Who would have thought this would be the beginning of my career at 57 years old?’ Pamela Anderson, of Baywatch fame, is entering a new era.

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Onetime “Baywatch” babe, reality star and ’90s sex symbol Pamela Anderson (also: activist, best-selling author and mother) has spent much of her career shoved into boxes beyond her control. But the Pam-aissance she’s undergone in recent years,

“I’m beautiful,” she says before a friend walks her offstage. “I’m 57, and I’m beautiful, you son of a bitch!”

Anderson plays an aging Vegas showgirl in the new movie from Gia Coppola. For so many reasons, it's a role only she could meaningfully deliver.

The beauty icon is flexing her acting muscles in her new movie, which recently netted her a Golden Globes nomination.

Below is a look at how the popular Canadian broke onto the big screen, at some of her most famous movies and how they were received.

Nothing lasts forever, but in Las Vegas not much sticks around longer than a minute or two. Not your money, not the old casino hotels on the Strip, and not the topless revues that, for decades, defined Sin City in a rhinestone nutshell.

"It happened and now I'm here," Anderson said. "I'm being seen and recognized for my work and not these tawdry moments."