Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She became famous in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films such as 1974's Foxy Brown. Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown. She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in the iconic film Jackie Brown. She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in an Animated Program Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child. Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second Greatest Female Action Heroine in film history. Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinema's first female action star. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pam Grier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- May 26, 1949 In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 111
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970-06-17
- Latest Project:
- Movie Pet Sematary: Bloodlines 2023-09-23
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Cinnamon | Mama | 2023-06-11 |
| Movie | Pet Sematary: Bloodlines | Majorie Washburn | 2023-09-23 |
| Movie | Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Self (archive footage) | 2021-01-02 |
| Series | Them | Athena | 2021-04-09 |
| Movie | Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness | Self | 2020-04-21 |
| Movie | Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies | Self | 2020-08-18 |
| Movie | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Self (archive footage) | 2019-02-07 |
| Series | Bless This Mess | Constance | 2019-04-16 |
| Movie | A Christmas Wish | Mary | 2019-11-28 |
| Movie | Poms | Olive | 2019-05-09 |
| Movie | QT8: The First Eight | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-21 |
| Movie | Bad Grandmas | Coralee | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | Being Rose | Lily | 2017-11-09 |
| Movie | Durant's Never Closes | B.J. | 2016-01-22 |
| Series | This Is Us | Joyce | 2016-09-20 |
| Movie | Cleveland Abduction | Carla | 2015-05-02 |
| Movie | Kings of Cult | (archive footage) | 2015-09-02 |
| Movie | Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking | Self | 2013-01-10 |
| Movie | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic | Self (archive footage) | 2013-04-23 |
| Movie | The Man with the Iron Fists | Jane | 2012-11-02 |
| Movie | Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day | Detective Barrick | 2012-04-13 |
| Movie | Mafia | James Womack | 2011-01-01 |
| Movie | Corman's World | Self - Actress | 2011-12-16 |
| Movie | Larry Crowne | Frances | 2011-06-30 |
| Movie | The Invited | Zelda | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Just Wright | Janice Wright | 2010-05-14 |
| Movie | Machete Maidens Unleashed! | Self | 2010-10-15 |
| Movie | Ladies of the House | Birdie | 2008-10-18 |
| Movie | Back in the Day | Mrs. Cooper | 2005-05-24 |
| Movie | Bad Girls Behind Bars | Alabama (archive footage) | 2005-06-12 |
| Series | The L Word | Kit Porter | 2004-01-18 |
| Movie | First to Die | Claire Washburn | 2003-02-23 |
| Movie | A Decade Under the Influence | Self | 2003-04-25 |
| Movie | Sex at 24 Frames Per Second | Self (archive footage) | 2003-09-23 |
| Movie | Love the Hard Way | Linda Fox | 2002-02-01 |
| Movie | BaadAsssss Cinema | Self | 2002-08-14 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Pluto Nash | Flura Nash | 2002-08-16 |
| Movie | Jackie Brown: How It Went Down | Self | 2002-08-20 |
| Series | Night Visions | 2001-07-12 | |
| Movie | It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures | Self | 2001-05-01 |
| Movie | Ghosts of Mars | Commander Helena Braddock | 2001-08-24 |
| Movie | 3 A.M. | George | 2001-07-01 |
| Series | Smallville | Unknown | 2001-10-16 |
| Movie | Feast of All Saints | Suzette Lermontant | 2001-11-11 |
