Pam Grier
Acting
Born 1949-05-26
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. Described by director 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).
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Filmography
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Roots: The Next Generations
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Smallville
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Bob's Burgers
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The Love Boat
The View
Miami Vice
Hollywood Squares
Sherri
Knots Landing
This Is Us
Night Court
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Cosby Show
The Wild Thornberrys
Intimate Portrait
Martin
The L Word
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Great North
Celebrity Ghost Stories
People's Choice Awards
Mars Attacks!
Justice League
Monsters
Them
The Arena
Jackie Brown
Crime Story
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Wayans Bros.
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Above the Law
Larry Crowne
Escape from L.A.
Bless This Mess
Ghosts of Mars
Jawbreaker
The Man with the Iron Fists
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Foxy Brown
Strange Frequency
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Just Wright
The Sinbad Show
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Cleveland Abduction
Coffy
Frank's Place
In Too Deep
Class of 1999
Posse
Holy Smoke
The Package
The Big Doll House
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