Pamela Salem
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Pamela Salem is a British film and television actress. She was born in Bombay, India, and educated at Heidelberg University in Germany and later at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.
She is best-remembered on television for her guest roles in two instalments of the BBC's hugely popular science-fiction series Doctor Who: as Toos in The Robots of Death (1977) and as Professor Rachel Jensen in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988). She had previously auditioned for the role of the Fourth Doctor's companion Leela, but the role eventually went to Louise Jameson instead.
Salem was also briefly a regular in the popular soap opera EastEnders in the late 1980s, playing Joanne Francis, again on the BBC. Other television guest appearances have included roles in popular American and British series such as The West Wing, Party of Five, ER, Out of the Unknown, Blake's 7, The Professionals and Magnum P.I..
In film, she played the role of Miss Moneypenny in the 'unofficial' 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery. She also appeared in Michael Crichton's The First Great Train Robbery (1979, another film which also starred Sean Connery) and in Gods and Monsters (1998).
She is married to the actor Michael O'Hagan.
[edit] External links
- Pamela Salem at the Internet Movie Database
- Audio interview at BBC Wiltshire
