Pamelyn Wanda Ferdin is a former American television and film child actress born in Los Angeles, California.
Under contract to Walt Disney Studios from 1967-1970, her work for Disney includes the roles of Laura Bower in The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, for which she won a 1968 Filmdom's Famous Fives award from The Film Daily for Best Performance by a Juvenile Actress in a Motion Picture, and Susie in The Wonderful World of Disney made-for-television film "Smoke". She was considered for the role of Carrie Rawlins in the 1971 Disney movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks. She also appeared with Walt Disney in a 1966 advertisement for RCA color televisions.
She began her career at age three, appearing in commercials before gaining on television shows, such as Blondie, The Odd Couple, The Paul Lynde Show, Star Trek, The Flying Nun, The Brady Bunch, Family Affair, Gunsmoke, The Monkees, The Streets of San Francisco, and Space Academy. She was eventually secured a role in A Boy Named Charlie Brown as Lucy van Pelt and reprised the role twice in It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown and Play It Again, Charlie Brown. Her other films credits include The Reluctant Astronaut, The Mephisto Waltz, The Christine Jorgensen Story, The Beguiled, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, The Toolbox Murders, and Charlotte's Web as the voice of Fern Arable.
Later in life, she became an animal rights activist which led to partaking in various demonstrations.
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