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Pam Dawber (born October 18, 1951 in Farmington Hills, Michigan) is an American actress. She attended North Farmington High School and Oakland Community College.

Beginning as a fashion model with Wilhelmina she, as others before her, went on to a career as an actress.

She is probably still best known for her role as Mindy McConnell on the television series Mork & Mindy, which ran on ABC from 1978 to 1982. She was the comedic foil and eventual love interest for Robin Williams' character, Mork from the planet Ork. Later she starred in her own series as Samantha Russell on My Sister Sam, which ran on CBS from 1986 to 1988. She parodied her role on classic sitcoms with John Ritter in the 1992 movie Stay Tuned.

She featured as Mabel, in a Los Angeles Civic Light Opera production (based on the Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival production) of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.

She is married to actor Mark Harmon, with whom she has two sons: Sean Thomas Harmon (born April 26, 1988) and Ty Christian Harmon (born June 25, 1992).

Trivia

• Is a national spokesperson for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America.
• Has a four-octave soprano voice.
• Her interests include canoeing, cooking, and horseback riding, and swimming.
• She often wore dress knee-high boots on Mork & Mindy

Films & TV movies

• Don't Look Behind You (1999) - Liz Corrigan
• I'll Remember April (1999) - Barbara Cooper
• A Stranger to Love (1995) - Andie
• Trail of Tears (1999) - Cheryl Harris
• A Child's Cry for Help (1994) - Monica Shaw
• Web of Deception (1994) - Ellen Benesch
• The Man with Three Wives (1993) - Robyn
• Stay Tuned (1992) - Helen Knable
• The Face of Fear (1990) - Connie Weaver
• Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989) - Kendra Dollison
• Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story (1988) - Lucy Wedemeyer
• American Geisha (1986) - Gillian Burke
• Wild Horses (1985) - Daryl Reese
• This Wife for Hire (1985) - Marsha Harper
• Last of the Great Survivors (1984) - Laura Matthews
• Through Naked Eyes (1983) - Anne Walsh
• Remembrance of Love (1982) - Marcy Rabin
• The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything (1980) - Bonny Lee Beaumont
• A Wedding (1978) - Tracy Farrell

Television series

• Life... and Stuff (1997) - Ronnie Boswell
• My Sister Sam (1986-88) - Samantha 'Sam' Russell
• Mork & Mindy (1978-82) - Mindy McConnell

Voice

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series (TV Series) (1997) - Perdy
• The Bears Who Saved Christmas (TV) (1994) - Mom
• Nick and Noel (1993) (TV) - Leslie
• The Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley with the Fonz Show (TV Series) (1982) - Mindy McConnell
• Swan Lake (1981) - Princess Odette

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