Pam Grier
Acting
🎂 1949-05-26
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Pam Grier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(137)
Self
1996
2019
Self
1962
Self - Guest
2009
Self - Guest
2022
Assistant US Attorney Claudia Williams
1999
Self
1997
Amanda Waller
2001
Self - Guest
1993
Benet Collins
1984
Neckbone (voice)
2021
Erica
1995
1998
Grandma
2016
Samantha
1984
Kit Porter
2004
1984
Valerie Gordon
1984
Lieutenant Guthrie
1979
1992
Self
1993
Cynthia Wilbur
1977
Suzanne Terry
1986
Self - Guest
1999
Janice
1990
Nightingale (voice)
1995
Self
2022
Athena
2021
1993
Neema Sharone
1987
Grace Ballard
1991
My'ria'h (voice)
2001
Mother Springbok (voice)
1998
Constance
2019
Self
2009
1996
Jackie Brown
1997
Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop
1998
Louise Williams
1996
Self - Guest Host
1995
Majorie Washburn
2023
Francey
1979
Delores 'Jacks' Jackson
1988
Hershe Las Palamas
1996
Frances
2011
Commander Helena Braddock
2001
Detective Vera Cruz
1999
Ms. Wardroe
1991
Jane
2012
Blossom
1972
Flura Nash
2002
Regine
1976
Alabama
1971
Foxy Brown
1974
Carla
2015
Ruth Butler
1989
Grear
1971
Self (archive footage)
2019
Fourth Woman
1970
Coffy
1973
Pearl
2001
Mamawi
1974
Carol
1999
Self
2020
Janice Wright
2010
Tina
2000
Det. Angela Wilson
1999
Dust Witch
1983
Olive
2019
Lisa Fortier
1973
Susan Mendenhall
2000
Myra
1983
Ms. Connors
1990
Charlotte
1981
Self - Actress
2011
Phoebe
1993
Beverly Jones
2023
Annabelle Lee
1997
Mama
2023
Aretha
1975
Lee Daniels
1973
Friday Foster
1975
Self (archive footage)
2019
Laurie Thompson
1996
Self
2020
Sheba Shayne
1975
Self
2010
Gozelda
1972
George
2001
Lily
2017
Mrs. Cooper
2005
Self
2003
Capt. Maggie Davis
1995
Self (archive footage)
2021
Sgt. McLeesh
1987
Valerie Gordon
1985
Self (archive footage)
2003
James Womack
2011
2010
Mrs. Quincy
1998
Mary Jones
1977
Self
2013
Ayesa, the Panther Woman
1972
Zelda
2010
Mary
2019
Linda Fox
2002
Self (archive footage)
1997
Suzette Lermontant
2001
Diane
1999
Linda Holman
1992
Detective Della Wilder
2000
Alexandra 'Alie' Horn
1985
Self (archive footage)
2013
(archive footage)
2015
Mona
1972
Sam
1999
Coralee
2017
Hunter
1986
Self
2002
Claire Washburn
2003
Cathryn Bolan
1985
Juniper
2024
Janette
1997
Narrator (voice)
1998
Birdie
2008
Self (archive footage)
2016
Self (archival footage)
2021
Detective Barrick
2012
Self
2002
Pam Grier
1998
Self
1996
Sandra
1977
Cara
1986
Self
2001
(archive footage)
1996
Alabama (archive footage)
2005
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
