Paula Shaw is an American

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. A life member of the

Actors Studio The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights located on West 44th Street in Hell's Kitchen in New York City. The studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method actin ...

, Shaw has portrayed characters in numerous films and on television (including a role as prostitute on ''

Barney Miller ''Barney Miller'' is an American sitcom television series set in a New York City Police Department police station on East 6th Street in Greenwich Village (Lower Manhattan). The series was broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from Janu ...

'', season three, "Quarantine", and season four, "Bugs"). She is perhaps most well known for portraying the character of Mrs.

Pamela Voorhees Pamela Voorhees () is a fictional character and the overarching antagonist of the ''Friday the 13th'' series of horror films. She was created by Victor Miller, and first appeared in Sean S. Cunningham's '' Friday the 13th'' (1980), played by ...

in the ''

Freddy vs. Jason ''Freddy vs. Jason'' is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Ronny Yu and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. It is a crossover between ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise and ''Friday the 13th'' franchise, being the eighth in ...

'' movie.

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