Pam Grier

About Pam Grier

She is an American actress best known for her roles in various blaxploitation films and six seasons of The L Word as Kit Porter.

Pamela Suzette Grier, PhD 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 and Foxy Brown. Her other major films during this period included The Big Doll House, Women in Cages, The Big Bird Cage, Black Mama, White Mama, Scream Blacula Scream, The Arena, Sheba, Baby, Bucktown, and Friday Foster. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, she starred as the titular character in Tarantino's crime film Jackie Brown, 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, Bones, Just Wright, Larry Crowne, and Poms.

Alma mater	Metropolitan State College
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1970–present
Known for	Coffy, Foxy Brown, Sheba, Baby, Friday Foster, Jackie Brown, The L Word
Born	Pamela Suzette Grier, May 26, 1949, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.

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Trivia

She received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. She also received an Emmy nomination for her voiceover work in Happily Ever After.

Pam Grier before fame

She worked at the American International Pictures company as a receptionist.

Achievement of Pam Grier

For her role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She was also nominated for an Emmy for her voiceover performance in Happily Ever After.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$10 million (2018)

Pam Grier family life

She grew up as a military brat, travelling around the United States and the United Kingdom. Rodney and Gina are her two siblings. Kareem Abdul-Jabar was one of her boyfriends. In 1997, she was engaged to Kevin Evans, however the two never married.

Associations of Pam Grier

Her first notable role was opposite Antonio Fargas in Foxy Brown as the title character.

Pam Grier Height, Weight & Physique Measurements

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Height	173 cm
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