Pamela Denise Anderson born July 1, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] is a Canadian-American actress, model and media personality. She rose to prominence after being selected as the February Playboy Playmate of the Month. She went on to make regular appearances on the magazine's cover and held the record for the most Playboy covers by any individual.
In , personal home videos of Anderson with her then-husband Tommy Lee were stolen and sold as a sex tape , which resulted in a legal fight and made her the subject of controversy.
She has appeared in her own reality series Pam: Girl on the Loose as well as the Dancing with the Stars franchise β, Anderson saw a career resurgence in the s after her Broadway debut portraying Roxie Hart in the long-running musical Chicago , the Netflix documentary Pamela, a Love Story which coincided with the release of her autobiography, Love, Pamela , and the indie-drama film The Last Showgirl , the latter of which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.
Anderson has publicly supported various charitable causes, particularly animal rights , and has endorsed PETA activities.
Anderson also has Volga German ancestry on her mother's side; her grandmother, ethnically German , was born in Russia in a Mennonite village and immigrated to Canada in Anderson suffered sexual abuse as a child, a fact she revealed publicly in She said she was molested by a female babysitter from ages 6 to 10, raped by a year-old man when she was age 12, and gang-raped by her boyfriend and six of his friends when she was In high school, she played on the volleyball team, [ 19 ] and graduated in Anderson was flown to Los Angeles for a photo shoot; she appeared as the cover girl on Playboy magazine's October issue.
