Pamela Kosh

Pamela Kosh (also known as Pamela K. Gilmore; October 1, 1928 – May 4, 2022) was a British-American character actress and former stage actress, pioneering female stage director, and magazine model. She had a successful career in television for over forty years (between the 1980s and 2010s).

She was known for a wide variety of roles in television and is best known for playing Lavinia Peach in Days of Our Lives, Mrs. Carmichael and Jessel in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Flora on The King of Queens, Martha on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and Miss Simpson in both Saved by the Bell and Saved by the Bell: The New Class.

Early life Pamela Kosh was born Pansy Amy Kosh on October 1, 1928 in Crayford in Kent to Alfred and Rose Kosh, the youngest of six children. She worked in theatrical companies in Boston, Miami, and Los Angeles. and was lauded for her "keen respect for the play's delicate virtues".

Between 1973 and 1981, she and her husband both established and managed the now defunct Golden Mall Playhouse, which during its tenure was located in Burbank, California. She played the role of Dolly Dibble/Lady Macbeth in their 1977 production of John Patrick's Macbeth Did It and the role of Edith Lambert in their 1979 production of Never Too Late. In 1979, she starred with Hilary Miller in James Prideaux's Lemonade at the Theatre Exchange in North Hollywood. The Golden Mall Playhouse ended in 1981 after the city used eminent domain to condemn and demolish it to make way for a Holiday Inn.

Later television career From 1985 to 2017, she became a character actress on television and in films, often portraying socialites, matriarchs, school-teachers, and neighbors, and everything from charladies to two queens of England, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria.

She played landlady Mrs. Carmichael and later Data's housekeeper Jessel in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Tor.com said she was "delightfully harumphy" in the latter role.

On Saved by the Bell she was known as the near-deaf "batty and British" Mrs. Simpson and also appeared in the pilot for Saved by the Bell: The New Class.

Some of her other appearances include guest-starring and recurring roles in shows such as Murder, She Wrote, Hotel, ER, Charmed, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, Mama's Family, My Name is Earl, Monk, Dynasty, Jake and the Fatman, Murphy Brown, Charmed, L.A. Law, The Bernie Mac Show, Pushing Daisies, The Division, and Matlock. She also appeared in Desperate Housewives.

Other roles Her film roles included Star! (1968), Dark Holiday (1989), Sweet Temptation (1996), and Double Take (2001) She actually died at age 93 on May 4, 2022.