Pamela Anderson set for lifetime achievement award previously won by Angelina Jolie
Pamela Anderson is set to be honoured with a prestigious lifetime achievement award at Torino Film Festival.
Pamela Anderson is set to receive a lifetime achievement award at Torino Film Festival.
The 59-year-old actress and model will be in Italy for the National Film Museum's annual event, which runs from November 24 to December 2, where she will introduce a special screening of 2024's The Last Showgirl.
Torino Film Festival artistic director Giulio Base said in a statement to Variety: “Movies can sometimes work wonders, like making us [really] meet for the first time someone we’ve known all our lives.
"With The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson gave us this experience.
"We thought we knew everything about her, but in this film every gesture of hers revealed a sensitivity as a performer that is both moving and surprising."
Pamela's leading role as veteran showgirl Shelly Gardner in Gia Coppola's movie earned her a 2025 Golden Globes nomination, and sparked a comeback on the big screen.
She will receive the Stella della Mole Award, which has previously been won by the likes of Spike Lee, Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas.
As well as accepting the prize, Pamela will hold an on-stage conversation before the screening of The Last Showgirl.
Pamela, who cemented herself as a global sex symbol playing lifeguard Casey Jean 'C.J.' Parker in Baywatch from 1992 until 1997, won critical acclaim for her role, and made it clear she wanted to take on more difficult parts going forward.
Back in early 2025, she told The Graham Norton Show: "There are lots of things in the works, so I am deciding what I want to do next.
"I want challenging roles, I want to transform and see what I am made of. I feel like I have only just scratched the surface."
Around the same time, Pamela described acting as a "lonely" experience.
She wrote for PEOPLE magazine: "Acting is a survival mechanism. We all do it. To make a career of it is a blessing.
"From a young child who learned to smile and carry on in the face of despair … to a student struggling, searching, experimenting and torturing ourselves in acting class - or both - we learn as we go. And there is a different route to get here for all of us. This is an industry of misfits."
Pamela has endured lots of ups and downs in her career, and she was able to relate to her on-screen character in The Last Showgirl.
She explained: "Being an artist is solitary, lonely and full of secrets.
"I’ve been there. I’ve been objectified at times, and written off. I’ve made mistakes, reinvented myself time and again.
"And, I’ve also given up - but found that when I thought it was the end, it was truly the beginning.
"The character of Shelly in The Last Showgirl carries all these feelings, hopes and desires. She has found her calling, her meaning and her way to cope - and it’s being ripped out from under her."
Since the movie dropped two years ago, Pamela has appeared in The Naked Gun, Rosebush Pruning and Place To Be.
She's got more lined up too with Alma, Love Is Not The Answer and Somedays all in post production.
