Pamela Payton-Wright
Pamela Payton-Wright was an American actress.
Life and work
One of four children born to Gordon Edgar Payton-Wright and his wife, Eleanor, she attended Tuscaloosa High School,Payton-Wright graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in 1963, and from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she received the Special Medal and the Edmund Gray Prize for High Comedy.
Payton-Wright appeared in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions, notably receiving praise for her portrayal of Laura Wingfield in the 1976 production of The Glass Menagerie.
She began her film career in 1972 as Rhonda on Corky. Following numerous film roles and television appearances, Payton-Wright joined the cast of the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, in 1991, and was the first to play the role of sweet natured, but simple-minded Agatha "Addie" Cramer. She played this part recurringly on the show. She later joined the cast of Another World in 1979 in the role of Hazel Parker, a role she played for one year.