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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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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Strong Candidate for the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Gene
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· 1994 · cited 4,793x
- A revolution in optical manipulation
· 2003 · cited 4,459x
- Methods of Digital Video Microscopy for Colloidal Studies
· 1996 · cited 3,423x
- The Richmond Agitation–Sedation Scale: Validity and Reliability in Adult Intensive Care Unit Patients
· 2002 · cited 3,046x
- Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma
· 2015 · cited 2,667x
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Key dates
- Born
- 26 May 1949
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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
- Foxy Brown
- Hair colour
- black hair
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1949 births20th-century African-American actresses20th-century American actresses21st-century African-American actresses21st-century American actressesActresses from DenverActresses from Los AngelesActresses from Winston-Salem, North CarolinaActresses from WyomingAmerican actresses of Chinese descentAmerican actresses of Filipino descent