Pamela Fortunee Salem (22 January 1944 – 21 February 2024) was a British film and television actress.
[2][3] Salem was known for her co-starring role in the early 1980s ITV children's fantasy series Into the Labyrinth as the evil witch Belor,[4] and her late 1980s guest role in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as shady mafia affiliate Joanne Francis.
[5] She was also seen in two adventures of Doctor Who: as Toos in The Robots of Death (1977)[6] and as Professor Rachel Jensen in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988),[7] a role she reprised for Big Finish Productions' officially licensed audio drama spin-off series Counter Measures.
[10] Other television guest appearances included roles in popular British series such as Out of the Unknown, Blake's 7 (as Kara in "Cygnus Alpha", 1978), The Onedin Line, The Professionals (episodes "The Female Factor", 1978, and "Fall Girl", 1978), Howards' Way, Ever Decreasing Circles, Tripods, episodes of All Creatures Great and Small as Zoe Bennett; and later on in American series including Magnum, P.I., Party of Five, ER and The West Wing where she played a British prime minister.
[13] She also appeared in Michael Crichton's The First Great Train Robbery (1979, another film which starred Connery), as well as supporting roles in The Bitch (1979), Night Train to Murder (1983), After Darkness (1985), Thirteen at Dinner (1985), Salome (1986), God's Outlaw (1987), Succubus (1987), Gods and Monsters (1998), Quicksand (2002) and April's Shower (2003).