Biography of Pamela Martin (a.k.a.: Pamela Sue Martin)

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 , 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 , producer Irwin Allen cast her to co-star with five Academy Award winners in The Poseidon Adventure . Then came a starring role in the ABC Movie of the Week The Girls of Huntington House and a co-starring role with Jan-Michael Vincent in Buster and Billie . She is particularly proud of her portrayal in the production, The Hemingway Play . She has played the character Celia Grey in the television movie, Strong Medicine and has hosted "Saturday Night Live." Pamela enjoys athletic pursuits, especially scuba diving, tennis and skiing. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous Pamela Sue Martin was born in Westport, Connecticut, USA and, while she was a junior in high school, a friend suggested she try modeling. She signed with a New York modeling agency and gradually got into doing television commercials. She dropped out of school for part her senior year to do a film called To Find a Man . She later returned to class and graduated. Pamela Sue Martin is best known for her enormously popular portrayal of Fallon Carrington Colby on the prime time soap opera Dynasty . She also has a hugely successful film career. In theatre, she performed in the plays "Private Eyes" and "Beau Jeste". Her father is a jazz drummer and she has a sister six years older than her.