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Pam Grier

Pam Grier

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).

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1998

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1998

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1998

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1998

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1997

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1997

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1997

as Self (archive footage)

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1996

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1996

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1995

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1995

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1995

as Nightingale (voice)

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1995

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1993

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1993

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1993

as Phoebe

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1992

as Linda Holman

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1992

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1991

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1991

as Ms. Wardroe

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1990

as Janice

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1990

as Ms. Connors

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1989

as Ruth Butler

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1988

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1987

as Neema Sharone

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1987

as Sgt. McLeesh

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1986

as Suzanne Terry

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1986

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1986

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1985

as Cathryn Bolan

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1985

as Alexandra 'Alie' Horn

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1984

as Samantha

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1984

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1984

as Valerie Gordon

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1984

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1983

as Dust Witch

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1983

as Myra

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1981

as Charlotte

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1979

as Lieutenant Guthrie

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1979

as Francey

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1977

as Cynthia Wilbur

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1977

as Mary Jones

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as Sandra

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1976

as Regine

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as Friday Foster

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1975

as Aretha

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1975

as Sheba Shayne

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as Foxy Brown

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1974

as Mamawi

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1973

as Lisa Fortier

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1973

as Coffy

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1973

as Lee Daniels

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1972

as Gozelda

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1972

as Blossom

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1972

as Ayesa, the Panther Woman

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1972

as Mona (as Pamela Grier)

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1971

as Alabama

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1971

as Grear

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1970

as Fourth Woman (as Pamela Grier)