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Pam Grier

American actress (born 1949)

Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star,^[2] 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 filmJackie Brown (1997), nearly three decades after her first starring role. Grier also appeared in Escape from

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Pam Grier (1949 - )

By 1968, Pam finished high school at East High in Denver. Over the years of her schooling, she had gone from a shy girl with a stutter, to a contestant in the Miss Colorado Universe competition (in which she competed to help pay her way through Metropolitan State College of Denver). David Baumgarten, a talent agent, saw her at the Miss Colorado Universe competition and signed her on to the Agency for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, where she would eventually work in the office while taking acting classes.

Grier was soon discovered by film producer Roger Corman and was flown off to the Philippines to film an action movie. At the time, basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wanted her to marry him and settle down, but she was determined to continue her career as an actress. Throughout the 1970s, she grew into an action star of what became known as “Black Exploitation,” or “Blaxploitation” films. In many ways, the films promoted stereotypes of African American communities and culture, but at the same time these were some of the first films to have Africa

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Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels), a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr., an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s. Her career started in 1971, when Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched her with The Big Doll House (1971), about a women's penitentiary, and The Big Bird Cage (1972). Her strong role put her into a five-year contract with Samuel Z. Arkoff of American-International Pictures, and she became a leading lady in action films such as Jack Hill's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), the comic strip character Friday Foster (1975) and William Girdler's 'Sheba, Baby' (1975). She continued working with American-International, where she portrayed William Marshall's vampire victim in the Blacula (1972) sequel, Scream Blacula Scream (1973).

During the 1980s she became a regular on Miami Vice (1984) and played a supporting role as an evil witch in Ray Bradbury's and Walt Disney Pictures' Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), then returned