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Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress and singer. Described by many as cinema's first female action star, [2] 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.
Pam Grier. Actress: Jackie Brown. Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels), a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr., an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s.
- January 1, 1
- 1.73 m
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Learn about the life and career of Pam Grier, a major African-American star of blaxploitation films and other genres. Find out her birth date, height, family, trivia, quotes and more on IMDb.
- May 26, 1949
Mar 3, 2024 · From Coffy to Foxy Brown, these are the best Pam Grier films to celebrate the star's trail-blazing legacy.
- Daniela Gama
Feb 26, 2024 · Pam Grier, the queen of blaxploitation movies, talks to Q's Tom Power about her legacy, her roles and the term blaxploitation. She says it was a conspiracy to keep her films out of theatres and that she based her characters on her mom.
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- Vivian Rashotte
Sep 15, 2019 · An audience that she helped prime for the second beacon: Her seeming resurrection as a pop-culture figure by Quentin Tarantino, who featured her in his 1997 film, “Jackie Brown.” (Her...
Feb 8, 2023 · The actress reflects on her career in Blaxploitation films and beyond, and how she paved the way for Black representation on screen. She shares stories about her stunts, her Afro, her aunt, and working with Paul Newman and Quentin Tarantino.
