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Pamela Stephenson Connolly, nÊe Stephenson (born
December 4, 1949) is a New Zealand born,
naturalised Australian actress,
psychologist, and former comedienne, now resident
in Beverly Hills, California.

She was born in Takapuna, Auckland, New
Zealand|Auckland.

==Comedy and acting==

After attending the University of New South Wales
and then Australia's National Institute of
Dramatic Art, from which she graduated in 1971,
she pursued a successful acting career in
Australia for several years before moving to
London in 1976, where she continued to act
(theatrically and television). Probably her most
widely-recognised role was in  the classic 1980s
UK comedy television sketch show Not the Nine
O'Clock News, alongside Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith
and Griff Rhys Jones. 

It was on this programme that she met Billy
Connolly, while spoof-interviewing him in the
guise of Janet Street-Porter; they married in Fiji
on December 20, 1989. Her personal contribution as
a comedienne added to the success of Not the Nine
O'Clock News, led to a collaboration with
comedic/satirist writers Mark Lepine and Mike
Leigh which spawned a book, How to be a Complete
Bitch, and also a board game of the same name.

She has also featured in such films as Superman
III, Bloodbath at the House of Death and Mel
Brooks's History of the World Part 1.

She has recorded several singles, including
Unusual Treatment,  Italian Shoes, I Like
Truckin', The Ayatollah Song, Oh
Reginald Bosanquet|Bosanquet, and (probably)
Typing Pool as 'Pam and the Paperclips', all
(including the latter?) Not the Nine O'Clock News
tie-ins.

==Psychology==

In 1996 she gained a doctorate in clinical
psychology from the California Graduate Institute,
where she is now an adjunct professor; she also
works in private practice in Beverly Hills. She is
a highly-regarded researcher in the fields of
human sexuality and sex therapy, in particular
intersexuality and BDSM. Her psychological
background proved useful when she wrote a
biography of her husband, Billy, in which she
analysed his behaviour and related elements of it
to his being sexually abused by his father.

In her capacity as a psychologist and academic,
she uses the names "Pamela Connolly" or "P.H.
Connolly".

==External links==
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827298/ IMDb entry
*http://www.pamelaconnolly.com/website/bio/bio.htm
Biography at pamelaconnolly.com (currently
incomplete)
*http://www.pamelaconnolly.com/website/expertise/e
xpertise.htm Psychological work