Pam Grier
Pam Grier
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.
Known For
Actor
as Juniper
as Majorie Washburn
as Mama
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self (archival footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Athena
as Neckbone (voice)
as Mary
as Self (archive footage)
as Olive
as Self (archive footage)
as Constance
as Lily
as Coralee
as Self (archive footage)
as Grandma
as (archive footage)
as Carla
as Self (archive footage)
as Jane
as Detective Barrick
as Self - Actress
as Frances
as James Womack
as Self
as Janice Wright
as Zelda
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Birdie
as Alabama (archive footage)
as Mrs. Cooper
as Kit Porter
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Linda Fox
as Claire Washburn
as Self
as Flura Nash
as Self
as Suzette Lermontant
as Pearl
as Commander Helena Braddock
as George
as My'ria'h (voice)
as Amanda Waller
as Dr. Lewis
as Detective Della Wilder
as Susan Mendenhall
as Tina
as Diane
as Sam
as Carol
as Det. Angela Wilson
as Detective Vera Cruz
as Assistant US Attorney Claudia Williams
as Self - Guest
as Mrs. Quincy
as Pam Grier
as Narrator (voice)
as Mother Springbok (voice)
as Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop
as Jackie Brown
as Annabelle Lee
as Janette
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Louise Williams
as Hershe Las Palamas
as Laurie Thompson
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Self
as Capt. Maggie Davis
as Self - Guest Host
as Nightingale (voice)
as Erica
as Phoebe
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Linda Holman
as Ms. Wardroe
as Grace Ballard
as Ms. Connors
as Janice
as Ruth Butler
as Delores 'Jacks' Jackson
as Sgt. McLeesh
as Neema Sharone
as Cara
as Hunter
as Suzanne Terry
as Cathryn Bolan
as Alexandra 'Alie' Horn
as Samantha
as Valerie Gordon
as Benet Collins
as Dust Witch
as Myra
as Charlotte
as Lieutenant Guthrie
as Francey
as Mary Jones
as Sandra
as Cynthia Wilbur
as Regine
as Friday Foster
as Aretha
as Sheba Shayne
as Foxy Brown
as Mamawi
as Lisa Fortier
as Coffy
as Lee Daniels
as Gozelda
as Blossom
as Ayesa, the Panther Woman
as Mona (as Pamela Grier)
as Alabama
as Grear
as Fourth Woman (as Pamela Grier)
Crew
as Thanks