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Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress and singer. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star [2] (although, many believe Cheng Pei-pei actually holds that distinction [3] [4]), 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.
Pam Grier. Actress: Jackie Brown. 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 ...
Pam Grier. Actress: Jackie Brown. 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 ...
Sep 15, 2019 · Pam Grier on maintaining her independence and identity in showbiz. What an odd thing it is to have a career like Pam Grier’s. Her long, respectable tenure as an actress is illuminated in the ...
Feb 8, 2023 · Pam Grier breaks down her most important roles from the beginning of her career to today.Subscribe to EW http://bit.ly/EWSubscribe#PamGrier #JackieBrown #...
Mar 1, 2020 · Pam Grier came to Hollywood in 1970, as the film industry was straining to catch up with a counterculture fuelled by sexual freedom, women’s liberation, and Black Power. Grier was an Army brat ...
May 11, 2024 · The great Pam Grier stars in season two of Amazon Prime's "Them: The Scare." She speaks to NPR's Scott Simon about her show, her career, and Black representation in Hollywood.
Feb 8, 2023 · Pam Grier isn't afraid to tell it like it is.. The icon, who rose to fame in 1970s Blaxploitation films and cemented her legacy in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, paved the way for Black ...
Nov 2, 2022 · Pam Grier in Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown (1974) . T he Pam Grier series opening today at the Wexner Center for the Arts is bookended by the two films that made Grier the first Black female action star. On the poster for Jack Hill’s Coffy (1973), she was billed as the “baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad that ever hit town!,” a vigilante nurse ruthlessly taking out pimps and drug dealers.
Feb 26, 2024 · Long before Angelina Jolie or Lupita Nyong'o were some of Hollywood's go-to female action stars, Pam Grier was doing her own stunts, chasing bad guys and seeking vigilante justice in low-budget ...
