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Daily Beast - Found Mar. 16, 2010 "I took it seriously," said Pam Grier, who starred in four women-in-prison movies in 1970s, including Black Mama, White Mama, and The Big Doll... |
Actress Pam Grier: Snoop Doggs scared of my horses
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Monsters and Critics - Found Mar. 13, 2010 ... star Pam Grier has revealed that Snoop Dogg may not be as tough as he likes to think, claiming the rapper is scared of her horses. Pam Grier at... |
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Miami Herald - Found Mar. 7, 2010 The L Word star Pam Grier (above right); Miami-Dade County Commissioner Katy Sorenson and Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Gongora; |
Pam Grier: Part Foxy, Part Feminist, All Sexy
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NPR - Found Mar. 2, 2010 Enlarge American International Pictures/ Pam Grier staring as Jack Hill's 1974 Foxy Brown. American International Pictures/ Pam Grier staring as ... |
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JoBlo Movie Emporium - Found Mar. 18, 2010 And while we know Tarantino always casts whoever the hell he wants (Travolta, Pam Grier, Eli Roth, Sonny Chiba), we can probably press the... Lady Gaga to star as assassin in Quentin Tarantino film? - Metro.co.uk Lady GaGa To Team Up With Quentin Tarantino? - MaleFirst Mens Magazine Lady GaGa To Star In Next Quentin Tarantino Film As Assassin? - In Entertainment Quentin Tarantino going Gaga - stuff.co.nz Explore All |
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Coffy That Barely Stays In The Cups
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A Slip of a Girl - Found Mar. 16, 2010 Beautiful Pam Grier's bust barely contained by her contrasting ivory bra. Yummy! |
Because We Matter: Why Ebony is Still Needed ...
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Black America Web - Found Mar. 11, 2010 Who else was covering not just Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, but Diana Ross, Pam Grier, Sidney Poitier and the Jacksons? |
The Art of Cool
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Houston Press - Found Mar. 10, 2010 ... kind of parentheses, bracketing her torso, evoking the kind of tough sexuality embodied in period film characters like Pam Grier's Foxy Brown. |
51 Films in April: Peter Bogdanovich, David Gordon Green to receive ...
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Winston-Salem Journal - Found Mar. 15, 2010 Past recipients have been actors, including Ned Beatty, Pam Grier and Bill Pullman. |
Pam Grier Biography
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Pam Grier
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| Pam Grier | |
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| Born | Pamela Suzette Grier May 26, 1949 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1970–present |
Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She came to fame in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison films 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 is one of a few African American actresses to have 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 Ever Child. Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second Greatest Female Action Heroine in film history.1 Director Quentin Tarantino, in an interview promoting Jackie Brown on Charlie Rose, remarked that she may well have been cinema's first female action star.
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Biography
Early life
Grier was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gwendolyn Sylvia (née Samuels), a homemaker and nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier, who worked as a mechanic and Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force. She has one sister and one brother.2 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 there she appeared in a number of stage productions, and participated in beauty contests to raise money for college tuition toward Metropolitan State College. She is the cousin of National Football League great Rosey Grier and is also related to National Hockey League player Mike Grier.
Career
Grier moved to Los Angeles, California in 1967, where she was initially hired as a receptionist at the American International Pictures (AIP) company. She was discovered by director Jack Hill, who cast her in his women in prison films The Big Doll House (1971), and The Big Bird Cage (1972). While under contract at AIP, she became a staple of early 1970s blaxploitation movies, playing big, bold, assertive roles, beginning with Jack Hill's Coffy (1973), in which she plays a nurse who seeks revenge on drug dealers; her character was advertised in the trailer as the "baddest one-chick hit-squad that ever hit town!" The film, which was filled with sexual and violent elements typical of the genre, was a box office hit, and Grier was noted as the first African-American female to headline an action film, as protagonists of previous blaxploitation films were all male. In his review of Coffy, film critic Roger Ebert noted that Grier was an actress of "beautiful face and astonishing form" and that she possessed a kind of "physical life" missing from other actresses.3 Grier subsequently played similar characters in the AIP films Foxy Brown (1974), Friday Foster, and Sheba, Baby (both 1975).
With the demise of blaxploitation, Grier appeared in smaller roles for many years. She acquired progressively larger character roles in the 1980s, including a prostitute in Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), a witch in Something Wicked this Way Comes (1983), and Steven Seagal's detective partner in Above the Law (1988). She made guest appearances on Miami Vice, Martin, Night Court and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and also had a recurring role in the TV series Crime Story between 1986 and 1988. She also appeared on Sinbad, Preston Chronicles, The Cosby Show, The Wayans Brother Show, and Mad TV. In 1994, Grier appeared in Snoop Doggy Dogg's video for Doggy Dogg World.
According to The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman, she was at the famed Troubadour night club in Hollywood the night Lennon was ejected for drunkenly heckling the Smothers Brothers.
In the late 1990s Grier was a cast member of the Showtime series Linc's. She again appeared in 1997 with the title role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, a film that partly paid homage to her '70s blaxploitation movies. As of 2004[update], she appears in the cable television series The L Word as Kit Porter and occasionally guest-stars in such television series as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (where she is a recurring character).
In 2010, Grier began appearing in a recurring role on the hit sci-fi series Smallville as the villain Amanda Waller, also known as White Queen, head agent of Checkmate, a covert operations agency.
Personal life
Grier dated basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during the early 1970s and had a six-month affair with actor/comedian Richard Pryor around 1976-77. She was also romantically linked to actor/comedian Freddie Prinze in the 1970s. In 1998, she was engaged to music executive Kevin Evans, but the engagement was called off in 1999. From 2000 to 2008, she dated marketing executive Peter Hempel.
Filmography
Nominated NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series(2004)
Discography
- "Long Time Woman" (1971, from the film The Big Doll House)
References
- ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wanted/news/1737200/total_recall_the_25_best_action_heroines_of_all_time
- ^ Virginian-Pilot Archives
- ^ "RogerEbert.com". Coffy. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19730613/REVIEWS/301010307/1023. Retrieved May 11 2006.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490236/
External links
- Pam Grier at the Internet Movie Database
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