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Victoria Principal
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Victoria Principal (born January 3, 1950) is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and author, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the American primetime tele…
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Victoria Principal (born January 3, 1950) is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and author, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the American primetime television soap opera series Dallas. After her debut in John Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) (opposite Paul Newman), she earned a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer. After a few disappointing films, Principal decided to leave acting and became a Hollywood talent agent and booking agent, which was her profession from 1975 to late 1977. She then had ambitions to study at law school, and would support herself if needed through small acting roles on television, rather than in feature films, so as to fund her future college tuition. In 1977, she made a return to acting in a guest appearance on the pilot of the television series Fantasy Island which aired on the ABC network, and in the 1977 television film The Night They Took Miss Beautiful on the NBC network. The initial offer to return to acting came when television producer Aaron Spelling directly offered Principal a role in the pilot of his television series Fantasy Island, which she accepted on the condition that the contract stipulated for her role to be written out of the ongoing series, as she was reportedly planning to attend law school. When Principal obtained the pilot audition script for Dallas, her academic career ambitions changed, and she decided to return to the full-time acting profession.
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2004
Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork
Movie Self
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2000
Titans
TV show Gwen Williams
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1999
Jack & Jill
TV show Cecilia Barrett
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1999
Family Guy
TV show Dr. Amanda Rebecca (voice)
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1999
Providence
TV show Donna Tupperman
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1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage)
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1998
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Movie Leila Parker
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1997
Love in Another Town
Movie Maggie Sorrell
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1997
The Practice
TV show Courtney Hansen
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1997
Just Shoot Me!
TV show Roberta
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1996
The Abduction
Movie
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1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV show Self
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1995
Dancing in the Dark
Movie Anna Forbes
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1994
Chicago Hope
TV show Herself
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1994
Beyond Obsession
Movie Eleanor DiCarlo
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1993
Intimate Portrait
TV show Self
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1993
River of Rage: The Taking of Maggie Keene
Movie Maggie Keene
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1992
The Larry Sanders Show
TV show Victoria Principal
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1992
Midnight's Child
Movie Executive Producer
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1992
Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum'
Movie Patty / Sylvia
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1992
The Burden of Proof
TV show Margy Allison
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1991
Home Improvement
TV show Les Thompson
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1991
Don't Touch My Daughter
Movie Linda Hemmings
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1991
Secrets to Beautiful Skin
Movie Self
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1990
Sparks: The Price of Passion
Movie Patricia Sparks
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1989
Blind Witness
Movie Maggie Kemlich
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1989
Naked Lie
Movie Joanne Dawson
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1987
Mistress
Movie Rae Colton
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1982
Not Just Another Affair
Movie Dr. Diana Dawson
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1982
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TV show Self
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1982
Wogan
TV show Self
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1982
Night of 100 Stars
Movie Self
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1981
Sixty Years of Seduction
Movie Self - Presenter
- 1981
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1980
Pleasure Palace
Movie Patti Flynn
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1980
Fridays
TV show Self
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1978
Greatest Heroes of the Bible
TV show Queen Esther
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1978
Dallas
TV show Pamela Barnes Ewing
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1977
The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Movie Reba Bar Lev
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1977
Fantasy Island
Movie Michelle
