Pamela Anderson announces a new career direction while also earning numerous nominations for film awards

Pamela Anderson was seemingly at the top of her game with a late-career triumph that brought her more acclaim than she had received in years.

Following the successful release of the highly acclaimed film The Last Showgirl in 2024, the 57-year-old actress found herself with more award nominations for her leading role than she had ever received throughout her entire career.

But now the film and television star is changing course with her career.

On Monday, People reported that Anderson will be taking her acting talents to the stage when she appears in a new production of a classic play.

Reports indicate that she is set to join the cast of a revival of renowned playwright Tennessee Williams’ play Camino Real, scheduled to take place at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

She will take on a starring role in the production, which first premiered in its final form back in 1953, alongside Nicholas Alexander Chavez, known for his prominent role in the popular true-crime series Monsters: The Lyle and Erick Menendez Story.

Pamela Anderson, 57, is making a major career change after earning the best reviews of her career and numerous acting nominations; pictured in February in LA

She was widely acclaimed for her 2024 drama The Last Showgirl, but now Anderson is moving into the theatre with an appearance at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts, this summer; still from The Last Showgirl

Although the play takes place in just one location, the show will feature an ensemble cast of 15 actors, and the theatre and opera director Dustin Wills will be helming the production.

Chavez will be handling Camino Real’s lead role as an American sailor named Kilroy. 

The play, which departs from the realism of some of William’s better-known plays in favor of a surrealistic, dream-like style, features Kilroy exploring a plaza at the end of a road, the eponymous Camino Real. 

In addition to the characters population the nearly empty plaza, famous literary figures — including Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the poet Lord Byron, Casanova and Esmeralda of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame fame — are featured in dream sequences. 

Anderson will be appearing as one of those literary figures: Marguerite ‘Camille’ Gautier, from Alexandre Dumas fils’ novel The Lady of the Camellias.

Anderson will be appearing in Camino Real in for three consecutive weekends, with evening performances on Saturdays and matinees on Saturdays and Sunday from July 19 through August 3.

The Baywatch star has been away from the theatre for about three years after last playing Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway.

The musical — which was adapted into the Oscar-winning film starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere — marked her debut on Broadway. 

People reported Monday that she will be appearing in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ drama Camino Real, starring Nicholas Alexander Chavez (pictured in November in LA)

Chavez — best known for starring in Monsters: The Lyle and Erick Menendez Story (pictured) with Cooper Koch (R) — will be handling Camino Real’s lead role as an American sailor named Kilroy

The surrealistic play, which stakes place in a single location, features multiple famous literary figures in dream sequences. The Baywatch star will play Marguerite ‘Camille’ Gautier, from Alexandre Dumas fils’ novel The Lady of the Camellias; seen in Baywatch (1997)

The new play marks Pamela’s return to the theatre after making her Broadway debut in 2022 as Roxie Hart in Chicago; pictured in April 2022 in NYC

‘I think I’ve been rehearsing my whole life for this,’ she said of the musical in an interview with Vogue from March 2022. 

She admitted at the time that her casting was ‘unexpected’ for many theatergoers.

Pamela has lately been experiencing a career renaissance following her turn on Broadway and her lead role in Gia Coppola’s acclaimed film The Last Showgirl.

The movie earned her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations and earned her the best reviews of her career.

Next up, she’ll be turning toward over-the-top comedy to play a femme fatale mile-a-minute jokes in the reboot of The Naked Gun, which stars Liam Neeson and Paul Walter Hauser. 

The Schindler’s List star told People in October that he was ‘madly in love’ with Anderson after their collaboration. 

‘She’s just terrific to work with. I can’t compliment her enough, I’ll be honest with you. No huge ego,’ he shared. ‘She just comes in to do the work. She’s funny and so easy to work with. She’s going to be terrific in the film.’

Pamela went on to call Neeson the ‘perfect gentleman’ and praised him for how he ‘brings out the best in you.’