Pamela Sue Martin
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Pamela Sue Martin attended public schools in Westport, Connecticut and
graduated from Staples High School in February 1971. Before she
graduated, Pamela was working in a hamburger stand for $1.45 per hour
when a friend told her that she was earning $60 per hour modeling in
New York. Liking the wages and being of an ambitious nature, Pamela Sue
decided to emulate her friend and soon was earning a good living as a
teenage model for print ads and television commercials. Although she
was completely innocent of dramatic training, experience or even
ambitions, when Pamela Sue heard that Columbia Pictures was auditioning
girls for a film called
To Find a Man (1972), she decided
to try. It took the producers three months to make up their minds, but
in the end Pamela Sue had the female starring role. Pamela returned to
Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut to finish high school. On
the basis of her performance in
To Find a Man (1972), producer
Irwin Allen cast her to co-star with
five Academy Award winners in
The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
Then came a starring role in the ABC Movie of the Week
The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
and a co-starring role with
Jan-Michael Vincent in
Buster and Billie (1974). She
is particularly proud of her portrayal in the production,
The Hemingway Play (1976).
She has played the character Celia Grey in the television movie,
Strong Medicine (1986)
and has hosted "Saturday Night Live." Pamela enjoys athletic pursuits,
especially scuba diving, tennis and skiing.
