Pamela Anderson's Journey From Beer Poster Model To '90s TV Icon

After leaving "Baywatch," Anderson achieved such pop-culture saturation that she was able to go meta, playing herself in various roles. This proved to be a great, charismatic approach to her own career. Plainly put, Anderson is hilarious and deserves a lot of recognition for her comedic capabilities.

Her first time playing herself came in 1999, when she guest-starred in the "A Fishful of Dollars" episode of Matt Groening's "Futurama." She would return again to voice an actual character, Dixie, in an episode titled "Fry and the Slurm Factory" in the same season. In 2002, she played herself in the live-action "Scooby-Doo" film and, a year later, she played the character Becca, an aloof parody of herself, in "Scary Movie 3." She played herself on the sketch comedy show "Mad TV" in 2005 and would have an uncredited cameo as herself on Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat!"