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Victoria Principal (born January 3, 1945 in
Fukuoka, Fukuoka|Fukuoka, Japan) is an American
actor|actress, best known for her role as Pamela
Barnes Ewing on the CBS nighttime drama Dallas (TV
series)|Dallas from 1978 to 1987. She is also
well-known for her line of cosmetic products.

Victoria was the elder of two daughters born to
Victor Principale and Ree Veal. Her father, a
sergeant in the United States Air Force|U.S. Air
Force, moved constantly, and she grew up in
London, Florida, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and
Georgia (U.S. State)|Georgia, among other places,
attending 17 different schools. 

She acted in a commercial when five and began
modeling in high school. She enrolled at
Miami-Dade Community College, and wanted to study
chiropractic medicine, but serious injures in a
car crash at age 18 made her refocus her energy on
acting. She moved to New York City|New York, and
worked as a model and actress. She studied at RADA
in London, and moved to Los Angeles,
California|Los Angeles in 1971. 

Her first film was as a Mexican mistress in Paul
Newman's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, and
went on to a co-starring role in the 1974 disaster
movie epic, Earthquake (movie)|Earthquake. Two
years later, disappointed with her career, she
quit acting and for the next several years worked
as an agent. Principal planned on going to law
school, and later become a studio executive, but
Aaron Spelling offered her one year's tuition to
accept a role in the pilot of Fantasy Island. She
agreed - and then landed the role of Pamela Ewing
on Dallas. 

She left the show after nine years, and began her
own production company, Victoria Principal
Productions. She still works as an actress and
producer, and has also created a line of skin care
products and written three books about beauty and
skin-care. In late 1999, she appeared on the
series Family Guy, in which she played her Pam
Ewing role and parodied the infamous "shower
scene" in which she dreamed up her Dallas
husband's death (on Family Guy, she dreamed up an
episode in which the family underwent a nuclear
holocaust on January 1, 2000). 

She currently lives in Beverly Hills, California
with her plastic surgeon husband, Dr. Harry
Glassman.

In South Park, Recurring South Park
characters#Principal Victoria|Principal Victoria
is a parody of her name.

She claims she lies about her height, not about
her age, but she shaved 5 years off her age for
many years. She turned 60 years old in 2005.

==External link==
*http://www.victoriaprincipal.com/ Official Web
Site
*http://groups.yahoo.com/group/victoriaprincipalli
nks/ Victoria Principal Links
*imdb name|name=Victoria Principal|id=0000595