wed Kid Rock.
She's appeared on Playboy magazine's cover 14 times, more than any other person.
She and Jon Peters had a relationship for a short time in 1989. They got back together 30 years later, in late 2019, and married on January 20, 2020. Twelve days after the wedding, on February 1, 2020 it was announced they had their marriage annulled. September 5, 2020, she said they never married.
Is portrayed by Lily James in Pam & Tommy (2022).

Personal Quotes (17)

What I know in life runs the gamut of the "feminist experience". The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
I don't know if I'd recommend surgery - Women's bodies are beautiful - I've had a love/hate relationship with my breasts my whole life. (New York Post)
I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.
With low expectations, it's very easy to surprise people.
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror. (My mom's quote)
We must educate ourselves and our children to understand that porn is for losers, they write, a boring, wasteful and dead-end outlet for people too lazy to reap the ample rewards of healthy sexuality.
[on Julian Assange] We talk about the world. He's a very good teacher. Julian is one of my favorite people. He is a refugee. He might be the most famous, refugee of our time - famous for being persecuted. [2017]
[on Julian Assange] Julian is trying to free the world by educating it. It is a romantic struggle - I love him for this. I understand that our 'affair' and the curiosity surrounding that might bring some attention to his situation. That's fine, but I'd rather not go into private details. Let's just say everyone deserves love. [2017]
[why WikiLeaks is the only trustworthy source of information] There are people in the world that don't question authority. They just think, 'Oh, somebody smarter than me has figured it out, and I'm gonna go on with my day and I don't have any feeling about it because I'm too busy.' I think that's dangerous. [2018]
[on Julian Assange] We talk about everything. We talk about the Bible, we talk about what's happening with my kids, what's happening with his family. It's not just about politics, even though I do take a lot of notes and it's so overwhelming, the information he gives me. [2018]
[on Hugh Hefner] I hate when people say bad things about him because I believe he empowered women and I believe he did so many great things for civil rights. I say Playboy was my university. I learned about activism, I learned about art, I learned about artists, and there were always really colorful, wonderful people there. It wasn't seedy or salacious or sleazy. It was cool. [2018]
[on her most unpleasant casting, for the Steven Seagal movie Under Siege (1992)] I remember him saying to me, "If you don't do it, then that girl across the hall will do it, and she'll get the job." And I said, "Well, good, goodbye." [2018]
[on sexual misconduct during castings] You need to have that Spidey sense or whatever it is that this is not right. When someone answers the door in a bathrobe, don't go in that room. Or if you go in the room, get that role. [Laughs] Sorry, now I'm really in trouble. I remember Revlon and Guess Jeans both offered me huge campaigns, and I didn't feel right about going into a room and sitting on a bed. I just had this sense that this was not going to go well. [2018]
I speak at the Kremlin or I speak at Vladivostok at the economic conference about green energy and a green economy. And I don't know what people are expecting from me. I can talk about whales and the environment, biodiversity of the oceans. I can talk about anything I want because I think people are still looking at me, trying to figure out, 'Why is she here?' [2018]
[when her first starring vehicle, Barb Wire (1996), was introduced to buyers at Cannes in 1995] This is before we shot one frame of film. It was so out of control. Boats were running into each other and people were falling off the boats with cameras. I was in complete shock. [2018]
[if Hugh Hefner exploited women] He's empowered so many women and broke down walls. We exploited ourselves. We had the choice to do it, and we weren't vulnerable in that way that he was exploiting us.
[first time posing for Playboy] Doing that first photoshoot gave me this little kind of portal on what it felt like to be a sensual woman. My sexuality was mine. I took my power back.

Salary (1)

Baywatch (1989) $60,000 /episode

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