Celebrities: Pamela Bellwood - Going Native (1983)

Pamela Bellwood (born Pamela Anne King on June 26, 1951) is an American actress most famous for her role as Claudia Blaisdel Carrington on the 1980s prime time soap opera, Dynasty.



Born in New York City, Bellwood studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. In her early days of acting she was credited as Pamela Kingsley.

Bellwood was an original cast member of Dynasty in January 1981, and was written off the series early in the third season in late 1982. She appeared once in March 1983 to help usher in Jack Coleman as a recast Steven Carrington, and later returned full-time in October 1983. Bellwood remained a key character for several seasons until leaving the series a final time in 1986 to become a full-time mother. Twenty years later in 2006, Bellwood appeared alongside her former Dynasty castmates in Dynasty Reunion: Catfights & Caviar.

Bellwood posed for an eight page pictorial in the April 1983 edition of Playboy magazine.

Bellwood also appeared in such films as Two-Minute Warning, Airport '77 and The Incredible Shrinking Woman, as well as a number of TV movies. She is currently married to photographer Nik Wheeler and continues to perform in film and on stage. She is now known and often credited as Pamela Bellwood-Wheeler.