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Pam Grier

Pam Grier

Birthday: 1949-05-26 | Place of Birth: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation, and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award, and a Saturn Award. Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974); her other major films during this period included The Big Doll House (1971), Women in Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), Black Mama, White Mama (1973), Scream Blacula Scream (1973), The Arena (1974), Sheba, Baby (1975), Bucktown (1975), and Friday Foster (1975). She portrayed the title character in Quentin Tarantino's crime film Jackie Brown (1997), and also appeared in Escape from L.A. (1996), Jawbreaker (1999), Holy Smoke!, (1999), Bones (2001), Just Wright (2010), Larry Crowne (2011), and Poms (2019). On television, Grier portrayed Eleanor Winthrop in the Showtime comedy-drama series Linc's (1998–2000), Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004–2009), and Constance Terry in the ABC sitcom Bless This Mess (2019–2020). She received praise for her work in the animated series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Pam Grier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
How It Feels to Be Free

as    Self (archival footage)

2019
Bless This Mess

as    Constance

2019
A Christmas Wish

as    Mary

2019
Poms

as    Olive

2017
Bad Grandmas

as    Coralee

2015
Cleveland Abduction

as    Carla

2012
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day

as    Detective Barrick

2011
Larry Crowne

as    Frances

2011
Mafia

as    James Womack

2010
Just Wright

as    Janice Wright

2010
The Invited

as    Zelda

2008
Ladies of the House

as    Birdie

2005
Back in the Day

as    Mrs. Cooper

2004
The L Word

as    Kit Porter

2003
First to Die

as    Claire Washburn

2003
Love the Hard Way

as    Linda Fox

2003
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema

as    Self

2001
Ghosts of Mars

as    Commander Helena Braddock

2001
3 A.M.

as    George

2001
Bones

as    Pearl

2001
Feast of All Saints

as    Suzette Lermontant

2000
Fortress 2

as    Susan Mendenhall