Pamela Susan Shoop

Pamela Susan Shoop is an American actress who built a career in character roles on film and television, much of it in series created by Glen A. Larson. Born in Hollywood, she studied acting at the University of Southern California and at Villa Mercede in Florence, Italy, and took her first stage role in a 1968 production of Generation in Phoenix. She made her screen debut in the short film Frog Story, and she is best known for playing Nurse Karen Bailey in the horror film Halloween II (1981). On television she played Alison MacKenzie Tate on the NBC serial Return to Peyton Place from 1973 to 1974 and Miss Dorothy Carlyle on Galactica 1980, and she appeared in the pilots of Knight Rider and Magnum, P.I. and in guest spots on The Fall Guy, Wonder Woman and Murder, She Wrote. She received her last screen credit for a 1996 episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.