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Pam Grier
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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 r…
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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).
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2026
The Way Things Seem to Be
Movie Self
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2025
Breakdown: 1975
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Mystery Cuddlers
Movie Juniper
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2023
As We Know It
Movie Beverly Jones
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2023
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Movie Majorie Washburn
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2023
Cinnamon
Movie Mama
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2021
Them
TV show Athena
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2021
How It Feels to Be Free
Movie Self (archival footage)
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2021
The Great North
TV show Neckbone (voice)
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2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Movie Self
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2020
Beautiful Like a Poem
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
TV show Self
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2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Movie Self
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2019
A Christmas Wish
Movie Mary
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Poms
Movie Olive
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2019
Bless This Mess
TV show Constance
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2017
Being Rose
Movie Lily
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2017
Bad Grandmas
Movie Coralee
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2016
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
This Is Us
TV show Grandma
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2015
Kings of Cult
Movie (archive footage)
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2015
Cleveland Abduction
Movie Carla
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2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking
Movie Self
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2012
The Man with the Iron Fists
Movie Jane
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2012
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
Movie Detective Barrick
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2011
Corman's World
Movie Self - Actress
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2011
Larry Crowne
Movie Frances
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2011
Bob's Burgers
TV show Evelyn (voice)
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2011
Mafia
Movie James Womack
- 2010
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2010
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Movie Self
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2010
Just Wright
Movie Janice Wright
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2010
The Invited
Movie Zelda
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2009
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV show Self
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
