Overview
- In a Vogue Scandinavia interview published December 2, Anderson said she prefers the name Pamela Hyytiäinen and claimed, "they won’t let me."
- She did not specify who or what is preventing the change, and outlets report no legal filing or official decision.
- Hyytiäinen was her family’s original surname in Finland before her great-grandfather Juho adopted Anderson after immigrating to North America.
- Anderson called her grandfather Herman Hyytiäinen a logger and poet who taught her Finnish and was "the closest person" to her; she visited Finland in 2007 and hopes to return with her sons.
- Coverage places the name discussion within her recent reinvention that includes the 2023 Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story, a praised 2024 role in The Last Showgirl, and a turn in The Naked Gun.