Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 03, 1950
Place of Birth
Fukuoka, Japan
Credits
50 titles
Victoria Principal
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork
Self
Titans
Gwen Williams
Jack & Jill
Cecilia Barrett
Family Guy
Dr. Amanda Rebecca (voice)
Providence
Donna Tupperman
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self / Pamela Ewing (archive footage)
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Leila Parker
Love in Another Town
Maggie Sorrell
The Practice
Courtney Hansen
Just Shoot Me!
Roberta
The Abduction
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self
Dancing in the Dark
Anna Forbes
Chicago Hope
Herself
Beyond Obsession
Eleanor DiCarlo
Intimate Portrait
Self
River of Rage: The Taking of Maggie Keene
Maggie Keene
The Larry Sanders Show
Victoria Principal
Midnight's Child
Executive Producer
Seduction: Three Tales from the 'Inner Sanctum'
Patty / Sylvia
The Burden of Proof
Margy Allison
Home Improvement
Les Thompson
Don't Touch My Daughter
Linda Hemmings
Secrets to Beautiful Skin
Self
Sparks: The Price of Passion
Patricia Sparks
Blind Witness
Maggie Kemlich
Naked Lie
Joanne Dawson
Mistress
Rae Colton
Not Just Another Affair
Dr. Diana Dawson
exclusiv
Self
Wogan
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Sixty Years of Seduction
Self - Presenter
Pleasure Palace
Patti Flynn
Fridays
Self
Greatest Heroes of the Bible
Queen Esther
Dallas
Pamela Barnes Ewing
The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Reba Bar Lev
Fantasy Island
Michelle
Vigilante Force
Linda Christopher
I Will, I Will...For Now
Jackie Martin
Last Hours Before Morning
Yolanda Marquez
Earthquake
Rosa Amici
Love Story (US)
Karen
The Naked Ape
Cathy
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Maria Elena
Banacek
Brooke Collins
Hawaii Five-O
Dolores Sandover
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self