Pam Grier
Birthday: 1949-05-26
Place of Birth: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Biography: 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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Mars Attacks!
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Jackie Brown
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Ghosts of Mars
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
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Escape from L.A.
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The Vindicator
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Coffy
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Foxy Brown
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The Big Bird Cage
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Bones
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash
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In Too Deep
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Class of 1999
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The Package
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Fort Apache, the Bronx
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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On the Edge
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Above the Law
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Back in the Day
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Sheba, Baby
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Women in Cages
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Original Gangstas
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Black Mama, White Mama
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Holy Smoke
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Twilight of Love
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The Arena
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Posse
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Greased Lightning
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Scream Blacula Scream
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The Big Doll House
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Wilder
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Hit Man
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Snow Day
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Just Wright
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The Allnighter
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Tough Enough
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Fakin' Da Funk
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Love the Hard Way
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Ladies of the House
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BaadAsssss Cinema
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Jawbreaker
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Serial Killer
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Feast of All Saints
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Friday Foster
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The Twilight People
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Larry Crowne
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Drum
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First to Die
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Bucktown
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Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
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The Man with the Iron Fists
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Cool Breeze
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No Tomorrow
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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
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Cinnamon
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Stand Alone
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Badge of the Assassin
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As We Know It
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It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
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Hayley Wagner, Star
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Strip Search
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The Invited
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Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man
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Cleveland Abduction
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Fortress 2
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3 A.M.
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A Decade Under the Influence
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Afro Promo
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Corman's World
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Bad Grandmas
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Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking
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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
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Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am
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Machete Maidens Unleashed!
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Jackie Brown: How It Went Down
A making-of documentary for the 1997 film "Jackie Brown."...
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Family Blessings
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Badass Supermama
An homage to and investigation of the blaxploitation cinema of Pam Grier....
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Poms
After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, S...
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Being Rose
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A Christmas Wish
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Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) presents a dynamic checkerboard of moving image foota...
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Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinati...
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Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to t...
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How It Feels to Be Free
Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey...
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A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
Based on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act....
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Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1
A sex in cinema retrospective that uncovers long-forgotten gems buried for years as well as some of ...
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Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Who has ever compared Reservoir Dogs? What are “Open Road” and “New World Disorder”? Why is Harvey K...
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Bad Girls Behind Bars
A camp, affectionate look at women in prison films - the girls you love to hate and hate to love....
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Mystery Cuddlers
When the world's cutest retired couple turns detective, they put the aww in hawwmicide. (A pilot cre...
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All Saints: The Video
All Saints tread the path of jazzy, funky videos, spliced with interviews with the girls themselves ...
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Beautiful Like a Poem
I have a lot of interest and respect for classic cinema. I tried to make a film with at least 20 por...
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