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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.
Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s. Her career started in 1971, when Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched her with The Big Doll House (1971) , about a women's penitentiary, and The Big Bird Cage (1972) .
Mar 3, 2024 · From Coffy to Foxy Brown, these are the best Pam Grier films to celebrate the star's trail-blazing legacy.
May 11, 2024 · The great Pam Grier stars in season two of Amazon Prime's "Them: The Scare." She speaks to NPR's Scott Simon about her show, her career, and Black representation in Hollywood.
Mar 1, 2020 · Pam Grier came to Hollywood in 1970, as the film industry was straining to catch up with a counterculture fuelled by sexual freedom, women’s liberation, and Black Power.
Sep 15, 2019 · Her long, respectable tenure as an actress is illuminated in the public memory by two long-ago cinematic beacons — the first being her early-1970s reign as the queen of blaxploitation movies ...
Feb 8, 2023 · Pam Grier takes us through her most memorable roles, from carrying 'genitals in a jar' in 'Foxy Brown' to trying to keep up with the fast-talking Samuel L. Jackson in 'Jackie Brown.'
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 ...
Apr 25, 2024 · In her new horror series, Grier, 74, faces something far more supernatural: “Them: The Scare” (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video), centers on Dawn (Deborah Ayorinde), an LAPD homicide ...
