Pam Grier
Acting
🎂 1949-05-26
Pamela Suzette Grier 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).
Cast credits(136)
Assistant US Attorney Claudia Williams
1999
Self
1996
Amanda Waller
2001
Self
1962
Cynthia Wilbur
1977
Self - Guest
2009
Self
2019
Self
2022
Self - Guest
2022
1984
Valerie Gordon
1984
Grandma
2016
Benet Collins
1984
Samantha
1984
Lieutenant Guthrie
1979
Self
1997
Kit Porter
2004
1992
Janice
1990
Self - Guest
1993
Self
2009
Neckbone (voice)
2021
Self
1993
My'ria'h (voice)
2001
Mother Springbok (voice)
1998
1998
Louise Williams
1996
Erica
1995
Athena
2021
Jackie Brown
1997
Nightingale (voice)
1995
Self - Guest
1999
Hershe Las Palamas
1996
Ayesa, the Panther Woman
1972
Suzanne Terry
1986
Commander Helena Braddock
2001
Jane
2012
Delores 'Jacks' Jackson
1988
Ms. Wardroe
1991
Majorie Washburn
2023
2020
Frances
2011
Ruth Butler
1989
Constance
2019
Pam Grier
1998
Janice Wright
2010
Beverly Jones
2023
Mary
2019
Carol
1999
Detective Vera Cruz
1999
Carla
2015
Gozelda
1972
Francey
1979
Ms. Connors
1990
Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop
1998
Tina
2000
Friday Foster
1975
Foxy Brown
1974
Laurie Thompson
1996
Self (archive footage)
2019
Flura Nash
2002
Olive
2019
Coffy
1973
Pearl
2001
1993
Susan Mendenhall
2000
Sgt. McLeesh
1987
George
2001
Det. Angela Wilson
1999
Suzette Lermontant
2001
Self - Actress
2011
Self (archive footage)
2013
Self
2020
Dust Witch
1983
Regine
1976
Mama
2023
Aretha
1975
Hunter
1986
Mrs. Cooper
2005
Claire Washburn
2003
Fourth Woman
1970
Zelda
2010
Blossom
1972
Mrs. Quincy
1998
Mamawi
1974
Phoebe
1993
Self
2002
Lisa Fortier
1973
Self (archive footage)
2021
Linda Fox
2002
Juniper
2024
Lily
2017
Alabama
1971
Charlotte
1981
Self (archival footage)
2021
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Self
2003
Self - Guest Host
1995
Grear
1971
Birdie
2008
Alabama (archive footage)
2005
Neema Sharone
1987
Cara
1986
2010
Alexandra 'Alie' Horn
1985
Diane
1999
Lee Daniels
1973
Self
2002
Cathryn Bolan
1985
Grace Ballard
1991
Myra
1983
Coralee
2017
Sam
1999
Detective Barrick
2012
Self
2020
Self
2013
James Womack
2011
1996
Self
2010
Self (archive footage)
2019
Capt. Maggie Davis
1995
Detective Della Wilder
2000
Sheba Shayne
1975
Annabelle Lee
1997
Linda Holman
1992
Mary Jones
1977
Mona
1972
Narrator (voice)
1998
Self
1996
Sandra
1977
Self (archive footage)
2016
(archive footage)
1996
Self
2001
Self (archive footage)
1997
Janette
1997
(archive footage)
2015
