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Pam Grier

26 May, 1949 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

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.

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Pam Greer Pamela GrierPamela Suzette Grier帕姆·格里爾

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Coffy
66% (1973)
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Bones
48% (2001)
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On the Edge
59% (1986)
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Holy Smoke
56% (1999)
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Wilder
40% (2000)
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Hit Man
49% (1972)
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Jawbreaker
63% (1999)
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Bucktown
56% (1975)
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No Tomorrow
49% (1999)
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Mafia
40% (2011)
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Stand Alone
52% (1985)
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Strip Search
25% (1997)
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The Invited
33% (2010)
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3 A.M.
55% (2001)
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Badass Supermama
10% (1996)
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Poms
67% (2019)
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Being Rose
70% (2017)
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Night Court
73% (1984)
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Martin
78% (1992)
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Miami Vice
75% (1984)
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The View
45% (1997)
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The L Word
77% (2004)
Linc's
20% (1998)
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MADtv
69% (1995)
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Hollywood Squares
65% (1998)
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Sherri
42% (2022)
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Them
76% (2021)
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This Is Us
82% (2016)
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Miami Vice
75% (1984)