Pamela is one of Australia’s most prolific and highly awarded actors. She last appeared with the MSO in 2021 narrating Melody Eötvös’ The Ruler of The Hive, a work that she premiered with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Notable musical collaborations include performing with the Kronos Quartet at the inaugural Womad Earthstation in 2012.
Her work in television includes The Secret Life of Us, Mercury, The Bite, Stingers, Fucking Adelaide, The Hunting, Rosehaven, Deadloch, Bay of Fires and Wentworth, for which she won a Silver Logie award for Most Outstanding Actress in 2018, and the AACTA award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama in 2015. Pamela has appeared in several feature films including Sirens alongside Hugh Grant and Sam Neill, Paradise Road, Vacant Possession, Cosi, and The Well, for which she won the 1997 AFI, Stockholm Film Festival and Variety Club awards for Best Actress.
For her work in theatre and musicals, she has received 3 Helpmann Best Actress Awards for The Children, The Glass Menagerie and Grey Gardens, 8 Green Room Awards, a Sydney Critics’ Circle Award and a “Mo” Award. Other notable credits include The Cherry Orchard, Ghosts, A Little Night Music, A Room of One’s Own, Much Ado About Nothing, The Wizard of Oz, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and, while a founding member of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Actors’ Ensemble, several acclaimed productions including Mother Courage and Her Children, Benedict Andrews’ The War of the Roses and The Season at Sarsaparilla, and Barry Kosky’s The Lost Echo. Pamela has also directed plays for the Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and the Malthouse Theatre. Pamela is currently performing in the European tour of The National Theatre (UK) production of Alexander Zeldin’s The Confessions.
