Person Details

Birthday: 1949-05-26 20:27:03

Aliases: Pam Greer , Pamela Grier

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

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Movie Involvements: 77

TV Involvements: 12


Most Famous Work

Biography

Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) 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 such as 1974's Foxy Brown. Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown. She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in the iconic film Jackie Brown. She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in an 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 cinema's first female action star. 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
Average
8

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

(1999) Assistant US Attorney Claudia Williams
Miami Vice
Average
7

Miami Vice

(1984) Valerie Gordon
Smallville
Average
8

Smallville

(2001) Amanda Waller
Intimate Portrait
Average
5

Intimate Portrait

(1993) Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Average
7
This Is Us
Average
8

This Is Us

(2016) Grandma
Justice League
Average
8

Justice League

(2001) My'ria'h (voice)
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Average
7

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Lisa(Archive Footage)
N/A
Majorie Washburn
Mama
2022 Self - Guest
2021 Self (archival 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)
2012 Self
Jane
Detective Barrick
2011 Self - Actress
Frances
James Womack
2010 N/A
Self
Janice Wright
Zelda
2009 Self
2008 Birdie
2005 Mrs. Cooper
2004 Kit Porter
2003 Self (archive footage)
Self
Linda Fox
Claire Washburn
2002 Self
Flura Nash
Self
2001 My'ria'h (voice)
Suzette Lermontant
Pearl
Amanda Waller
Commander Helena Braddock
Dr. Lewis
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
(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 Ms. Wardroe
1990 Janice
Ms. Connors
1989 Ruth Butler
1988 Delores 'Jacks' Jackson
1987 Sgt. McLeesh
1986 Suzanne Terry
Cara
Hunter
1985 Cathryn Bolan
Alexandra 'Alie' Horn
1984 Valerie Gordon
N/A
Benet Collins
1983 Myra
Dust Witch
1981 Charlotte
1979 N/A
Francey
1977 Cynthia Wilbur
Mary Jones
Sandra
1976 Regine
1975 Friday Foster
Aretha
Sheba Shayne
1974 Foxy Brown
Mamawi
1973 Lisa Fortier
"Coffy" Coffin
Lee Daniels
1972 Gozelda (as Pamela Grier)
Blossom
Ayesa, the Panther Woman
Mona (as Pamela Grier)
1971 Alabama
Grear
1970 Fourth Woman (as Pamela Grier)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
1990 Thanks
Year Role Movie/Tv

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