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Pamela Stephenson (born December 4, 1949) is a New Zealand born, Naturalized Australian actor and former comedienne.
She was born in Takapuna, Auckland.
She has featured in many television series, most notably the classic 1980s UK comedy television sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News, alongside Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. It was on this programme that she met Billy Connolly, while spoof-interviewing him in the guise of Janet Street-Porter. Her personal contribution as a comedienne, added to the success of Not the Nine O'Clock News, led to a collaboration with comedic/satirist writers Mark Lepine and Mike Leigh which spawned a book, How to be a Complete Bitch, and also a board game of the same name.
She has also featured in such films as Superman III, Bloodbath at the House of Death and Mel Brooks's History of the World Part 1.
She has recorded several singles, including Unusual Treatment, Italian Shoes, I Like Truckin', The Ayatollah Song, Oh Bosanquet, and (probably) Typing Pool as 'Pam and the Paperclips', all (including the latter?) Not the Nine O'Clock News tie-ins.
She married Billy Connolly in Fiji on December 20, 1989, and has since gained a doctorate in Psychology. Her doctorate proved useful when she wrote a biography of her husband, Billy, in which she analysed his behaviour and related elements of it to his being sexually abused by his father.
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