Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. Described by director 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).
Tuntud rollide järgi
8.0 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
5.0 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
6.4 The Daily Show
1996
8.2 Smallville
2001
7.5 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
6.3 The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
7.8 Bob's Burgers
2011
2.6 Sherri
2022
5.6 The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
7.6 Hollywood Squares
1998
6.3 The Love Boat
1977
4.3 The View
1997
Filmograafia
- 2026The Way Things Seem to Be (Self)
- 2025Breakdown: 1975 (Self (archive footage))
- 2024Mystery Cuddlers (Juniper)
- 2023As We Know It (Beverly Jones)
- 2023Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (Majorie Washburn)
- 2023Cinnamon (Mama)
- 2021How It Feels to Be Free (Self (archival footage))
- 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend (Self (archive footage))
- 2020Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (Self)
- 2020Beautiful Like a Poem (Self (archive footage))
- 2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness (Self)
- 2019A Christmas Wish (Mary)
- 2019Poms (Olive)
- 2017Being Rose (Lily)
- 2017Bad Grandmas (Coralee)
- 2016Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) (Self (archive footage))
- 2015Kings of Cult ((archive footage))
- 2015Cleveland Abduction (Carla)
- 2013Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (Self (archive footage))
- 2013Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking (Self)
- 2012The Man with the Iron Fists (Jane)
- 2012Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (Detective Barrick)
- 2011Corman's World (Self - Actress)
- 2011Larry Crowne (Frances)
- 2011Mafia (James Womack)
- 2010Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1 (Self)
- 2010Machete Maidens Unleashed! (Self)
- 2010Just Wright (Janice Wright)
- 2010The Invited (Zelda)
- 2008Ladies of the House (Birdie)
- 2005Bad Girls Behind Bars (Alabama (archive footage))
- 2005Back in the Day (Mrs. Cooper)
- 2003A Decade Under the Influence (Self)
- 2003Love the Hard Way (Linda Fox)
- 2003First to Die (Claire Washburn)
- 2002Jackie Brown: How It Went Down (Self)
- 2002The Adventures of Pluto Nash (Flura Nash)
- 2002BaadAsssss Cinema (Self)
- 2001Feast of All Saints (Suzette Lermontant)
- 2001Bones (Pearl)
- 2001Ghosts of Mars (Commander Helena Braddock)
- 20013 A.M. (George)
- 2001It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (Self)
- 2000Wilder (Detective Della Wilder)
- 2000Fortress 2 (Susan Mendenhall)
- 2000Snow Day (Tina)
- 1999No Tomorrow (Diane)
- 1999Hayley Wagner, Star (Sam)
- 1999Holy Smoke (Carol)
- 1999In Too Deep (Det. Angela Wilson)
- 1999Jawbreaker (Detective Vera Cruz)
- 1998Family Blessings (Mrs. Quincy)
- 1998Pete Rock: Soul Survivor (Pam Grier)
- 1998All Saints: The Video (Herself (archive footage) (uncredited))
- 1998The Wild Thornberrys (Mother Springbok (voice))
- 1998Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am (Narrator (voice))
- 1997Jackie Brown (Jackie Brown)
- 1997The View (Self)
- 1997Fakin' Da Funk (Annabelle Lee)
- 1997Strip Search (Janette)
- 1997Afro Promo (Self (archive footage))
- 1996Mars Attacks! (Louise Williams)
- 1996E! True Hollywood Story
- 1996Escape from L.A. (Hershe Las Palamas)
- 1996Original Gangstas (Laurie Thompson)
- 1996Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man (Self)
- 1996Badass Supermama ((archive footage))
- 1995Serial Killer (Capt. Maggie Davis)
- 1995The Wayans Bros. (Erica)
- 1993The Sinbad Show
- 1993Posse (Phoebe)
- 1992A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story (Linda Holman)
- 1991Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (Ms. Wardroe)
- 1990Class of 1999 (Ms. Connors)
- 1989The Package (Ruth Butler)
- 1988Above the Law (Delores 'Jacks' Jackson)
- 1987The Allnighter (Sargeant McLeish)
- 1986On the Edge (Cara)
- 1986The Vindicator (Hunter)
- 1985Stand Alone (Cathryn Bolan)
- 1985Badge of the Assassin (Alexandra 'Alie' Horn)
- 1983Something Wicked This Way Comes (Dust Witch)
- 1983Tough Enough (Myra)
- 1981Fort Apache, the Bronx (Charlotte)
- 1977Greased Lightning (Mary Jones)
- 1977La notte dell'alta marea (Sandra)
- 1976Drum (Regine)
- 1975Friday Foster (Friday Foster)
- 1975Bucktown (Aretha)
- 1975Sheba, Baby (Sheba Shayne)
- 1974Foxy Brown (Foxy Brown)
- 1974The Arena (Mamawi)
- 1973Scream Blacula Scream (Lisa Fortier)
- 1973Coffy (Coffy)
- 1973Black Mama, White Mama (Lee Daniels)
- 1972Hit Man (Gozelda)
- 1972The Big Bird Cage (Blossom)
- 1972The Twilight People (Ayesa, the Panther Woman)
- 1972Cool Breeze (Mona)
- 1971Women in Cages (Alabama)
- 1971The Big Doll House (Grear)
- 1970Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Fourth Woman)
- -Diggin’ Up "Bones" (Self)
- 2022Sherri (Self - Guest)
- 2022The Jennifer Hudson Show (Self)
- 2021Them (Athena)
- 2021The Great North (Neckbone (voice))
- 2020Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time (Self)
- 2019The Kelly Clarkson Show (Self)
- 2019Bless This Mess (Constance)
- 2016This Is Us (Grandma)
- 2011Bob's Burgers (Evelyn (voice))
- 2009Celebrity Ghost Stories (Self)
- 2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Self - Guest)
- 2004The L Word (Kit Porter)
- 2001Justice League (My'ria'h (voice))
- 2001Smallville (Amanda Waller)
- 2001Strange Frequency
- 1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Assistant US Attorney Claudia Williams)
- 1999The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (Self - Guest)
- 1998Hollywood Squares (Self - Panelist)
- 1998Linc's (Eleanor Braithwaite Winthrop)
- 1996The Daily Show (Self - Guest)
- 1995MADtv (Self)
- 1995MADtv (self)
- 1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (Nightingale (voice))
- 1993Intimate Portrait (Self)
- 1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Self - Guest)
- 1992Martin (Pam Grier)
- 1991Pacific Station (Grace Ballard)
- 1990The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Janice)
- 1988Monsters (Matilde)
- 1987Frank's Place (Neema Sharone)
- 1986Crime Story (Suzanne Terry)
- 1984The Cosby Show (Samantha)
- 1984Miami Vice
- 1984Miami Vice (Valerie Gordon)
- 1984Night Court (Benet Collins)
- 1979Knots Landing (Lieutenant Guthrie)
- 1979Roots: The Next Generations (Francey)
- 1977The Love Boat (Cynthia Wilbur)
- 1975People's Choice Awards (Self)
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Self)