Pamela Bellwood (born Pamela King, In 1971, she starred as Jill Tanner in a production of Butterflies Are Free at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. By 1972, Bellwood was on Broadway, taking over from Blythe Danner as Jill in Butterflies Are Free at the Booth Theatre, and appearing with Barbara Bel Geddes in Finishing Touches.
Early on, Bellwood was credited as Pamela Kingsley because there was already a working actress named Pamela King. Poor ratings led to the show being cancelled after only five episodes.
In her role of Claudia Blaisdel Carrington, Bellwood was an original cast member of Dynasty in January 1981, 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.
Filmography
Film
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1976
|Two-Minute Warning
|Peggy Ramsay
|
|-
|1977
|Airport '77