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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1949
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Foxy
- Foxy
- A life in three acts
- Foxy
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Film & TV
Acting · Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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…
Known for
- The Way Things Seem to Be — Self2026
- Mystery Cuddlers — Juniper2024
- Pet Sematary: Bloodlines — Majorie Washburn2023
- Cinnamon — Mama2023
- As We Know It — Beverly Jones2023
- Sherri — Self - Guest2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self2022
- How It Feels to Be Free — Self (archival footage)2021
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)2021
- Them — Athena2021
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1949
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 43,080
- Total plays
- 134,926
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Grier was discovered by quickie director Roger Corman, who cast her in his women-in-prison pictures The Big Doll House (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972). She became a staple of the blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s, playing big, bold, buxom, and essentially interchangeable roles in such films as Coffy (1973), Foxy Brown (1974) and Sheba, Baby (1975). With the demise of blaxploitation, Grier's career went into hiatus for some years. She worked her way into progressively larger character
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Key facts
- Born
- Pamela Suzette Grier , ( 1949-05-26 ) May 26, 1949 (age 77) , Winston-Salem, North Carolina , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Metropolitan State College
- Occupations
- Actress singer martial artist
- Years active
- 1970–present
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Winston-Salem
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Notable work
- Jackie Brown
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Sport
- karate
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 60.8
- Image
- An Evening With Pam Grier (6830131549).jpg
- Height
- 173
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- Commons category
- Pam Grier
- date of birth
- 1949-05-26
- birth name
- Pamela Suzette Grier
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- name in native language
- Pam Grier
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
- social media followers
- 549947
- alternative name
- Pamela Grier
- net worth
- 10000000
- pseudonym
- Pam Grier
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. Described by filmmaker 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 also played alongside Richard Pryor as his character Wendell Scott’s wife in the film Greased Lightning (1977). She portrayed the title character in Tarantino's crime film Jackie Brown (1997), nearly three decades after her first starring role. Grier also appeared in Escape from L.A. (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), Jawbreaker (1999), Holy Smoke! (1999), Snow Day (2000), Bones (2001), Just Wright (2010), Larry Crowne (2011) and Poms (2019).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pam Grier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.