Pam Grier

Pam Grier

Birthday: 1949-05-26

Place of birth: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Also known as: Pam Greer , Pamela Grier, Pamela Suzette Grier, 帕姆·格里爾, پم گری‌یر

imdb_id: nm0000427

Biography:

Pamela Suzette Grier 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).

Played in movies:

A Decade Under the Influence

Score: 8.0

Jackie Brown: How It Went Down

Score: 7.7

Kings of Cult

Score: 7.5

Jackie Brown

Score: 7.4

Cleveland Abduction

Score: 7.2

QT8: The First Eight

Score: 7.2

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

Score: 7.2

Corman's World

Score: 7.1

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Score: 7.0

Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1

Score: 7.0

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story

Score: 7.0

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

Score: 6.8

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

Score: 6.8

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Score: 6.7

Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking

Score: 6.7

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

Score: 6.6

Poms

Score: 6.6

Cinnamon

Score: 6.6

Coffy

Score: 6.6

Just Wright

Score: 6.5

A Christmas Wish

Score: 6.5

Being Rose

Score: 6.5

Fort Apache, the Bronx

Score: 6.5

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Score: 6.4

Mars Attacks!

Score: 6.4

As We Know It

Score: 6.4

Jawbreaker

Score: 6.4

In Too Deep

Score: 6.4

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Score: 6.3

Love the Hard Way

Score: 6.3

Greased Lightning

Score: 6.3

Foxy Brown

Score: 6.2

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Score: 6.1

The Package

Score: 6.1

BaadAsssss Cinema

Score: 6.1

Above the Law

Score: 6.1

Class of 1999

Score: 6.1

Family Blessings

Score: 6.0

Friday Foster

Score: 6.0

Larry Crowne

Score: 6.0

On the Edge

Score: 5.9

Escape from L.A.

Score: 5.9

Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man

Score: 5.8

Scream Blacula Scream

Score: 5.8

Sheba, Baby

Score: 5.8

Fakin' Da Funk

Score: 5.7

Holy Smoke

Score: 5.7

The Big Bird Cage

Score: 5.6

Bucktown

Score: 5.6

The Big Doll House

Score: 5.6

Original Gangstas

Score: 5.6

3 A.M.

Score: 5.6

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines

Score: 5.6

The Man with the Iron Fists

Score: 5.5

The Arena

Score: 5.4

Black Mama, White Mama

Score: 5.4

Posse

Score: 5.3

Stand Alone

Score: 5.2

Ghosts of Mars

Score: 5.1

Snow Day

Score: 5.1

Fortress 2

Score: 5.1

Drum

Score: 5.1

Tough Enough

Score: 5.1

Cool Breeze

Score: 5.1

Women in Cages

Score: 5.0

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

Score: 5.0

Pete Rock: Soul Survivor

Score: 5.0

Bad Grandmas

Score: 5.0

Badge of the Assassin

Score: 5.0

Hit Man

Score: 4.9

The Allnighter

Score: 4.9

Bones

Score: 4.7

Back in the Day

Score: 4.7

Feast of All Saints

Score: 4.7

The Twilight People

Score: 4.5

Ladies of the House

Score: 4.5

The Vindicator

Score: 4.4

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

Score: 4.4

No Tomorrow

Score: 4.4

Serial Killer

Score: 4.3

Wilder

Score: 4.1

Mafia

Score: 4.1

Twilight of Love

Score: 3.8

First to Die

Score: 3.7

Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day

Score: 3.7

The Invited

Score: 3.2

Hayley Wagner, Star

Score: 3.0

Strip Search

Score: 2.0

Badass Supermama

Score: 1.0

Bad Girls Behind Bars

Score: 0.5

Beautiful Like a Poem

Score: 0.0

All Saints: The Video

Score: 0.0

Mystery Cuddlers

Score: 0.0

How It Feels to Be Free

Score: 0.0

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)

Score: 0.0

Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am

Score: 0.0

Afro Promo

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

This Is Us

Score: 8.2

Smallville

Score: 8.2

Justice League

Score: 8.2

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

Crime Story

Score: 8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Score: 7.9

Martin

Score: 7.6

The L Word

Score: 7.6

Them

Score: 7.6

Roots: The Next Generations

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Miami Vice

Score: 7.5

Miami Vice

Score: 7.5

Night Court

Score: 7.3

Hollywood Squares

Score: 7.3

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Score: 7.3

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Score: 7.2

The Wayans Bros.

Score: 7.2

The Cosby Show

Score: 7.0

The Great North

Score: 7.0

MADtv

Score: 7.0

The Wild Thornberrys

Score: 6.9

Knots Landing

Score: 6.7

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Score: 6.5

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

The Love Boat

Score: 6.3

Bless This Mess

Score: 6.1

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Score: 6.0

The Sinbad Show

Score: 6.0

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Score: 6.0

Frank's Place

Score: 5.6

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Pacific Station

Score: 5.0

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

Score: 4.6

Intimate Portrait

Score: 4.5

The View

Score: 4.3

Sherri

Score: 3.8

Linc's

Score: 2.0