About Betsy Palmer
Betsy Palmer was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing Pamela Voorhees, the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980). Palmer was the last surviving member of the I've Got a Secret first version's cast. In 1953, she created the role of Virginia in the original teleplay version of Paddy Chayefsky's Marty. Palmer got her first television acting job in 1951 when she joined the cast of the 15-minute weekday television soap opera Miss Susan, which was produced in Philadelphia, and all actors traveled each day from New York City by train.
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