Life and career
Bellwood became interested in an acting career when she portrayed Emily in Our Town . She studied acting in New York with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and in London. [2] [3] By 1972 she was on Broadway, taking over from Blythe Danner in Butterflies Are Free and appearing with Barbara Bel Geddes in Finishing Touches. [3] Her performance in Butterflies Are Free earned her a Clarence Derwent Award in 1972. [4]
Early on, Bellwood was credited as Pamela Kingsley because there was already a working actress named Pamela King. [1] In 1974, she appeared in an episode of Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers . Later in 1974, she appeared as Jill Martin in an episode of Rhoda entitled "9-E is available". In 1978, she played the starring role of TV executive Ellen Cunningham in W.E.B. , an NBC drama about a fictional television network. [5] Poor ratings led to the show being cancelled after only five episodes.
Bellwood was an original cast member of Dynasty in January 1981, [6] and was written out of the series early in the third season, in late 1982. She appeared once in March 1983 to help usher in Jack Coleman as a recast Steven Carrington, and later returned full-time in October 1983. She remained a key character for several seasons until leaving the series a final time in 1986 to become a full-time mother. 20 years later, in 2006, she appeared with her former Dynasty castmates in the non-fiction special Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar.
Bellwood posed for an eight-page pictorial in the April 1983 edition of Playboy magazine. [3]
She also appeared in such films as Two-Minute Warning , Airport '77 and The Incredible Shrinking Woman , as well as a number of TV movies. [3] She continues to perform in film and on stage. She is now known and often credited as Pamela Bellwood-Wheeler.
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