Margaret Michaels
| Margaret Michaels | |
|---|---|
| Born | Margaret Michaels |
| Occupation | Television actress |
Margaret Michaels is an American actress best known for appearing as the characters of Pamela Barnes Ewing #2 and/or Jeanne O'Brien on the soap opera Dallas and as Santana Andrade #2 on the soap opera Santa Barbara.
Career
From Portsmouth, Virginia. Winner of various hometown beauty contests started her acting career with small parts on various TV shows including The Jeffersons. In the late 1980s, Warner Bros. was looking for a Victoria Principal lookalike to step into the role of Pamela Ewing on Dallas, after Victoria Principal had left the series to pursue other interests. Late in 1988, Michaels appeared briefly in the first episode of the 12th season as Pamela Ewing with her change in appearance being attributed to plastic surgery after her near-fatal car accident.
In the penultimate season 13, the producers of the series were looking for a Pam look-alike in order to give Bobby one last fling before his marriage to April Stevens, played by Sheree J. Wilson, and to give Bobby Ewing a chance to sort of say good bye to his former wife, as he never had the chance when Pamela had left abruptly back in 1987. Michaels was asked to return to the show, this time not as Pamela Ewing, but as a Pam Ewing lookalike named Jeanne O'Brien. After her 4-episode stint on the show, Michaels' character Jeanne was written out.