BC’s own Pamela Anderson stars as a Las Vegas showgirl ending a 30-year-run in The Last Showgirl, which gets its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival tonight.
Shelley (Pamela Anderson) has been a Las Vegas showgirl for over 30 years, the feather and crystal–adorned centrepiece of Sin City’s last remaining traditional floor show. The stage and the women she shares it with are her loving, bickering, sequin-clad family. When the stage manager Eddie (Dave Bautista, an island of masculinity in a sea of women) announces the show will close permanently in two weeks, Shelley and her co-workers must make decisions for their future. But the future looks different when you are 50 rather than 20, and your sole job skill is dancing.
Emotionally floundering, Shelley tries to reconnect with a daughter she hardly knows, which proves just as difficult as losing the only job she has ever had. Bolstered by her best friend Annette (Jamie Lee Curtis), a brash cocktail waitress who laughs a little too loud and too often, Shelley must find her place in a world that she shut the (stage) door on years before.
Career Resurgence:
Pamela Anderson’s recent projects Include bio-doc Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth released on Netflix in 2023 . This was the former Bay Watch star’s bid to take control of her own narrative after Hulu’s Pam & Tommy series, with Lily James and Sebastian Stan, dissected her marriage to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee and the scandal of their stolen sex tape.
Pamela’s Garden of Eden series followed her restoration of her grandmother’s property in Ladysmith on Vancouver Island.
In early 2024, Pamela Anderson filmed The Last Showgirl in Las Vegas in just 18 days.
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And then in the Spring of 2024, Anderson co-starred in the Naked Gun remake with Liam Neeson, which shot in Atlanta and will be in theatres August 1, 2025.