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Pam Grier

1949-05-26

The Biography

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.

Pam Grier in

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Foxy Brown

6.3 average rating
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Cleveland Abduction

7.2 average rating
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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

5.6 average rating
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Jackie Brown

7.4 average rating
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Mars Attacks!

6.4 average rating
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Jawbreaker

6.3 average rating
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Escape from L.A.

5.9 average rating
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The Package

6.105 average rating
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

6.316 average rating
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Ghosts of Mars

5.113 average rating
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Poms

6.6 average rating
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Fortress 2

5.1 average rating
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Above the Law

6.087 average rating
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Just Wright

6.6 average rating
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Coffy

6.6 average rating
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash

4.4 average rating
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The Man with the Iron Fists

5.52 average rating
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Snow Day

5.128 average rating
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Holy Smoke

5.6 average rating
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Bones

4.8 average rating