Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1949-05-26 (Age: 77)
Place of Birth
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Pam Grier
Biography
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. Described by director 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).
Filmography (96)
The Way Things Seem to Be
2026
Mystery Cuddlers
2024
As We Know It
2023
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
2023
Cinnamon
2023
How It Feels to Be Free
2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
2020
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
A Christmas Wish
2019
Poms
2019
Being Rose
2017
Bad Grandmas
2017