| Movie | Bones | Pearl | 2001-10-24 |
| Movie | Snow Day | Tina | 2000-02-11 |
| Movie | Fortress 2 | Susan Mendenhall | 2000-03-02 |
| Movie | Wilder | Detective Della Wilder | 2000-11-01 |
| Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | Unknown | 1999-03-30 |
| Movie | Jawbreaker | Detective Vera Cruz | 1999-01-30 |
| Movie | In Too Deep | Det. Angela Wilson | 1999-08-25 |
| Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown | 1999-09-20 |
| Movie | Holy Smoke | Carol | 1999-09-04 |
| Movie | No Tomorrow | Diane | 1999-10-19 |
| Movie | Hayley Wagner, Star | Sam | 1999-09-19 |
| Movie | Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am | Narrator (voice) | 1998-01-01 |
| Series | Linc's | Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop | 1998-08-01 |
| Movie | Pete Rock: Soul Survivor | Pam Grier | 1998-11-10 |
| Series | The Wild Thornberrys | Unknown | 1998-09-01 |
| Movie | Strip Search | Janette | 1997-04-02 |
| Movie | Fakin' Da Funk | Annabelle Lee | 1997-07-20 |
| Movie | Afro Promo | Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-31 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Jackie Brown | Jackie Brown | 1997-12-25 |
| Movie | Original Gangstas | Laurie Thompson | 1996-05-10 |
| Movie | Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man | Self | 1996-04-10 |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
| Movie | Escape from L.A. | Hershe Las Palamas | 1996-08-09 |
| Movie | Mars Attacks! | Louise Williams | 1996-12-13 |
| Movie | Serial Killer | Capt. Maggie Davis | 1995-10-05 |
| Series | The Wayans Bros. | Unknown | 1995-01-11 |
| Series | MADtv | Unknown | 1995-10-14 |
| Movie | Posse | Phoebe | 1993-05-14 |
| Series | The Sinbad Show | Unknown | 1993-09-16 |
| Series | Martin | Unknown | 1992-08-27 |
| Movie | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Ms. Wardroe | 1991-07-19 |
| Movie | Class of 1999 | Ms. Connors | 1990-04-01 |
| Series | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Janice | 1990-09-10 |
| Movie | The Package | Ruth Butler | 1989-01-25 |
| Movie | Above the Law | Delores 'Jacks' Jackson | 1988-04-08 |
| Movie | The Allnighter | Sgt. McLeesh | 1987-05-01 |
| Movie | The Vindicator | Hunter | 1986-02-14 |
| Movie | On the Edge | Cara | 1986-05-02 |
| Series | Crime Story | Unknown | 1986-09-19 |
| Movie | Badge of the Assassin | Alexandra 'Alie' Horn | 1985-01-04 |
| Movie | Stand Alone | Cathryn Bolan | 1985-09-01 |
| Series | Miami Vice | Unknown | 1984-09-16 |
| Series | Night Court | Unknown | 1984-01-04 |
| Movie | Tough Enough | Myra | 1983-04-14 |
| Movie | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Dust Witch | 1983-04-29 |
| Movie | Fort Apache, the Bronx | Charlotte | 1981-02-06 |
| Series | Roots: The Next Generations | Francey | 1979-02-18 |
| Series | Knots Landing | Unknown | 1979-12-27 |
| Movie | Greased Lightning | Mary Jones | 1977-07-01 |
| Movie | Twilight of Love | Sandra | 1977-05-19 |
| Movie | Drum | Regine | 1976-07-30 |
| Movie | Bucktown | Aretha | 1975-07-02 |
| Movie | Sheba, Baby | Sheba Shayne | 1975-03-26 |
| Movie | Friday Foster | Friday Foster | 1975-12-25 |
| Movie | The Arena | Mamawi | 1974-03-13 |
| Movie | Foxy Brown | Foxy Brown | 1974-04-05 |
| Movie | Black Mama, White Mama | Lee Daniels | 1973-01-19 |
| Movie | Scream Blacula Scream | Lisa Fortier | 1973-06-27 |
| Movie | Coffy | Coffy | 1973-06-13 |
| Movie | Cool Breeze | Mona | 1972-03-29 |
| Movie | The Twilight People | Ayesa, the Panther Woman | 1972-06-01 |
| Movie | Hit Man | Gozelda | 1972-12-20 |
| Movie | The Big Bird Cage | Blossom | 1972-07-01 |
| Movie | The Big Doll House | Grear | 1971-04-30 |
| Movie | Women in Cages | Alabama | 1971-10-19 |
| Movie | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Fourth Woman | 1970-06-17 |