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Pam Grier (1949 - )

By 1968, Pam finished high school at East High in Denver. Over the years of her schooling, she had gone from a shy girl with a stutter, to a contestant in the Miss Colorado Universe competition (in which she competed to help pay her way through Metropolitan State College of Denver). David Baumgarten, a talent agent, saw her at the Miss Colorado Universe competition and signed her on to the Agency for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, where she would eventually work in the office while taking acting classes.

Grier was soon discovered by film producer Roger Corman and was flown off to the Philippines to film an action movie. At the time, basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wanted her to marry him and settle down, but she was determined to continue her career as an actress. Throughout the 1970s, she grew into an action star of what became known as “Black Exploitation,” or “Blaxploitation” films. In many ways, the films promoted stereotypes of African American communities and culture, but at the same time these were some of the first films to have Africa

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Pam Grier

Pam Grier is an American actress who was a 1970s pop culture icon thanks to a string of roles as tough and sexy heroines in such blaxploitation classics as "Coffy" (1973), "Foxy Brown" (1974), and "Sheba, Baby" (1975). A statuesque figure who radiated confidence and determination, she surpassed the conventions of the genre to establish herself as the first black female action hero and box office draw. A revival of interest thanks to the home video boom brought her back to films in the '80s and '90s.

Unabashed fan Quentin Tarantino paid homage to her screen persona with "Jackie Brown" (1997), which led to a long-overdue career boost; she was soon tackling substantive roles in the Showtime series "The L Word" (2004-09) and reaping the rewards of a career forged in hard work and determination. She remained an enduring symbol of female empowerment at its funkiest and most ferocious.

Pamela Suzette Grier was born May 26, 1949 in Winston-Salem, NC, one of three children by Clarence Ransom Grier, an Air Force mechanic and technical sergeant, and wife Gwendolyn Samuels, a nur

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Pam Grier

American actress (born 1949)

Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star,^[2] 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 filmJackie Brown (1997), nearly three decades after her first starring role. Grier also appeared in Escape from