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name: "Pamela Stephenson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/pamela-stephenson"
fi1m_id: "pamela-stephenson"
imdb_id: "nm0827298"
tmdb_id: 43805
wikidata_id: "Q291293"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 December 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T18:22:15.282116+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Pamela Stephenson

## Identity

Pamela Stephenson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pamela-stephenson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** pamela-stephenson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0827298
- **TMDB ID:** 43805
- **Wikidata ID:** Q291293
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Stephenson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q291293, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827298/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43805

Actor. Born 4 December 1949 in Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 December 1949, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand
- **Also known as:** Lady Connelly, Dr. Pamela Connolly, Pamela Stephenson Connolly, Pam Stephenson, Pamela Stephenson-Connelly, Dr. Pamela Stephenson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Stephenson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q291293, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827298/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43805

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Superman III*](https://film.one/film/superman-iii.md) (49)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Pamela Stephenson is a New Zealand-born actress, comedian, writer and psychologist. Born on 4 December 1949 in Takapuna, Auckland, she moved to Australia with her family in 1953 and trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. After early stage and television work in Australia, she emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1976.

She appeared in British television series including *Space: 1999* (1975), *The New Avengers* (1976) and *The Professionals* (1977). She gained prominence as a cast member of the satirical sketch show *Not the Nine O'Clock News* (1979–1982). Her film roles include Mademoiselle Rimbaud in *History of the World: Part I* (1981) and Lorelei Ambrosia in *Superman III* (1983). She has since retired from acting to practise as a clinical psychologist and is known as Lady Connolly following her marriage to comedian Billy Connolly in 1989.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, dc.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Superman III* (1983), Fi1m 49, as Lorelei Ambrosia — [page](https://film.one/film/superman-iii.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *An SNL Thanksgiving* (2024), as (archive footage)
- *Walker's Women* (2023), as Linda (archive footage)
- *Murder or Mutiny* (2006), series, Writer, Creator
- *The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News Volume Two* (2004), Actor
- *The Best of Not the Nine O'Clock News Volume One* (2003), Actor
- *Spitting Image: From F.A to Fair Play* (1996), as Various characters (Voice)
- *Plunder* (1990), series, Actor
- *Daytime Live* (1987), series, Actor
- *Those Dear Departed* (1987), as Marilyn Falcon
- *Les Patterson Saves the World* (1987), as Veronique Crudite
- *Lost Empires* (1986), series, as Lily Farris
- *Omnibus Presents Comic Relief* (1986), series, Actor
- *Television* (1985), series, Actor
- *Friday People* (1985), series, Actor
- *Finders Keepers* (1984), as Georgina Latimer
- *Bloodbath at the House of Death* (1984), as Dr. Barbara Coyle
- *Scandalous* (1984), as Fiona Maxwell Sayle
- *Superman III* (1983), as Lorelei Ambrosia — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/superman-iii.md)
- *The Kenny Everett Television Show* (1982), series, as Various
- *Doctors & Nurses* (1981), as Permanent Wave
- *History of the World: Part I* (1981), as Mademoiselle Rimbaud
- *Funny Man* (1981), series, as Iris Reade
- *Not the Nine O'Clock News* (1979), series, Actor
- *Tales of the Unexpected* (1979), series, as Cathy
- *The Comeback* (1978), as Linda Everett
- *Hazell* (1978), series, as Gloria
- *The Professionals* (1977), series, as Emma Bolding, Maggie Briggs, Attractive Blonde
- *Target* (1977), series, as Susan Clegg
- *Stand up, Virgin Soldiers* (1977), as Berenice
- *McManus MPB* (1976), as Kylie Charles
- *The New Avengers* (1976), series, as Wendy
- *Space: 1999* (1975), series, as Michelle Osgood
- *Rush* (1974), series, as Diane Quail
- *Ryan* (1973), series, Actor
- *Private Collection* (1973), as Mary-Ann Phillips
- *Willy Willy* (1971), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Pamela Stephenson](https://film.one/media/person/5543903/gallery-9b65ad59466d.jpg) Pamela Stephenson — Peter from Salisbury, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Pamela_Stephenson.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Pamela Stephenson](https://film.one/media/person/5543903/gallery-cc098196ebd3.jpg) Pamela Stephenson — Image via TMDB

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