Pamela Reed is an American actress, perhaps best known for her portrayal of Gail Green in “Jericho”, and as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hypoglemic police partner in “Kindergarten Cop”. Find out more juicy details about the veteran actress in the biography below.

Early Life, Family, Educational Background

Pamela Reed was born on 2 April 1949 under the zodiac sign of Aries, in Tacoma, Washington State USA, to Vernie and Norma Reed. She is of White Caucasian ethnicity and holds American nationality. Reed and her family lived in Tacoma until she was 11, then they moved to Maryland due to her father’s job with the Laborers’ Union.

Pamela matriculated from Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Maryland in 1967. In high school, she was on the volleyball team, and also occasionally played soccer and tennis.

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In 1971, she obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington, actually the first person in her family to graduate from college.

Reed then did various jobs for five years, after which she moved to New York to pursue an acting career.

Career

Pamela Reed got her start in the theater, which will always be her first love. She won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play, “Getting Out”, then bagged an Obie Award for ‘sustaining excellence in performance in theater’. She was also cast in “Aunt Dan and Lemon”, “Curse of the Starving Class” and “The Humans”.

Pamela Reed made her television debut in 1976, guest-starring as Susan in an episode of “Spencer’s Pilots”.

She landed her first main role in the following year, in the CBS Drama “The Andros Targets”, playing Sandi Farell, young assistant to Mike Andros (played by James Sutorius), as a New York-based investigative reporter.

In 1980, Reed landed her debut movie role playing Belle Starr in the American Western film,“The Long Riders”, starred alongside James Remar, Savannah Smith, and Felice Orlandi.

She also played Bonnie Dummar in “Melvin and Howard” in the same year.

She kicked off 1981 with the role of Linda Mercer in Peter Yates’ neo-noir thriller, “Eyewitness”, then played Nurse Sprockett in the comedy film “Young Doctors in Love” (1982).

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In early 1983, she had the role of Trudy Cooper in Philip Kaufman’s historical drama “The Right Stuff”, then portrayed Nancy Scot in Herb Gardner’s “The Goodbye People” (1984), opposite Judd Hirsch, Martin Balsam and Gene Saks.

Pamela appeared in many other movies between 1985 and 1990, such as “The Clan of The Cave Bear” (1986), “Rachel River” (1987), and “Chattahoochee” (1989). In 1990, Reed landed the major role of Detective Phoebe O’Hara, John Kimble’s (Arnold Schwarzenegger) rookie police partner. The film was a commercial success, as it grossed $202 million worldwide against a budget of $26 million.

Pamela Reed appeared in several other movies in the 1990s, such as “Passed Away” (1992), “Junior” (1994), “Santa Fe” (1997), and “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (1998).

In 2018, Reed played Dotty opposite Tony Revolori, Grace Gummer, and Casey Wilson in “The Long Dumb Road”, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2018. Her most recent film role was Sister Georgia in the 2020 film “Language Arts”.

Covering her TV roles, Pamela took some minor roles in “All’s Well That Ends Well” (1978), “The Mississippi” (1983), “I Want To Live” (1983), and “Scandal Sheet” (1985).

In 1988, she landed a major role in HBO’s political mockumentary series “Tanner ‘88”, in which she played T.J. Cavanaugh opposite Michael Murphy, Cynthia Nixon and Jim Fyfe. Upon its conclusion, Pamela won an ACE Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic Series, a role she reprised in its sequel series, “Tanner on Tanner” in 2004.

Pamela landed her next main role in NBC’s 1990 sitcom series, “Grand”, playing Janice of the impoverished Pasetti family in rural Pennsylvania. From 1992 to date, Pamela Reed has played the voice role of Ruth Powers in the widely popular “The Simpsons”.

In 2005, Reed portrayed famous screenwriter Esther Shapiro in “Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure”; the TV film covered the behind-the-scenes of the crew involved in making the 1980s hit soap opera “Dynasty”.

From 2006 through 2008, Pamela played Gail Green in the American post-apocalyptic series “Jericho”, centered on the residents of the fictional city in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. Then in 2009, she landed a recurring role in “United States of Tara” as Beverly Craine, a role she held until the show’s cancellation in 2011.

She also had the recurring role as Marlene Griggs-Knope in “Parks and Recreation” between 2009 and 2012.

Pamela Reed has made supporting appearances in “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2011-12), “Criminal Minds” (2014), and “NCIS: Los Angeles” (2015- date).

In the early days of her career, Reed declared that she would never accept a role that ‘encourages sexual violence or perpetrates the idea of women as followers or appendages.’ She held fast to this decision to the present today.

Personal Life, Relationship

Pamela Reed’s career since 1963 has been void of any scandal whatsoever. She met director Sandy Smolan at a red carpet event, dated for a year, and they married in 1988.

Now, they have two grown children together, and on 6 September 2020, Pamela and her husband welcomed their first grandchild – Zooey Rose Smolan – from their son and his girlfriend.

Since 2004, the actress has lived with her husband in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California,.

Appearance, Clothing Style

Pamela Reed stands at the height of 5ft 5ins (1.65m) and weighs about 120lbs (55kgs). She has short blonde hair and grey eyes. Her dressing style involves a lot of classy dresses.

Hobbies, Favorite Things, and Interesting Facts

• Pamela Reed is an outspoken feminist.
• She is involved with many charity organizations.
• She loves exploring food, and her favorite is Italian cuisine.
• Pamela enjoys traveling.
• Her favorite actors are Tom Hanks and Emma Watson, and favorite movies include “The Terminal”, “You’ve Got Mail” and “Harry Potter” franchise.

Net Worth and Salary

In late 2021, Pamela Reed has a net worth estimated at $5 million, accumulated from her five-decade career in theater and Hollywood. Details of property owned by the veteran actress and her family remain undisclosed at this time.

