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How It Feels to Be Free

as Self (archival footage)

2021
Bless This Mess

as Constance

2019
Poms

as Olive

2019
A Christmas Wish

as Mary

2019
Bad Grandmas

as Coralee

2017
Cleveland Abduction

as Carla

2015
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day

as Detective Barrick

2012
Larry Crowne

as Frances

2011
Mafia

as James Womack

2011
Just Wright

as Janice Wright

2010
The Invited

as Zelda

2010
Ladies of the House

as Birdie

2008
Back in the Day

as Mrs. Cooper

2005
The L Word

as Kit Porter

2004
Love the Hard Way

as Linda Fox

2003
First to Die

as Claire Washburn

2003
BaadAsssss Cinema

as Self

2002
Ghosts of Mars

as Commander Helena Braddock

2001
Bones

as Pearl

2001
Feast of All Saints

as Suzette Lermontant

2001
3 A.M.

as George

2001
Fortress 2

as Susan Mendenhall

2000
Pam Grier Pam Grier

Birthday

1949-05-26

Place of Birth

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Biography

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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