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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) .
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 3, 2024 · From Coffy to Foxy Brown, these are the best Pam Grier films to celebrate the star's trail-blazing legacy.
2 days ago · Pam Grier Opens Up About Acting Career at 75. But even as Pam began appearing in women-in-prison films like 1971’s The Big Doll House, she never expected to become a full-time actress. “Every ...
May 26, 2024 · Pam Grier, action hero icon 08:01 In the 1970s, the height of the blaxploitation film era, Pam Grier was the undisputed queen of the genre, and one of the few female lead action stars ever.
Jul 19, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Pam Grier’s role as the owner of a hardware store in rural Nebraska in the ABC sitcom “Bless This Mess” isn’t a complete departure for the film legend: She lives in rural Colorado and has spent much of her life on ranches to find serenity from Hollywood life.
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 ...
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.
