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Profile of Pam Grier on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Pam Grier  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 26th May 1949
   
Place of Birth: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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Pamela Suzette Grier (born 26 May 1949 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American actress. She grew up in Denver, Colorado, and is cousin to football player and actor Rosey Grier.

Career

Grier was discovered by quickie director Roger Corman, who cast her in his women-in-prison pictures The Big Doll House (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972). She became a staple of the blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s, playing big, bold, buxom, and essentially interchangeable roles in such films as Coffy (1973), 'Sheba, Baby' (1975) and Foxy Brown (1974).

With the demise of blaxploitation, Grier's career went into hiatus for some years. She worked her way into progressively larger character roles in the 1980s, including notably the stoned prostitute in Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), a witch in Something Wicked this Way Comes (1983), and Steven Seagal's detective partner in Above the Law (1988). She became a regular on the hit television detective series Miami Vice in 1985.

Ms. Grier highlighted a successful television series during the '90s on the network B.E.T.

Grier re-achieved leading lady status in 1997 as the titular stewardess in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, which many consider her best work so far. Grier is currently appearing in the television series The L Word.

Selected Filmography

  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
  • Hit Man (1972)
  • Coffy (1973)
  • The Arena (1974)
  • Foxy Brown (movie) (1974)
  • Bucktown (1975)
  • 'Sheba, Baby' (1975)
  • Drum (1976)
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
  • Tough Enough (1983)
  • The Allnighter (1987)
  • Above the Law (1988)
  • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
  • Posse (1993)
  • Original Gangstas (1996)
  • Escape from L.A. (1996)
  • Mars Attacks! (1996)
  • Jackie Brown (1997)
  • Holy Smoke (1999)
  • Snow Day (2000)
  • Wilder (2000)
  • Ghosts of Mars (2001)
  • Bones (2001)
  • The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
  • The L Word (2004) (TV series)

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