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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.
Grier was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gwendolyn Sylvia (née Samuels), 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. At age 6, Grier was raped by two boys when she was left unattended at her aunt's house. "It took so long to deal with the pain of that", she says, "You try to deal with it, but you never really get over it", she adds. "And not just me; my family endured so much guilt and anger that something like that happened to me." Because of her father's military career, her family moved frequently during her childhood, to various places such as England, and eventually settled in Denver, Colorado, where she attended East High School. While in Denver, Colorado she appeared in a number of stage productions, and participated in beauty contests to raise money for college tuition toward Metropolitan State College. Contrary to previous reports, she states that she is not the cousin of National Football League great Roosevelt Grier or to National Hockey League player Mike Grier.
Pam Grier documentary
Meeting and cleaning the new slaves The Arena (1974) w/ Pam Grier
SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (PAM GRIER- FULL MOVIE)
FULL INTERVIEW: Pam Grier
Coffy 1973 full movie in English
PAM GRIER MOVIES - THE COMMODORES - "BRICK HOUSE"
Pam Grier on the meaning of badass
Pam Grier deleted scene from "On The Edge"
Mud wrestling w/ Pam Grier "The Big Doll House" (1971) Jack Hill
Gorgeous And Sexy Pam Grier
Pam Grier Talks About Dangerous Relationship With Richard Pryor-HipHollywood.com
FOXY BROWN by Legendary Juggernaut PAM GRIER MUSIC VIDEO
Pam Grier & Betty - Some Kind of Wonderful (From The L Word)
Foxy Brown (4/11) Movie CLIP - A Whole Lotta Woman (1974) HD