45 Facts About Pamela Stephenson

Pamela Stephenson, Lady Connolly was born on 4 December 1949 and is a New Zealand-born psychologist, writer, actress and comedian.

Pamela Stephenson moved with her family to Australia in 1953 and studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Pamela Stephenson appeared in British television shows, including Space: 1999, New Avengers, The Professionals and Tales of the Unexpected before her breakthrough role alongside Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones in the satirical sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News.

In 1981, for her part in that series, Pamela Stephenson was shortlisted for BAFTAs in the Actress and Light Entertainment performance categories.

Pamela Stephenson appeared in the films History of the World, Part I and SupermanIII, and from 1984 to 1985, she was cast in season 10 of the American comedy-sketch television show Saturday Night Live.

Since a career-change to clinical psychology and obtaining a doctorate, Pamela Stephenson has written several books, including two about her husband Billy Connolly.

Pamela Stephenson was a finalist in the eighth series of the BBC television show Strictly Come Dancing in 2010.

Pamela Stephenson was born on 4 December 1949 in Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand.

Pamela Stephenson concealed the incident but when her parents learnt of her infection, they expelled her from the family home; according to Stephenson: "I remember the feeling well, because I still experience it every time someone rejects me, even in some relatively small way".

Pamela Stephenson studied at the University of New South Wales but soon switched to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.

Pamela Stephenson appeared in the television programmes Division 4, Homicide and Matlock Police.

Pamela Stephenson then starred in the film Private Collection.

Pamela Stephenson starred as Elsie in the ABC-TV production of the opera The Yeomen of the Guard.

Pamela Stephenson played three roles in the British crime-action television series The Professionals in 1978.

Pamela Stephenson played a nurse in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers.

Pamela Stephenson gained prominence with her part in the UK sketch-comedy television show Not the Nine O'Clock News alongside Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.

Pamela Stephenson made a comedy-sketch television pilot called Pamela Stephenson's Rocket, which was not taken up.

Pamela Stephenson acted in Mel Brooks' comedy film History of the World, Part I ; she later said she found it a dull experience due the lack of influence she had over the production.

In 1982, she starred in the West End production of Joseph Papp's version of The Pirates of Penzance; The Times critic Irving Wardle wrote Pamela Stephenson "reveals unsuspected coloratura powers as Mabel, but the part wastes her comic gift".

Pamela Stephenson appeared in the music video for Landscape's single "Norman Bates" ; the video is a pastiche of Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho with Pamela Stephenson in the Janet Leigh role.

Also in 1981, Pamela Stephenson appeared in performances of Clive James's 2,000-line poem "Charles Charming's Challenges On The Pathway To The Throne", which he wrote in expectation of Prince Charles announcing his engagement.

Pamela Stephenson was the subject of an episode of Behind the Scenes with.

In 1982, Pamela Stephenson was a guest on BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs.

Pamela Stephenson's character was Lorelei Ambrosia, the Kant-reading girlfriend of the film's antagonist Ross Webster.

Pamela Stephenson starred alongside John Gielgud and Robert Hays in Scandalous, which Rob Cohen directed; critic Ben McCann said the film is "notable only for wasting the talents of all concerned".

In 1987, Pamela Stephenson appeared in Prince Edward's charity television special The Grand Knockout Tournament with many other celebrities.

Pamela Stephenson had leading parts in the black comedy film Those Dear Departed and the critically-panned and commercially unsuccessful film Les Patterson Saves the World.

Pamela Stephenson toured the one-woman theatre shows Naughty Night Nurses Without Panties Down Under and Scandalous Behaviour.

Authors Mike Lepine and Mark Leigh, who had worked with Adrian Edmondson on the 1986 comedy book How to Be a Complete Bastard, approached Pamela Stephenson to collaborate on a companion volume How to Be a Complete Bitch, which was published in 1987.

Pamela Stephenson told Candida Baker of The Age she was pleased the book was described as "sexist, violent and crude".

Pamela Stephenson made her radio acting debut in the BBC Radio 4 play The Spectre of Ernie Pike.

Pamela Stephenson presented Move Over Darling, a series of five BBC television programmes about the role of women at work and at home; the show had an all-female editorial team with Janet Street-Porter as executive producer.

Pamela Stephenson's research included an investigation into the lives of transgender people in Samoa, Tonga and India.

In 2002, Pamela Stephenson published Billy, a biography of her husband Billy Connolly, which Kirkus Reviews considered "balances wifely affection with professional analysis".

At a time when celebrities were being engaged to write advice columns, Pamela Stephenson was unusual in having a relevant qualification.

Pamela Stephenson competed in the eighth series of the BBC1 television show Strictly Come Dancing, in which she was partnered by James Jordan.

Pamela Stephenson was a guest on the BBC Radio 3 programme Private Passions in 2010, where her music choices included pieces by Vincenzo Bellini, Erik Satie and Claude Debussy.

Pamela Stephenson formed a dance company with Brazilian lambazouk dancer Braz Dos Santos, and wrote and produced a dance-drama stage production called Brazouka.

At the 1987 United Kingdom general election, Pamela Stephenson was a candidate for the Blancmange Throwers Party in the parliamentary constituency of Windsor and Maidenhead; her campaign pledges included "free blancmanges for pensioners and the unemployed".

Pamela Stephenson finished with 328 votes, the fewest of all of the candidates.

Pamela Stephenson co-founded the pressure group Parents for Safe Food group after becoming concerned about the spraying of the plant-growth-regulating chemical daminozide, which is believed to be carcinogenic, on apples and pears for human consumption.

Pamela Stephenson converted to Buddhism in 1979, shortly before she joined the cast of Not the Nine O'Clock News.

Pamela Stephenson left Ball to start a relationship with Billy Connolly, and she and Ball divorced in 1984.

Connolly and Pamela Stephenson first met in 1979, when they filmed a sketch for Not the Nine O'Clock News and had lunch together.

In 2002, on the BBC Radio 4 programme Devout Sceptics, Pamela Stephenson told Bel Mooney through Buddhism, "I could at last feel I had begun life as a wonderful piece of creation, that a person doesn't have to struggle every day to overcome darkness and sin".