Pamela Gene Pam Dawber is an American actress best known for her lead television sitcom roles as Mindy McConnell in Mork amp Mindy and Samantha Russell in My Sister Sam .
Dawber was born in Detroit, Michigan, the older of two daughters of Thelma M. and Eugene E. Dawber, a commercial artist. She went to elementary school in Goodrich and attended North Farmington High School and Oakland Community College, with the intention of transferring to a fouryear college. She deferred her studies at OCC to do some modeling work and eventually dropped out after deciding to go into modeling fulltime.
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