Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson is an artist who has combined her work as an actress with a passionate commitment to philanthropy and advocacy, leaving a lasting mark on the cultural imagination.
With several projects on the horizon, this summer Pamela Anderson appeared on the big screen in a starring role opposite Liam Neeson in Paramount’s Naked Gun reboot, which recently won the Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Film. Anderson earned widespread critical praise for her role, which was highlighted as one of Indiewire’s “Best Performances of 2025. The Akiva Schaffer-directed film made over $100 million at the box office. Also this past summer, Anderson completed a run in the prestigious Williamstown Theatre Festival’s production of “Camino Real,” directed by Dustin Wills. Anderson played Marguerite, a character from Alexandre Dumas’ Camille. Anderson will appear next in Karim Aïnouz’s “Rosebush Pruning” along with Riley Keough, Callum Turner, Elle Fanning, Jamie Bell, Lucas Gage and Tracy Letts, premiering at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival. She recently completed filming the feature drama “Somedays,” opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Kornel Mondruczo’s “Place to Be,” in which she plays Ellen Burstyn’s daughter, next to Taika Waititi and Murray Bartlett. Anderson will star in Michael Cera’s feature directorial debut, “Love is not the Answer,” co-starring Steeve Coogan and Jamie Dornan, which shot this past fall, followed by “Queen of the Falls,” directed by Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, in which she will star opposite Guy Pierce. She will then begin work on Sally Potter’s film “Alma” alongside Dakota Fanning and Lindsay Duncan.
Anderson starred in the Gia Coppola-directed “The Last Showgirl,” for which she had been nominated in the Lead Actress category for Golden Globe, SAG and Gotham Awards. The feature premiered to rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival, then screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Award, the Zurich Film Festival at which Anderson received the Golden Eye Award, the Savannah Film Festival at which Anderson received the Marquee Award, the Miami Film Festival at which Anderson received the Art of Light Acting Award and the Sun Valley Film Festival at which she received the Pioneer Award. IndieWire later bestowed the Performance Award on Anderson at its IndieWire Honors ceremony. For her performance, in Variety Aaron Sorkin wrote how “one scene after another, she keeps astonishing us” and notes Anderson gave “one of the finest performances of this or any year.” The New York Times called Anderson “dazzling” and noted her “ability to be wholly vulnerable onscreen is rare and wonderful.” Deadline and BBC called Anderson “a revelation” and Hollywood Reporter called her “transformative performance” “undeniably affecting.” Time Magazine included Anderson’s performance on its list of the “10 Best Movie Performances of 2024.”
Anderson, along with her sons Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee, recently launched a film and television company called And-Her-Sons Productions. Its first announced project will be a series remake of “Barb Wire” with Universal. In addition to her ongoing film and television work, Anderson has founded and owns, along with her sons, Sonsie Skincare, a sustainable, vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand that celebrates balanced living. Anderson feels she is Sonsie’s garden fairy godmother.
In 2023, Anderson released her New York Times bestselling memoir “Love, Pamela” and starred in the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary produced by her son Brandon, “Pamela, A Love Story,” both of which gave an intimate and true glimpse into her journey. In 2024, Anderson released her first cookbook, “I Love You: Recipes from the Heart,” which also became a New York Times bestseller. She continues to write via her popular weekly Substack newsletter “The Open Journal with Pamela Anderson.”
Among her other recent acting work, Anderson made her Broadway debut in 2022 as Roxy Hart in Chicago, for which she received critical acclaim across the board and a Playbill Award. Anderson’s starring in the musical served as a moment of reinvention and a new direction in her career.
Anderson’s film and television career began with her role as Lisa the “Tool Time” girl on ABC’s hit series “Home Improvement.” She then joined Baywatch, which became the most-watched series in the world, with over 1.1 billion viewers weekly. Among other projects, Anderson later starred in the film “Barb Wire” and the television series VIP, which she co-created with J.F. Lawton.
Anderson was born and raised in Ladysmith, Canada, where she currently manages a sustainable vegetable farm and cares for her elderly parents.