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Pamela Suzette Grier (born 26 May 1949 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American actress. She grew up in Denver, Colorado, and is cousin to football player and actor Roosevelt Grier.
Career
Grier was discovered by quickie director Roger Corman, who cast her in his women-in-prison pictures The Big Doll House (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972). She became a staple of the blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s, playing big, bold, buxom, and essentially interchangeable roles in such films as Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974).
With the demise of blaxploitation, Grier's career went into hiatus for some years. She worked her way into progressively larger character roles in the 1980s, including notably the stoned prostitute in Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981), a witch in Something Wicked this Way Comes (1983), and Steven Seagal's detective partner in Above the Law (1988). She became a regular on the television detective series Miami Vice in 1984.
Grier re-achieved leading lady status in 1997 as the titular stewardess in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, which many consider her best work so far. Grier is currently appearing in the television series The L Word.
Filmography
2000's
- The L Word 2004 TV Series as Kit Porter
- 1st to Die 2003 (TV) as Claire Washburn
- Baby of the Family 2002 as Mrs. Williams
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash 2002 as Flura Nash
- Feast of All Saints 2001 (mini) TV Series as Suzette Lermontant
- Bones 2001 as Pearl
- Ghosts of Mars/John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (USA title) 2001 as Commander Helena Braddock
- Love the Hard Way 2001 as Linda Fox
- 3 A.M. 2001 as George
- Wilder 2000 as Detective Della Wilder
- Snow Day 2000 as Tina
1990's
- Fortress 2 1999 as Susan Mendenhall
- Hayley Wagner, Star 1999 (TV) as Sam
- Holy Smoke 1999 as Carol
- In Too Deep 1999 as Det. Angela Wilson
- Jawbreaker 1999 as Detective Vera Cruz
- No Tomorrow1998 as Diane
- Linc's 1998 TV Series as Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop
- Fakin' Da Funk 1997 as Annabelle Lee
- Jackie Brown 1997 as Jackie Brown
- Strip Search 1997 as Janette
- Mars Attacks 1996 as Louise Williams
- Family Blessings 1996 (TV) as Mrs. Quincy
- Escape from L.A. 1996 as Hershe Las Palmas
- Original Gangstas 1996 as Laurie Thompson
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 1995 TV Series (voice) as The Empress' Nightingale
- Serial Killer 1995 as Capt. Maggie Davis
- Posse 1993 as Phoebe
- A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story 1992 (TV) as Linda Holman
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey 1991 as Ms. Wardroe
- Class of 1999 1990 as Ms. Connors
1980's
- The Package 1989 as Ruth Butler
- Above the Law 1988 as Delores 'Jacks' Jackson
- The Allnighter 1987 as Sgt. McLeesh
- The Vindicator 1986 as Hunter
- On the Edge 1985 as Cora
- Stand Alone 1985 as Catherine Bolan
- Badge of the Assassin 1985 (TV) as Alexandra 'Alie' Horn
- Tough Enough 1983 as Myra
- Something Wicked this Way Comes 1983 as Dust Witch
- Fort Apache the Bronx 1981 as Charlotte
1970's
- Roots: The Next Generations 1979 (mini) TV Series as Francey
- Greased Lightning 1977 as Mary Jones
- Notte dell'alta marea, La 1977 (as Pamela Grier) as Sandra
- Drum 1976 (as Pamela Grier) as Regine
- Friday Foster 1975 as Friday Foster
- Bucktown 1975 as Aretha
- Sheba, Baby 1975 as Sheba Shayne
- Foxy Brown 1974 as Foxy Brown
- The Arena 1974 as Mamawi
- Scream Blacula Scream 1973 as Lisa
- Coffy 1973 as Coffy
- The Twilight People 1973 as Ayesa, the Panther Woman
- Hit Man (1972/I) (as Pamela Grier) as Gozelda
- The Big Bird Cage 1972 as Blossom
- Cool Breeze 1972 (as Pamela Grier) as Mona
- Black Mama, White Mama/Women in Chains (USA video title) 1972 as Lee Daniels
- Women in Cages 1971 as Alabama
- The Big Doll House/Women's Penitentiary III (USA title) 1971 as Grear
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970
External links
- Pam Grier at IMDb
- Cult Sirens: Pam Grier
- From Foxy Brown to Jackie Brown--a '70s icon returns to claim her throne. An interview with E!Online