Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson is a Canadian-American actor, model and activist who became an international name through Baywatch in the 1990s. She later appeared in films including Barb Wire and Scary Movie 3, and has remained a constant presence in popular culture through television, theatre work, and high-profile public appearances. In the 2020s she has taken on a new wave of projects, alongside a public shift towards a more pared-back image and a focus on home life on Vancouver Island.

Anderson has been vegan for decades and recent interviews and profiles continue to describe her as vegan, including coverage of her vegan cooking, gardening, and her cruelty-free, vegan skincare brand, Sonsie. Her reasons for going vegetarian and later vegan are rooted in animals. She has described childhood experiences that made animal suffering feel immediate, including discovering a hunted deer at home and crying for days, then deciding it was not hard to give up something she saw as cruel.

She has also been one of the most visible celebrities linked with PETA over a long period. Her campaigns have included anti-fur work such as “Give Fur the Cold Shoulder”, vegetarian and vegan billboards in the UK, and later campaigns such as “Vegans Make Better Lovers”. In 2024 she published a plant-based cookbook, I Love You: Recipes from the Heart, centred on vegan food and home cooking.