The material said that if the actress’s paternal great-grandfather, who emigrated from Finland to Canada in 1908, had not taken an American surname, her name would have been Pamela Hytiainen.
Now the actress is thinking about returning her grandfather's name. However, she is not allowed to do this, Anderson added, without elaborating on who or why.
The desire to return the family name was also influenced by the actress’s relationship with her Finnish grandfather, who was a poet and lumberjack, and Anderson herself shared in an interview that he was the closest person in her life.
She also said that she studied Finnish as a child to please her grandfather, but he died when she was eleven years old.
Context
Anderson was born on July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, Canada. In 1989, her photo was featured on the cover of Playboy magazine.
Since 1992, she began acting in the TV series “Baywatch”.
