Pamela Anderson is set to be honored with the Zurich Film Festival Golden Eye Award for her versatile career and her awards season tipped performance in The Last Showgirl.
The Canadian-American actress will receive the award in person ahead of a gala screening of her new film on October 4, which will also be attended by director Gia Coppola.
Anderson plays 50-year-old showgirl Shelley who is forced to reset her life when the long-running Las Vegas show that kept her afloat for 30 years comes to a close.
Facing an uncertain future, she tries to mend her long-neglected relationship with her daughter, with the help of colleague Annette (Jamie Lee Curtis).
“Pamela poured her heart and soul into the character of Shelley and captivated us right from the start,” said Zurich Film Festival artistic director Christian Jungen.
“She completely immersed herself in her character, turned Shelley’s inner life inside out with her facial expressions and made sure that we sympathised with her. A terrific performance, perhaps the best of her career, which deserves an Oscar nomination. We are therefore delighted to honour Pamela Anderson, this cult actress with whom many of us have grown up and who has reinvented herself time and again, at the ZFF.”
The Zurich Film Festival runs from October 3 to 13.
