US actress Pamela Anderson (“Baywatch”) is set to receive another award: She will be honored at the 20th Zurich Film Festival. The 57-year-old will receive the “Golden Eye” for her varied career and her outstanding performance in her new film “The Last Showgirl,” as the festival announced on its website and on Instagram. The actress will accept the award in person on October 4, before presenting her new film with director Gia Coppola.
According to festival director Christian Jungen, Anderson would have deserved an Oscar for the role: “We are therefore delighted to be honoring Pamela Anderson, this cult actress who many of us grew up with and who has continually reinvented herself, at the ZFF,” Jungen was quoted as saying. The official name of the festival is “Zurich Film Festival” (ZFF), without the umlaut, after the English spelling of the Swiss city.
In “The Last Showgirl,” Anderson plays the dancer Shelley, who has been performing in one of the last traditional Las Vegas shows for over 30 years. When stage manager Eddie (Dave Bautista) announces the end of the long-running show, Shelley has to say goodbye to her dance family and the glittering world decorated with crystals and reorganize her life. Her best friend Annette (Jamie Lee Curtis) is at her side.
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