Underappreciated Actors: Pamela Reed
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Pamela Reed may best be recognized in one of several roles. She was the partner and voice of calm to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hot-headed detective in Kindergarten Cop, providing the wisdom and female perspective that allowed him to adjust from smashing heads to teaching kids.
She has also had a strong television career, including a starring role as the matriarch of a family that included Skeet Ulrich and Gerald McRaney in the popular but ill-fated series Jericho.
She has also taken on darker and more ominous roles, including the nemesis to Patrick Swayze in the detective drama The Beast.
The roles in which she has succeeded are wide and varied. She took on the acting challenge of helping carry a movie with limited dialogue in the critically acclaimed Clan of the Cave Bear, a story that took place in the age of Cro Magnon Man.
Other notable big screen appearances include Young Doctors in Love, Cadillac Man, Proof of Life, The Long Riders, The Right Stuff, The Best of Times and another appearance with Schwarzenegger in Junior.
As well, she has made a strong career of guest starring on major television series, among them United States of Tara, The Simpsons and L.A. Law.
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