Pam Grier

Pamela Suzette Pam Grier is an American actress. She became famous in the early 1970s after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films like The Big Bird Cage , Coffy , Foxy Brown and Sheba Baby . She starred in Quentin Tarantinos film Jackie Brown, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG Award as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in Jackie Brown. Grier is also known for her work on television, forseasons she portrayed Kate Kit Porter on the television series The L Word. She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in the animated program Happily Ever After Fairy Tales for Every Child. Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second greatest female action heroine in film history. Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinemas first female action star.

Pam Grier was born in WinstonSalem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gwendolyn Sylvia , a homemaker and nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier, Jr., who worked as a mechanic and Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force. She has one sister and one brother. Grier has stated that she is of mixed ancestry consisting of AfricanAmerican, Hispanic, Chinese, Filipino and Cheyenne Indian heritage.

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