Pam Grier
1949-05-26 ( 75 years old ) 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.

Movies

As We Know It 2023-11-24
Cinnamon 2023-06-11
Poms 2019-05-09
Being Rose 2017-11-09
Bad Grandmas 2017-11-03
Kings of Cult 2015-09-02
Corman's World 2011-12-16
Larry Crowne 2011-06-30
Mafia 2011-01-01
Just Wright 2010-05-14
The Invited 2010-01-01
First to Die 2003-02-23
Bones 2001-10-24
Ghosts of Mars 2001-08-24
3 A.M. 2001-07-01
Wilder 2000-11-01
Fortress 2 2000-03-02
Snow Day 2000-02-11
No Tomorrow 1999-10-19
Holy Smoke 1999-09-04
In Too Deep 1999-08-25
Jawbreaker 1999-01-30
Jackie Brown 1997-12-25
Fakin' Da Funk 1997-07-20
Strip Search 1997-04-02
Afro Promo 1997-01-31
Mars Attacks! 1996-12-13
Serial Killer 1995-10-05
Posse 1993-05-14
Class of 1999 1990-04-01
The Package 1989-01-25
Above the Law 1988-04-08
The Allnighter 1987-05-01
On the Edge 1986-05-02
The Vindicator 1986-02-14
Stand Alone 1985-09-01
Tough Enough 1983-04-14
Drum 1976-07-30
Friday Foster 1975-12-25
Bucktown 1975-07-02
Sheba, Baby 1975-03-26
Foxy Brown 1974-04-05
The Arena 1974-03-13
Coffy 1973-06-13
Hit Man 1972-12-20
Cool Breeze 1972-03-29
Women in Cages 1971-10-19