Keean Johnson is an American actor and dancer, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hugo in “Alita: Battle Angel” and Adam Freeman on “Spooksville”. All you need to know about the young actor is detailed in the biography below, so stay with us.

Early Life, Family, Educational Background

Keean Manny Johnson was born on 25 October 1996 under the zodiac sign of Scorpio, in Boulder, Colorado USA, to British father Mark Johnson, and an American mother Brenna, who is partly Hispanic. Therefore Keean is of mixed ethnicity, and holds American nationality.

Keean and his younger brother Cade Johnson were raised in Littleton, by the foothills of the Colorado Rockies.

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When Keean was five years old, his mother (former cheerleader for the basketball team, Denver Nuggets) took him to dance classes.

Starting from fourth grade, he was homeschooled and studied a mixture of academic and creative subjects; Keean’s mother inspired his love for the arts. According to him, ‘my mum’s big philosophy was, creativity is as important as academia’. Through his mother’s encouragement, he developed many artistic skills such as photography, dancing, singing, and acting.

Career

Musical Theater

At age 10, Keean started his career in musical theater, as a singer and dancer, playing Michael,  Billy Elliot’s cross-dressing best friend in the 2008 original Broadway musical, “Billy Elliot”.

With his parents’ support, he performed in various theaters around his hometown, and subsequently in New York City.

During one of Keean’s theater performances, he was sighted by casting director Claire Simon, who instantly showed interest in him, encouraged him to move to Los Angeles to study acting, then audition for film and TV roles. As Keean grew into adolescence and his voice started breaking, he took a break from the musical theater, in lieu of an on-screen career.

Film/TV Roles

Keean Johnson’s on-screen career as an actor started in 2012 when he was just 16 years old. Since then, he’s been credited with 16 roles. His film debut was the role as Sam Armstrong in the short film, “Sam Presents”.

In the same year, he landed a recurring role in Callie Khouri’s soap opera “Nashville”, playing Colt Wheeler alongside Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson and Connie Britton through 2018.

Concurrently, between 2013 and 2014, Keean played the role of Adam Freeman in the live-action series “Spooksville”, which premiered on Hub Network in October, cast opposite Katie Douglas, Nick Purcha and Morgan Taylor Campbell. Later that year, he played the main role as Tony in the family drama miniseries, “The Fosters” (2013), followed in 2014 by guest-starring as Angelo ‘A.J’ Sorrento in episode “Yuletide Fortune Tellers” of ‘Switched At Birth”.

Two years later, Keean was cast as Markie Fitzpatrick,  in the comedy drama “Heritage Falls” opposite David Keith and Nancy Stafford. He also landed a TV role in the same year, playing Ozo in the second season of  American teen drama “Guidance”, produced by AwesomenessTV. Later that year, he played the guest role as Finn in a single episode of “Notorious”.

In 2019, Keean landed his breakthrough role in “Alita: Battle Angel”, an American cyberpunk action based on Japanese artist Yukito Kishiro’s 1990s series “Battle Angel Alita”. He played Hugo, Alita’s love interest opposite Rosa Salazar (Alita), Ed Skrein, and Jackie Earle Haley.

Keean Johnson

He appeared in other 2019 films such as “Low Tide”, “We Summon the Darkness”, “Midway”, and “Emperor”.

Since 2019, Keean Johnson has held the recurring role of Daniel in HBO’s “Euphoria”, and starred as Junior in “Cut Throat City” (2020).

In the 2021 Hulu’s coming-of-age film “The Ultimate Playlist of Noise”, Keean plays the role of Marcus Lund, an audio-obsessed high school senior about to undergo brain surgery that would make him deaf. So he travels across the country in the quest to record all his favorite sounds in a playlist, when he runs into Wendy (Madeline Brewer), an indie rocker on the run.

Keean Johnson was nominated for two categories of the Young Artist Award in 2013, for his role in “Spooksville”, but lost out.

The 25-year old actor has cited Leonardo DiCaprio, Shia LeBeouf and Tom Hardy as his inspirations.

According to famous film review site  Rotten Tomatoes, Keean Johnson’s best performance was ranked 72% in  “Low Tide” (2019), while his worst performance was in “Midway” (2019) which earned him a 42% ranking.

Personal Life, Relationship

Keean Manny Johnson is active on social media; his Instagram page (@keeanjohnson) has over 60,000 followers, on which he shares snippets from upcoming projects, and his daily life. He uses his platform as an artist to speak up on societal oppression and racism, and even lent his voice to the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests of 2020.

In 2018, Keean Johnson started dating 37-year old French actress Sofia Boutella, star of “Climax” Their relationship became public when they attended the “Alita: Battle Angel” premiere together at Regency Village Theatre, Los Angeles. However, it’s uncertain if they’ve broken up or are still together.

The actor currently lives in North Hollywood, Los Angeles CA, with his brother, Cade Johnson.

Appearance, Clothing Style

Keean Johnson is 5ft 7ins (1.70m) tall and weighs around 132lbs (60kgs). He has short brown hair and brown eyes as well. Keean likes to dress in T-shirts, denim jackets and pants for regular outings, but on the red carpet, you’d find him in a neatly-tailored tuxedo.

Hobbies, Favorite Things, and Interesting Facts

• Iceland is Keean’s favorite holiday destination.
• He loves road trips, especially when accompanied by his brother.
• Keean smokes marijuana occasionally.
• He hopes to someday work with Francis Ford Coppola, and Quentin Tarantino.

Net Worth and Salary

In late 2021, the 25-year-old Keean Johnson has a net worth reportedly valued at $3 million, from his decade-long career as an actor and personal projects. Details of property owned by Keean and his family are yet to be revealed.