Pam Grier

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 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Pam Grier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, 1949-05-26

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls	Fourth Woman	62
2	1971	The Big Doll House	Grear	56
3	1971	Women in Cages	Alabama	49
4	1972	Cool Breeze	Mona	51
5	1972	The Twilight People	Ayesa, the Panther Woman	45
6	1972	The Big Bird Cage	Blossom	57
7	1972	Hit Man	Gozelda	49
8	1973	Black Mama, White Mama	Lee Daniels	54
9	1973	Coffy	Coffy	66
10	1973	Scream Blacula Scream	Lisa Fortier	58
11	1974	The Arena	Mamawi	54
12	1974	Foxy Brown	Foxy Brown	62
13	1975	Sheba, Baby	Sheba Shayne	57
14	1975	Bucktown	Aretha	56
15	1975	Friday Foster	Friday Foster	60
16	1976	Drum	Regine	51
17	1977	Twilight of Love	Sandra	38
18	1977	Greased Lightning	Mary Jones	63
19	1981	Fort Apache, the Bronx	Charlotte	65
20	1983	Tough Enough	Myra	51
21	1983	Something Wicked This Way Comes	Dust Witch	64
22	1985	Badge of the Assassin	Alexandra 'Alie' Horn	50
23	1985	Stand Alone	Cathryn Bolan	52
24	1985	Miami Vice: The Prodigal Son	Valerie Gordon	100
25	1986	The Vindicator	Hunter	44
26	1986	On the Edge	Cara	59
27	1987	The Allnighter	Sgt. McLeesh	49
28	1988	Above the Law	Delores 'Jacks' Jackson	61
29	1989	The Package	Ruth Butler	61
30	1990	Class of 1999	Ms. Connors	61
31	1991	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey	Ms. Wardroe	63
32	1992	A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story	Linda Holman	70
33	1993	Posse	Phoebe	53
34	1995	Serial Killer	Capt. Maggie Davis	43
35	1996	Badass Supermama	(archive footage)	10
36	1996	Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man	Self	58
37	1996	Original Gangstas	Laurie Thompson	56
38	1996	Escape from L.A.	Hershe Las Palamas	59
39	1996	Mars Attacks!	Louise Williams	64
40	1997	Afro Promo	Self (archive footage)	0
41	1997	Strip Search	Janette	20
42	1997	Fakin' Da Funk	Annabelle Lee	57
43	1997	Jackie Brown	Jackie Brown	74
44	1998	Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am	Narrator (voice)	0
45	1998	All Saints: The Video	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)	0
46	1998	Pete Rock: Soul Survivor	Pam Grier	50
47	1998	Family Blessings	Mrs. Quincy	60
48	1999	Jawbreaker	Detective Vera Cruz	64
49	1999	In Too Deep	Det. Angela Wilson	63
50	1999	Holy Smoke	Carol	57
51	1999	Hayley Wagner, Star	Sam	30
52	1999	No Tomorrow	Diane	44
53	2000	Snow Day	Tina	51
54	2000	Fortress 2	Susan Mendenhall	51
55	2000	Wilder	Detective Della Wilder	41
56	2001	It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures	Self	68
57	2001	3 A.M.	George	55
58	2001	Ghosts of Mars	Commander Helena Braddock	51
59	2001	Bones	Pearl	47
60	2001	Feast of All Saints	Suzette Lermontant	47
61	2002	Love the Hard Way	Linda Fox	63
62	2002	BaadAsssss Cinema	Self	61
63	2002	The Adventures of Pluto Nash	Flura Nash	44
64	2002	Jackie Brown: How It Went Down	Self	77
65	2003	First to Die	Claire Washburn	37
66	2003	A Decade Under the Influence	Self	80
67	2003	Sex at 24 Frames Per Second	Self (archive footage)	52
68	2005	Back in the Day	Mrs. Cooper	47
69	2005	Bad Girls Behind Bars	Alabama (archive footage)	5
70	2008	Ladies of the House	Birdie	45
71	2010	The Invited	Zelda	32
72	2010	Just Wright	Janice Wright	65
73	2010	Machete Maidens Unleashed!	Self	67
74	2010	Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1		70
75	2011	Mafia	James Womack	41
76	2011	Larry Crowne	Frances	60
77	2011	Corman's World	Self - Actress	71
78	2012	Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day	Detective Barrick	37
79	2012	The Man with the Iron Fists	Jane	55
80	2013	Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking	Self	67
81	2013	Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic	Self (archive footage)	71
82	2015	Cleveland Abduction	Carla	72
83	2015	Kings of Cult	(archive footage)	75
84	2016	Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)	Self (archive footage)	0
85	2017	Bad Grandmas	Coralee	50
86	2017	Being Rose	Lily	65
87	2019	Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror	Self (archive footage)	72
88	2019	Poms	Olive	66
89	2019	QT8: The First Eight	Self (archive footage)	72
90	2019	A Christmas Wish	Mary	65
91	2020	Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness	Self	68
92	2020	Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies	Self	66
93	2021	Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend	Self (archive footage)	50
94	2021	How It Feels to Be Free	Self (archival footage)	0
95	2023	Cinnamon	Mama	66
96	2023	Pet Sematary: Bloodlines	Majorie Washburn	56
97	2023	As We Know It	Beverly Jones	64
98	2024	Mystery Cuddlers	Juniper	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
2	1977	The Love Boat	Cynthia Wilbur	63
3	1979	Roots: The Next Generations	Francey	75
4	1979	Knots Landing	Lieutenant Guthrie	69
5	1984	Night Court	Benet Collins	74
6	1984	Miami Vice		75
7	1984	Miami Vice	Valerie Gordon	75
8	1984	The Cosby Show	Samantha	70
9	1986	Crime Story	Suzanne Terry	79
10	1987	Frank's Place	Neema Sharone	56
11	1990	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Janice	79
12	1991	Pacific Station	Grace Ballard	50
13	1992	Martin		76
14	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
15	1993	The Sinbad Show		60
16	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45
17	1995	The Wayans Bros.	Erica	71
18	1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Nightingale (voice)	60
19	1995	MADtv	Self - Guest Host	69
20	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
21	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
22	1997	The View	Self	45
23	1998	Linc's	Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop	20
24	1998	The Wild Thornberrys	Mother Springbok (voice)	69
25	1998	Hollywood Squares		72
26	1999	The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn	Self - Guest	42
27	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Assistant US Attorney Claudia Williams	79
28	2001	Smallville	Amanda Waller	82
29	2001	Justice League	My'ria'h (voice)	82
30	2004	The L Word	Kit Porter	76
31	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
32	2009	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Self	73
33	2016	This Is Us	Grandma	82
34	2019	Bless This Mess	Constance	62
35	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
36	2021	The Great North	Neckbone (voice)	69
37	2021	Them	Athena	76
38	2022	Sherri	Self - Guest	42
39	2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show	Self	62

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