Pam Grier

Known for ActingBorn 1949-05-26 (age 77)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 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).Read more

Movies & web series

All Saints: The Video

People's Choice Awards

This Is Us

Justice League

Smallville

E! True Hollywood Story

Afro Promo

Bob's Burgers

A Decade Under the Influence

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Kings of Cult

Crime Story

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Them

The L Word

Jackie Brown: How It Went Down

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story

Hollywood Squares

Martin

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time

Celebrity Ghost Stories

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

Cleveland Abduction

Jackie Brown

Miami Vice

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Roots: The Next Generations

Corman's World

The Wayans Bros.

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Night Court

The Great North

Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1

MADtv

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

The Wild Thornberrys

Monsters

Cinnamon

Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking

The Cosby Show

Poms

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

A Christmas Wish

Knots Landing

As We Know It

Just Wright