Melanie Kinnaman (born December 18, 1953)[1] is an American film and stage actress.
Kinnaman has made guest appearances on television in programs such as Hill Street Blues, The People Next Door and Cheers.
[4] She relocated to Los Angeles in 1982, and eight months later appeared in a thirteen-week run of General Hospital.
[3] In 1984, Kinnaman was cast as a drug-addicted prostitute in Cannon Films's Thunder Alley (1985).
[5] She was originally going to reprise her role as Pam (who evidently survived in the previous film) in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, but Paramount Pictures changed the concept of the sequel and the character was written out.