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Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 560th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's

Awards Chatter podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg,

and my guest today is a Canadian actress who has been an international household name and

face for more than 30 years, having appeared on a record 15 covers of Playboy magazine,

and starred on what was once the most watch show on TV, Baywatch. The New York Times recently declared, quote,

it is hard to overstate the influence that she had on a particular era of culture, close quote,

while the independent argued that she, quote, was for a not so brief moment in time,

the most famous person on the planet, close quote.

Only recently, though, has she begun to receive widespread appreciation for something other

than her stunning beauty. Indeed, in the last two years, she made her debut on Broadway and

received rave reviews, wrote a memoir that became a New York Times bestseller, and was

featured in a documentary that received an Emmy nomination,

which brings us to her career best performance in Gia Coppola's indie film The Last Showgirl,

as a Vegas dancer whose show is suddenly set to close after a 30-year run.

For it, she was nominated in October for the Best Lead Performance Gotham Award, and today

received a nomination for the best actress in a motion picture drama Golden Globe Award,

Pamela Anderson. Over the course of our conversation at the offices of PMC, the 57-year-old and I

discussed the odds-defying way in which she was

first discovered, the way in which her life and career took off like a rocket, and then in 1995,

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