Biography
Who is Pamela Sue Martin?
Early life and modeling start
Pamela Sue Martin was born in Westport, Connecticut. She completed her studies at Staples High School in 1971. Before finishing school, she worked at a hamburger restaurant earning one dollar and forty-five cents hourly. A friend told her about modeling jobs in New York City that paid sixty dollars an hour. This suggestion prompted her to begin working as a teen model for commercials and print advertisements at sixteen.
Transition to film and television
She auditioned for the 1972 film To Find a Man while having no prior acting training. The producers selected her for the lead female role after three months of searching. Producer Irwin Allen subsequently cast her in the 1972 disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure. She later appeared in films such as Our Time and Buster and Billie during the mid-seventies.
Her television career began at the request of her manager. She became a teen idol playing the title character on The Nancy Drew Mysteries. When the show merged with The Hardy Boys Mysteries, her role was reduced. Pamela Sue Martin left the series because of this change, with her final appearance airing on January 1, 1978. She later appeared in a Playboy magazine pictorial.
Dynasty and other roles
From 1981 through 1984, she portrayed the heiress Fallon Carrington Colby on the ABC soap opera Dynasty. She won a Bambi Award for this role in 1984. She left the program voluntarily, and the writers initially wrote her character off as missing and presumed dead. The network eventually recast the role with another performer in 1985.
Pamela hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in February 1985. In the 2000s, she served as the artistic director for the Interplanetary Theater Group located in Idaho. Her most recent screen credit occurred in 2019 when she appeared as Harriet Grosset in the pilot episode of the Nancy Drew reboot.
Personal life and advocacy
Pamela Sue Martin has been married four times. Her first husband was Charles Gates, followed by a marriage to Jorge Brusch. She was later married to Manuel Rojas for five years. Her final marriage was to Bruce Allen, with whom she had one son. She has spoken publicly about living with interstitial cystitis.
During the early eighties, she enjoyed activities such as tennis, skiing, and scuba diving. She also supported environmental causes, including an effort to save pink dolphins in the Amazon River. She appeared in a public service announcement about this cause in 1984.
Birthday and age
Pamela Sue Martin was born on January 5, 1953, which makes Pamela 73 years old today. That birthday falls under the Capricorn sign. Pamela shares the date with 27 other famous people.
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