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Actress Pam Dawber grew up in a suburb of Detroit. Her career began to take off when a friend who was going to New York suggested that Pam accompany her and bring along her modeling portfolio to show various New York modeling agents. A pretty girl, Pam had done some modeling in Detroit where she was attending Oakland Community College, and she had also worked as a model and singer in several auto trade shows. One of the top modeling agencies in New York signed Pam to an exclusive contract, and she was soon being seen in magazine advertisements and on TV commercials but Pamela was more interested in acting than in modeling. She began studying voice and acting. A leading role in a stock production of a musical comedy called “Sweet Adeline” at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, led to her being auditioned for a major role on a new TV series called “Tabitha” (1977). To her disappointment, Pam did not get the part, but she did get an important role in the Robert Altman f
Pam Dawber (born October 18, 1951 in Farmington Township, Michigan) is an American actress, best known for her title roles as Mindy McConnell in the 1978-1982 sitcom Mork & Mindy and as Samantha Russell in My Sister Sam (1986-88). Dawber has a four-octave soprano voice. Biography Dawber attended North Farmington High School and Oakland Community College. She began her career as a fashion model with Wilhelmina Models and went on to a career as an actress. From 1978 to 1982, she played one of the title roles in the ABC sitcom Mork & Mindy: Mindy McConnell, the comedic foil and eventual love interest for the extraterrestrial Mork from the planet “Ork”, played by Robin Williams. The show was extremely popular in its debut season, when it averaged at #3 in the Nielsen Ratings for the year. Dawber got to use her four-octave soprano voice in a 1980s Los Angeles Civic Light Opera production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, based on the Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival
