Pam Grier
Acting
1949-05-26 · Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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).
Filmography
The Way Things Seem to Be
2026 · Movie
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Movie
Mystery Cuddlers
2024 · Movie
As We Know It
2023 · Movie
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
2023 · Movie
Cinnamon
2023 · Movie
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Series
Sherri
2022 · Series
Them
2021 · Series
How It Feels to Be Free
2021 · Movie
The Great North
2021 · Series
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021 · Movie
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
2020 · Movie
Beautiful Like a Poem
2020 · Movie
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020 · Series
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020 · Movie
A Christmas Wish
2019 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
Poms
2019 · Movie
Bless This Mess
2019 · Series
Being Rose
2017 · Movie
Bad Grandmas
2017 · Movie
Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)
2016 · Movie
This Is Us
2016 · Series
Kings of Cult
2015 · Movie
Cleveland Abduction
2015 · Movie
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking
2013 · Movie
The Man with the Iron Fists
2012 · Movie
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
2012 · Movie
Corman's World
2011 · Movie
Larry Crowne
2011 · Movie
Bob's Burgers
2011 · Series
Mafia
2011 · Movie
Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1
2010 · Movie
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
2010 · Movie
Just Wright
2010 · Movie
The Invited
2010 · Movie
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009 · Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Ladies of the House
2008 · Movie
Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005 · Movie
Back in the Day
2005 · Movie
The L Word
2004 · Series
A Decade Under the Influence
2003 · Movie
Love the Hard Way
2003 · Movie
First to Die
2003 · Movie
Jackie Brown: How It Went Down
2002 · Movie
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002 · Movie
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 · Movie
Justice League
2001 · Series
Feast of All Saints
2001 · Movie
Bones
2001 · Movie
Smallville
2001 · Series
Strange Frequency
2001 · Series
Ghosts of Mars
2001 · Movie
3 A.M.
2001 · Movie
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001 · Movie
Wilder
2000 · Movie
Fortress 2
2000 · Movie
Snow Day
2000 · Movie
No Tomorrow
1999 · Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
Hayley Wagner, Star
1999 · Movie
Holy Smoke
1999 · Movie
In Too Deep
1999 · Movie
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999 · Series
Jawbreaker
1999 · Movie
Family Blessings
1998 · Movie
Pete Rock: Soul Survivor
1998 · Movie
All Saints: The Video
1998 · Movie
Hollywood Squares
1998 · Series
The Wild Thornberrys
1998 · Series
Linc's
1998 · Series
Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am
1998 · Movie
Jackie Brown
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Fakin' Da Funk
1997 · Movie
Strip Search
1997 · Movie
Afro Promo
1997 · Movie
Mars Attacks!
1996 · Movie
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
Escape from L.A.
1996 · Movie
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Original Gangstas
1996 · Movie
Sinbad: Son of a Preacher Man
1996 · Movie
Badass Supermama
1996 · Movie
MADtv
1995 · Series
Serial Killer
1995 · Movie
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Series
The Wayans Bros.
1995 · Series
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Series
The Sinbad Show
1993 · Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Posse
1993 · Movie
A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story
1992 · Movie
Martin
1992 · Series
Pacific Station
1991 · Series
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991 · Movie
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990 · Series
Class of 1999
1990 · Movie
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
1990 · Movie
The Package
1989 · Movie
Monsters
1988 · Series
Above the Law
1988 · Movie
Frank's Place
1987 · Series
The Allnighter
1987 · Movie
Crime Story
1986 · Series
On the Edge
1986 · Movie
The Vindicator
1986 · Movie
Stand Alone
1985 · Movie
Badge of the Assassin
1985 · Movie
The Cosby Show
1984 · Series
Miami Vice
1984 · Series
Night Court
1984 · Series
Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983 · Movie
Tough Enough
1983 · Movie
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981 · Movie
Knots Landing
1979 · Series
Roots: The Next Generations
1979 · Series
The Love Boat
1977 · Series
Greased Lightning
1977 · Movie
Twilight of Love
1977 · Movie
Drum
1976 · Movie
Friday Foster
1975 · Movie
Bucktown
1975 · Movie
Sheba, Baby
1975 · Movie
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Series
Foxy Brown
1974 · Movie
The Arena
1974 · Movie
Scream Blacula Scream
1973 · Movie
Coffy
1973 · Movie
Black Mama, White Mama
1973 · Movie
Hit Man
1972 · Movie
The Big Bird Cage
1972 · Movie
The Twilight People
1972 · Movie
Cool Breeze
1972 · Movie
Women in Cages
1971 · Movie
The Big Doll House
1971 · Movie
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
Diggin’ Up "Bones"
Movie