Carolyn Stotesbery-Levens (née Stotesbery) is an American former actress and model possibly best known for portraying the character Pamela Richardson on the short-lived

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drama '' Agent X''. She is credited as Carolyn Stotes for her early film and television appearances.

Early life

Stotesbery was born in

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, a suburb of

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, where she lived part-time as well as spending summers on a cattle ranch in

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. She is the daughter of Anne and Patrick Stotesbery. Her father was a cattle rancher, but moved the family to the

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/ref> Stotesbery is the youngest of 4 children; she has an older brother, Dan, and 2 older sisters, Nicole and Laura. Stotesbery attended grade school in Wayzata before transferring to the

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, where she appeared in high school plays and musicals. She began acting at the age of 5, and at the age of 8 became a part of the Children's Theater of Minneapolis. she studied

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, and

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Conservatory, as well as Theater at

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. Stotesbery is an Improv Olympic West Alumni and a member of UCB. She also spent time at the Second City Training Center and

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Acting career

In 2003, Stotesbery made her first film appearance with a small role in the

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' '' Stuck On You''. Before that she had appeared on

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's comedy series ''

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''. Stotesbery appeared in the pilot for '' Cracking Up'', portrayed a

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survivor in an episode of ''

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'', and appeared in the independent film ''

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'', directed by

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. In the 2010s, Stotesbery appeared in the series '' Glory Daze'' and ''Treasure of the Black Jaguar'', as well as the independent film ''Crosshairs'' directed by Nick Lentz. She was in the main cast of the series ''Olympia'', and reunited with director Nick Lentz to star in the nine minute comedy

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''Cupcakes''. Stotesbery also starred in the dramatic short film ''Cold Feet'' and starred with Gilles Duarte as the couple in the music video for

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's 2011 album track ''Don't You Remember''. In 2015, Stotesbery played the role of Pamela Richardson in three episodes of the short-lived series '' Agent X'', as the fiancé of the title character, played by

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. That same year, Stotesbery made her final film appearance, the

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'' Grey Lady'', directed by fellow ''Agent X'' actor

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, which was completed in 2015 and released in mid-2017. In 2019 she and her screenwriter husband,

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, were hired to write a potential television series, ''Menace of Venice'', for

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's Broken Road Productions, but no such series has gone into production.

Modeling

As a freshman in high school, Stotesbery was chosen 1 out of 400 girls in the

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search to represent Beauty in the Midwest. Stotesbery was selected to go to New York and featured on

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after which, Ford placed her in Chicago where at 15 she lived on her own working as a model. She has shot with top photographers

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, Odette Sugerman,

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, Jeremy Goldberg, Peggy Sirota, Andrew Southam, Bonnie Holland, and Jason Nocito, appearing in such magazines as

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, Glamour, and Allure.

Personal life

Stotesbery married screenwriter

in 2019.Dow, Lainey
"Vineyard Vows: A Stunning Outdoor Wedding Reception at Harvest Inn In Napa Valley"
''California Wedding Day'' The couple lives in Los Angeles.

Filmography

Television

Theatre credits

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stotesbery, Carolyn Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American film actresses American television actresses American stage actresses 21st-century American actresses People from Wayzata, Minnesota People from Big Timber, Montana