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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 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.
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.
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 ...
Jan 20, 2021 · Grier stars in Showtime series “Linc’s,” beginning her transition into television work.
Aug 6, 2023 · Pam Grier stars in Tubi's 'Cinnamon,' while former co-star Antonio Fargas stars in 'Murder City,' and they both discuss the Blaxploitation legacy.
Mar 18, 2017 · Pam Grier was a struggling UCLA film student in the late 1960s when she got an intriguing offer. To pay for school she was working part time as a switchboard operator at a casting...
Dec 10, 2022 · Pam Grier reflects on five decades of strength, spirit, and onscreen empowerment. The pioneering actress looks back at her lengthy career, including the early days as a...
