Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. 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, most notably 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).Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female
action star, she starred as the titular character in Tarantino's crime
film Jackie Brown (1997), for which she received Golden Globe Award,
Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award, and Saturn Award
nominations for Best Actress. Grier's subsequent films included
Jawbreaker (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 (1998â€"2000),
Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word
(2004â€"2009), and Constance Terry in the ABC sitcom Bless This Mess
(2019â€"2020). She also received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for
her work in the animated series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for
Every Child (1999).
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, most notably 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).Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female
action star, she starred as the titular character in Tarantino's crime
film Jackie Brown (1997), for which she received Golden Globe Award,
Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award, and Saturn Award
nominations for Best Actress. Grier's subsequent films included
Jawbreaker (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 (1998â€"2000),
Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word
(2004â€"2009), and Constance Terry in the ABC sitcom Bless This Mess
(2019â€"2020). She also received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for
her work in the animated series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for
Every Child (1999).
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