Pam Grier


Pam Grier Brief Biography

Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She became known in the early 1970s for starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films like The Big Bird Cage (1972), Coffy (1973), Foxy Brown (1974) and Sheba Baby (1975). She starred in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG Award as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in Jackie Brown. Grier is also known for her work on television, for 6 seasons she portrayed Kate 'Kit' Porter on the television series The L Word. She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in the 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.

Pam Grier News

• The Almanac for May 26, the 146th day of 2019
• The Almanac for May 26, the 146th day of 2018
• Amazon adds Brown Sugar Blaxploitation movie streaming service to video platform
• The Almanac for May 26, the 146th day of 2017



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