Biography
Pamela Reed (born April 2, 1949) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her TV roles as Roberta Deeks on NCIS: LA, Marlene Griggs-Knope on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, matriarch Gail Green on Jericho, Judge Sydney J. Solomon on the sitcom The Home Court, Denise Lerner on the sitcom Family Album, Janice Pasetti on the sitcom Grand, Mary Welsh on the miniseries Hemingway, T.J. Cavanaugh on the miniseries Tanner '88, and Sandy Farrell on The Andros Targets. Her best known fi...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Burial
2023
as Annette O'Keefe
When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family bu...

Language Arts
2021
as Sister Giorgia
The film follows Allison Forche-Marlow, a beautiful, bright, determined, and organized woman, who never gives up trying to heal her autistic son, whom...

The Long Dumb Road
2018
as Dotty
Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across th...

Outside In
2018
as Aunt Bette
An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.

Savannah Sunrise
2016
as Loraine Miles
Joy and her family fly to help her mother-in-law Loraine with the difficult move from her home in Louisville, Kentucky 600 miles away to a retirement ...

The Architect
2016
as Colin's Mother
When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect, who proceeds to build HIS dream ...

Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
2005
as Fran Henkel
The Declaration Of Independence is stolen while on display in a Los Angeles bank. The NSA, with the assistance of a puzzle solver (Code Name: Jane Doe...

Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
2005
as Esther Shapiro
Behind the scenes of Aaron Spelling's nighttime soap opera.

Life of the Party
2005
as Evelyn
A group of friends plan an intervention to help their pal address his drinking problem. Things go awry when the shrink they hired fails to show up

Proof of Life
2000
as Janis Goodman
When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enlists special agent Terry Thorne to help free him. H...

Standing on Fishes
1999
as Janice
Set in contemporary LA, the twisted journey of a sculptor unfolds, in his never-ending battle to maintain artistic integrity and still make a living.

Why Do Fools Fall In Love
1998
as Judge Lambrey
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, former...

Carriers
1998
as Holly Parker
A military woman and a worried mother travel overseas and to New Mexico to investigate a deadly virus.

Bean
1997
as Alison Langley
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him f...

Santa Fe
1997
as Nancy Vigil
A cop finds that his wife and daughter are involved in a New Age cult when he returns home after eight months.

Critical Choices
1996
as Arlene Dickens
A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend...

The Man Next Door
1996
as Wanda Gilmore
Residents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area.

Deadly Whispers
1995
as Carol Acton
Tom Acton, a devoted family man, has worked tirelessly in order to achieve success. However, his dreams are shattered when his teenage daughter Kathy ...

Junior
1994
as Angela
A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out...

Born Too Soon
1993
as Elizabeth Mehren
American television film about the life of Emily Butterfield, a baby girl who was born prematurely and died 53 days after her birth.

Bob Roberts
1992
as Carol Cruise
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by sing...

Passed Away
1992
as Terry Scanlan Pinter
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of...

Woman With a Past
1992
as Dee Johnson
A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in...

Kindergarten Cop
1990
as Det. Phoebe O'Hara
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord wh...

Cadillac Man
1990
as Tina
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe h...

Caroline?
1990
as Grace Carmichael
Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his u...

Chattahoochee
1990
as Earlene
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.

Rachel River
1988
as Mary Graving
A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.

The Best of Times
1986
as Gigi Hightower
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

The Clan of the Cave Bear
1986
as Iza
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would ...

Scandal Sheet
1985
as Helen Grant
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoho...

The Goodbye People
1984
as Nancie Scot
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he...

Heart of Steel
1983
as Valerie
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him i...

The Right Stuff
1983
as Trudy Cooper
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history b...

I Want to Live
1983
as Edie Bannister
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her partici...

Young Doctors in Love
1982
as Nurse Norine Sprockett
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order...

Eyewitness
1981
as Linda Mercer
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. ...

Inmates: A Love Story
1981
as Sunny
Accountant Roy is sentenced to prison because he cooked up balances. He hopes that his companions, who profited from his cheat, will help him to a rev...

Melvin and Howard
1980
as Bonnie Dummar
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

The Long Riders
1980
as Belle Starr
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin the...

All's Well That Ends Well
1978
as Helena
Video recording of a 1978 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Directed for stage by Wilford Leach and videotaped by Jaime Caro.