Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She became famous in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films such as 1974's Foxy Brown. Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown. She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in the iconic film Jackie Brown. She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in an Animated Program Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child. Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second Greatest Female Action Heroine in film history. Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinema's first female action star. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pam Grier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- May 26, 1949 In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 92
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970-07-17
- Latest Project:
- Movie Pet Sematary: Bloodlines 2023-09-23
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Cinnamon | Mama | 2023-06-11 |
| Movie | Pet Sematary: Bloodlines | Majorie Washburn | 2023-09-23 |
| Movie | Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Self (archive footage) | 2021-01-02 |
| Series | Them | Athena | 2021-04-09 |
| Movie | Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness | Self | 2020-04-21 |
| Movie | Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies | Self | 2020-08-18 |
| Series | Bless This Mess | Constance | 2019-04-16 |
| Movie | Poms | Olive | 2019-05-09 |
| Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Self (archive footage) | 2019-02-07 |
| Movie | QT8: The First Eight | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-21 |
| Movie | A Christmas Wish | Mary | 2019-11-28 |
| Movie | Bad Grandmas | Coralee | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | Being Rose | Lily | 2017-11-09 |
| Movie | Durant's Never Closes | B.J. | 2016-01-22 |
| Movie | Cleveland Abduction | Carla | 2015-05-02 |
| Movie | Kings of Cult | (archive footage) | 2015-09-02 |
| Movie | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic | Self (archive footage) | 2013-04-23 |
| Movie | Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day | Detective Barrick | 2012-04-13 |
| Movie | The Man with the Iron Fists | Jane | 2012-11-02 |
| Movie | Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking | Self | 2012-11-20 |
| Movie | Larry Crowne | Frances | 2011-06-30 |
| Movie | Mafia | James Womack | 2011-01-01 |
| Movie | Corman's World | Self - Actress | 2011-12-16 |
| Movie | The Invited | Zelda | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Just Wright | Janice Wright | 2010-05-14 |
| Movie | Machete Maidens Unleashed! | Self | 2010-10-15 |
| Movie | Ladies of the House | Birdie | 2008-10-18 |
| Movie | Back in the Day | Mrs. Cooper | 2005-05-24 |
| Series | The L Word | Kit Porter | 2004-01-18 |
| Movie | First to Die | Claire Washburn | 2003-02-23 |
| Movie | Love the Hard Way | Linda Fox | 2003-03-27 |
| Movie | A Decade Under the Influence | Self | 2003-04-25 |
| Movie | Sex at 24 Frames Per Second | Self (archive footage) | 2003-09-23 |
| Movie | BaadAsssss Cinema | Self | 2002-08-14 |
| Movie | Jackie Brown: How It Went Down | Self | 2002-08-20 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Pluto Nash | Flura Nash | 2002-08-16 |
| Movie | 3 A.M. | George | 2001-07-01 |
| Movie | Ghosts of Mars | Commander Helena Braddock | 2001-08-24 |
| Movie | It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures | Self | 2001-05-01 |
| Movie | Bones | Pearl | 2001-10-24 |
| Movie | Feast of All Saints | Suzette Lermontant | 2001-11-11 |
| Movie | Snow Day | Tina | 2000-02-11 |
| Movie | Fortress 2 | Susan Mendenhall | 2000-03-02 |
| Movie | Wilder | Detective Della Wilder | 2000-11-01 |
| Movie | In Too Deep | Det. Angela Wilson | 1999-08-25 |
| Movie | Jawbreaker | Detective Vera Cruz | 1999-01-30 |
| Movie | Hayley Wagner, Star | Sam | 1999-09-19 |
| Movie | Holy Smoke | Carol | 1999-09-04 |
| Movie | No Tomorrow | Diane | 1999-10-19 |
| Series | Linc's | Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop | 1998-08-01 |
| Movie | Pete Rock: Soul Survivor | Pam Grier | 1998-11-10 |
| Movie | Afro Promo | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-31 |
| Movie | Strip Search | Janette | 1997-04-02 |
| Movie | Jackie Brown | Jackie Brown | 1997-12-25 |
| Movie | Fakin' Da Funk | Annabelle Lee | 1997-07-20 |
| Movie | Escape from L.A. | Hershe Las Palamas | 1996-08-09 |
| Movie | Original Gangstas | Laurie Thompson | 1996-05-10 |
| Movie | Mars Attacks! | Louise Williams | 1996-12-13 |
| Movie | Serial Killer | Capt. Maggie Davis | 1995-10-05 |
| Movie | Posse | Phoebe | 1993-05-14 |
| Movie | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Ms. Wardroe | 1991-07-19 |
| Movie | Class of 1999 | Ms. Connors | 1990-04-01 |
| Movie | The Package | Ruth Butler | 1989-01-25 |
| Movie | Above the Law | Delores 'Jacks' Jackson | 1988-04-08 |
| Movie | The Allnighter | Sgt. McLeesh | 1987-05-01 |
| Movie | The Vindicator | Hunter | 1986-02-14 |
| Series | Crime Story | 1986-09-19 | |
| Movie | On the Edge | Cara | 1986-05-02 |
| Movie | Badge of the Assassin | Alexandra 'Alie' Horn | 1985-01-04 |
| Movie | Stand Alone | Cathryn Bolan | 1985-09-01 |
| Movie | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Dust Witch | 1983-04-29 |
| Movie | Tough Enough | Myra | 1983-05-20 |
| Movie | Fort Apache, the Bronx | Charlotte | 1981-02-06 |
| Series | Roots: The Next Generations | Francey | 1979-02-18 |
| Movie | Twilight of Love | Sandra | 1977-05-19 |
| Movie | Greased Lightning | Mary Jones | 1977-07-01 |
| Movie | Drum | Regine | 1976-07-30 |
| Movie | Sheba, Baby | Sheba Shayne | 1975-03-26 |
| Movie | Bucktown | Aretha | 1975-07-02 |
| Movie | Friday Foster | Friday Foster | 1975-12-25 |
| Movie | The Arena | Mamawi | 1974-03-13 |
| Movie | Foxy Brown | Foxy Brown | 1974-04-05 |
| Movie | Scream Blacula Scream | Lisa Fortier | 1973-06-27 |
| Movie | Black Mama, White Mama | Lee Daniels | 1973-01-19 |
| Movie | Coffy | Coffy | 1973-06-13 |
| Movie | Cool Breeze | Mona (as Pamela Grier) | 1972-03-29 |
| Movie | Twilight People | Ayesa, the Panther Woman | 1972-06-01 |
| Movie | The Big Bird Cage | Blossom | 1972-07-01 |
| Movie | Hit Man | Gozelda | 1972-12-20 |
| Movie | The Big Doll House | Grear | 1971-04-30 |
| Movie | Women in Cages | Alabama | 1971-10-19 |
| Movie | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Fourth Woman (as Pamela Grier) | 1970-07-17 |