Pamela Rabe Timeline

AACTA Award Nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama WENTWORTH

Pam & Celia at the AACTAs | Photo by Any Other Day Photography

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Presenting an award

AACTA Award Nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama WENTWORTH

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AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama WENTWORTH

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – DECEMBER 09: Pamela Rabe win the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama during the 5th AACTA Awards Presented by Presto at The Star on December 9, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for AFI)

Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play THE GLASS MENAGERIE
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Logie Award For Most Outstanding Drama Series WENTWORTH

Sydney Theatre Award Nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Mainstream Production THE GLASS MENAGERIE

Helpmann Award Nomination for Best Female Actor in a Play THE WAR OF THE ROSES

Presenting the award for Best Musical

Green Room Award for Female Performer SEASON AT SARSAPARILLA

Helpmann Award Nomination for Best Female Actor in a Play MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN

Green Room Award for Outstanding Female Actor DINNER

Variety Club Heart Awards – Film Award THE WELL

Stockholm Film Festival for Best Actress THE WELL

THE WELL – in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival

Miranda Otto, Pamela Rabe and Samantha Lang attend the movie premiere of the drama film ‘The Well,’ which competed for Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. (Photo : Getty Images/Patrick Riviere)

Green Room Award for Best Female Performer in a Leading Role ROOM OF ONE’S OWN

16th Annual Sydney Critics’ Circle Awards Nomination for
Best Female Performer in a Play or Musical

Green Room Award for Best Female Performer in a Supporting Role  THE WIZARD OF OZ

In 1981 Pamela graduated the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School, where she met her future spouse, Roger Hodgman. In 1982 the couple moved to his native Melbourne, Australia, where they married the following year later.

Pam & Roger | 1997

Pamela Rabe was born as Pamela June Koropatnick in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, on April 30, 1959, to parents Reta Ursula (Rabe) and William Koropatnick.

• She’s the seventh of eight children with two of them being twins. The names of her siblings are Bill, Jacqueline, Jim, Patrick, Ray, Ron and Shelley.
• Being that her surname Koropatnick was an anglicized version of her dad’s original name, she never felt a real connection to it and therefore adopted her mother’s maiden name (Rabe) as her professional name.
• Her Mum is from Hannover, Germany (Rabe means Raven)
• Even though she’s the only person in her family who launched a professional career in the arts, she partly credits the many different characters of her large clan for shaping her as an actress. Pamela distinctly remembers her mother’s side of the family being notorious for laughing until they cried, which perfectly blended with the Eastern European traits of her dad’s family side. Another major influence were her two drama teachers in high school.