27 Facts About Pamelyn Ferdin

Pamelyn Ferdin was born on February 4,1959 and is an American animal rights activist and former actress.

Pamelyn Ferdin began her acting career in television commercials, made 250 television shows and films and gained renown for her work as a voice actress supplying the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in A Boy Named Charlie Brown, as well as in two other Peanuts television specials.

Pamelyn Ferdin had supporting roles in The Beguiled with Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, and a lead role in the exploitation film The Toolbox Murders with Cameron Mitchell.

Pamelyn Ferdin supplied the voice of Fern Arable in Charlotte's Web.

Pamelyn Ferdin distanced herself from acting in the late 1970s, worked as a registered nurse and shifted into animal rights activism, working as an activist and protester in animal-protection programs in New York City and Los Angeles.

Pamelyn Ferdin has two older sisters, Valerie and Wendy, who acted when they were young.

Pamelyn Ferdin has said that she regretted not having many aspects of a normal childhood and that her mother pushed her into acting.

Pamelyn Ferdin put me in, and I just started getting role after role after role.

Pamelyn Ferdin was cast as Felix Unger's daughter Edna in the 1970s ABC series version of The Odd Couple and Paul Lynde's daughter Sally on the short-lived The Paul Lynde Show.

Pamelyn Ferdin appeared on Star Trek in 1968 as one of a group of orphaned children led by an alien with sinister motives in the episode "And the Children Shall Lead" and in the 1977 series Space Academy as Laura Gentry.

Pamelyn Ferdin's distinctive voice secured her voiceover roles, and she was cast to provide the voice of Lucy van Pelt in three Peanuts cartoons: the 1969 TV special It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, a 1969 feature film A Boy Named Charlie Brown and the 1971 TV special Play It Again, Charlie Brown.

Pamelyn Ferdin provided the voice of Sally, the little girl in the 1971 animated TV special of Dr Seuss's The Cat in the Hat.

Pamelyn Ferdin had a brief and uncredited role in The Reluctant Astronaut and was featured in the Walt Disney musical The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band.

Pamelyn Ferdin appeared as Mary Constable in the supernatural TV movie Daughter of the Mind and as Abby Clarkson in the horror film The Mephisto Waltz with Alan Alda.

Pamelyn Ferdin voiced Fern Arable, the little girl who raises Wilbur the pig, in the 1973 animated film Charlotte's Web.

Pamelyn Ferdin was considered for the role of Regan MacNeil, the demon-possessed girl in the 1973 William Friedkin film The Exorcist, but casting directors decided she was too well-known and cast the less familiar actress Linda Blair.

Pamelyn Ferdin's last acting roles were as the voice of the character Shelley Kelley in the Kids' WB series Detention in 1999 and as Christmas the Horse in the feature film Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse in 2008.

In 2020, Pamelyn Ferdin co-hosted two episodes of the television talk show "Ken Boxer Live" on TVSB TV, originating in Santa Barbara, California.

When Kjonaas and six other SHAC activists were jailed in 2006, Pamelyn Ferdin vowed to continue the campaign.

On June 22,2006, Pamelyn Ferdin was sentenced to 90 days in jail for trespassing and "targeted demonstration" outside the home of an employee of the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services.

Pamelyn Ferdin stated that the conviction "is not going to affect my speaking out and exposing the atrocities occurring at our six city shelters".

Pamelyn Ferdin served 36 hours and was released before serving the full sentence due to prison overcrowding.

In 2008, Pamelyn Ferdin was found in contempt of court, after allegedly violating an injunction.

Pamelyn Ferdin was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at the University of Southern California in 1978.

Pamelyn Ferdin graduated from the Los Angeles County Medical Center School of Nursing in the spring of 1981 and got her first nursing job on the medical ward at UCLA Medical Center.

Pamelyn Ferdin married Vlasak, a surgeon, on October 12,1986, but divorced him in 2008.

Pamelyn Ferdin promotes adopting rather than buying pets as well as having pets spayed or neutered.