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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.
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- The Big Doll House (1971) Pam Grier had no acting experience when she was hired to play an inmate in a female prison in this Roger Corman production. "Roger Corman said, 'Can you read?'
- Coffy (1973) Though Grier gained notice for her debut in The Big Doll House, it was Coffy that shot her to international fame. Grier stars as the title character, a nurse who embarks on a crusade of vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.
- Foxy Brown (1974) Foxy Brown took the Coffy formula and doubled down, having Grier once again play a female vigilante out for revenge in the urban landscape of vice and crime.
- Friday Foster (1975) As a magazine photographer drawn into a political conspiracy after witnessing an assassination, Grier put a new spin on her vigilante heroines.
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.
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...
