Pam Grier
Age: N/A | From: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Pam Greer , Pamela Grier , Pamela Suzette Grier , 帕姆·格里爾 , پم گرییر
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 78
TV Involvements: 13
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(1999) Assistant US Attorney Claudia Williams
Intimate Portrait
(1993) Self
Smallville
(2001) Amanda Waller
This Is Us
(2016) Grandma
Miami Vice
(1984) Valerie Gordon
Crime Story
(1986) Suzanne Terry
The L Word
(2004) Kit Porter
Knots Landing
(1979) Lieutenant GuthrieActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Juniper | |
| 2023 | N/A | |
| Majorie Washburn | ||
| Mama | ||
| 2022 | Self - Guest | |
| Self | ||
| 2021 | Athena | |
| Self (archival footage) | ||
| Neckbone (voice) | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2020 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2019 | Mary | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Olive | ||
| Constance | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2017 | Lily | |
| Coralee | ||
| 2016 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Grandma | ||
| 2015 | (archive footage) | |
| Carla | ||
| 2013 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self | ||
| 2012 | Jane | |
| Detective Barrick | ||
| 2011 | Self - Actress | |
| Frances | ||
| James Womack | ||
| 2010 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| Janice Wright | ||
| Zelda | ||
| 2009 | Self | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| 2008 | Birdie | |
| 2005 | Alabama (archive footage) | |
| Mrs. Cooper | ||
| 2004 | Kit Porter | |
| 2003 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self | ||
| Claire Washburn | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| Flura Nash | ||
| Self | ||
| Linda Fox | ||
| 2001 | My'ria'h (voice) | |
| Suzette Lermontant | ||
| Pearl | ||
| Amanda Waller | ||
| Commander Helena Braddock | ||
| Dr. Lewis (segment "Switch") | ||
| George | ||
| Self | ||
| 2000 | Detective Della Wilder | |
| Susan Mendenhall | ||
| Tina | ||
| 1999 | Diane | |
| Assistant US Attorney Claudia Williams | ||
| Sam | ||
| Carol | ||
| Det. Angela Wilson | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Detective Vera Cruz | ||
| 1998 | Mrs. Quincy | |
| Pam Grier | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mother Springbok (voice) | ||
| Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1997 | Jackie Brown | |
| Self | ||
| Annabelle Lee | ||
| Janette | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1996 | Louise Williams | |
| N/A | ||
| Hershe Las Palamas | ||
| Self | ||
| Laurie Thompson | ||
| Self | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1995 | Self - Guest Host | |
| Capt. Maggie Davis | ||
| Nightingale (voice) | ||
| Erica | ||
| 1993 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Phoebe | ||
| 1992 | Linda Holman | |
| N/A | ||
| 1991 | Grace Ballard | |
| Ms. Wardroe | ||
| 1990 | Janice | |
| Ms. Connors | ||
| 1989 | Ruth Butler | |
| 1988 | Delores 'Jacks' Jackson | |
| 1987 | Neema Sharone | |
| Sgt. McLeesh | ||
| 1986 | Suzanne Terry | |
| Cara | ||
| Hunter | ||
| 1985 | Cathryn Bolan | |
| Alexandra 'Alie' Horn | ||
| 1984 | Samantha | |
| N/A | ||
| Valerie Gordon | ||
| Benet Collins | ||
| 1983 | Dust Witch | |
| Myra | ||
| 1981 | Charlotte | |
| 1979 | Lieutenant Guthrie | |
| Francey | ||
| 1977 | Cynthia Wilbur | |
| Mary Jones | ||
| Sandra | ||
| 1976 | Regine | |
| 1975 | Friday Foster | |
| Aretha | ||
| Sheba Shayne | ||
| 1974 | Foxy Brown | |
| Mamawi | ||
| 1973 | Lisa Fortier | |
| Coffy | ||
| Lee Daniels | ||
| 1972 | Gozelda | |
| Blossom | ||
| Ayesa, the Panther Woman | ||
| Mona (as Pamela Grier) | ||
| 1971 | Alabama | |
| Grear | ||
| 1970 | Fourth Woman (as Pamela Grier) | |
| 1962 | Self | |
| Herself (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Thanks | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
