Pamela Payton-Wright

Pamela Payton-Wright (born November 1, 1941) is an American actress.

Biography

Payton-Wright was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Eleanor Ruth (née McKinley) and Gordon Edgar Payton-Wright.^[1] She graduated from the Birmingham-Southern College in 1963. She began her television career in 1972 as Rhonda on Corky. She later joined the cast of Another World in 1979 in the role of Hazel Parker, a role she played for one year.

Payton-Wright is an accomplished actress having appeared in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Following numerous film roles and television appearances, Payton-Wright joined the cast of the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, in 1991, and was the first to play the role of sweet natured, but simple-minded Agatha "Addie" Cramer. She currently plays this part recurringly on the show.

Broadway

• The Show-Off
• Exit the King
• The Cherry Orchard
• Jimmy Shine
• The Crucible
• All Over Town
• The Glass Menagerie
• Romeo & Juliet
• M Butterfly
• The Night of the Iguana
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Something Unspoken
• Mourning Becomes Electra (Drama Desk Award)

Off-Broadway

• The Effect of Gamma Rays... (Obie, Clarence Derwent Award, Variety Critics' Poll Citation)
• Jesse and the Bandit Queen (Obie Award)
• The Seagull
• Hamlet
• The Replacement
• Mrs. Warren's Profession
• Richard III
• Til the Rapture Comes
• The Day Emily Married (2005)

Film:

• In Dreams
• The Freshman
• My Little Girl
• Ironweed
• Starlight
• Going in Style
• Resurrection
• At the Dark End of the Street
• Corky

Television:

• The Prodigal (PBS)
• Brother to Dragons (PBS)
• Look Homeward Angel (Playhouse 90)
• The Adams Chronicles (PBS, Emmy Nomination)
• Law & Order (guest)
• Homicide (recurring)
• Spencer for Hire (guest)
• One Life to Live (recurring)
• Gunsmoke,as Emma DonavanEpisode year 17-21 Yankton

References

External links

• Pamela Payton-Wright at the Internet Movie Database
• Pamela Payton-Wright at the Internet Broadway Database
• Pamela Payton-Wright interview: Performance Working in the Theatre CUNY-TV video by the American Theatre Wing, September 1989