
Pamela Dunlap
Biography
Pamela Dunlap is known for many movie roles starting on Ironside (1967), more recently I Am Sam (2001), The Holiday (2006), Changeling (2008), and most recently Wetlands (2017). She is known for many guest appearances on television series, Happy Days (1974), Law & Order (1990), Boston Legal (2004), and five appearances on Mad Men (2007), Castle (2009), Girls (2012), and Maron (2013). She is bi-coastal, living in New York City and Los Angeles, California USA. While in New York she has been seen on Broadway in "Musical Comedy Murders of 1940," "Redwood Curtain," and "Yerma," and in several Off-Broadway roles. In Southern California, she has performed at the Los Angeles Ahmanson Theater, Costa Mesa South Coast Repertory, LA Theatre Works, and the Los Angeles Fountain Theater. At The Fountain she played Rochelle - a middle-aged, out-of-shape Jewish woman who's undergoing a crisis of faith - Dunlap was persuaded to join a flamenco class for other middle-aged, women. The production united two of the Fountain's specialties - plays and the subject of flamenco.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances

The Patricia Neal Story
as Speech Therapist
1981

Bloody Mama
as Rembrandt
1970

Amos
as Leah
1985

Clean and Sober
as Jane
1988

The List
as Ruby
2016

The Wedding Party
as Aunt Sylvia
2016

16 to Life
as Kate's Grandma
2009

Pleasures
as Elaine
1986

Fourth Grade
as Vera
2021

Funny Pages
as Judge
2022

Cannon
as Laverne Holley
1971

The Holiday
as Woman on Plane
2006

Retribution
as Sally Benson
1987

Mothers of the Bride
as Elaine Stansbury
2015

Mind the Gap
as Elsa
2004

Changeling
as Mrs. Fox
2008

The O.J. Simpson Story
as Therapist
1995

I Am Sam
as Grace
2001

Sin
as ER Nurse
2003

For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal
as Supervisor Maryann
1996
TV Appearances

St. Elsewhere
as Marlene
1982

Third Watch
as Head Nurse
1999

How I Met Your Mother
as Miss Cruickshank
2005

Law & Order
as Judge Alice Crawford
1990

The Guardian
as Agent Calfas
2001

Judging Amy
as Mrs. Chancer
1999

Bones
as Mrs. Jenkins
2005

Charmed
as Janice
1998

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Mrs. Elliot
1999

Mannix
1967

Happy Days
1974

Frasier
as Shirley
1993