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Pam Grier actress
Born: 5/26/1949
Birthplace: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The Hollywood gods finally were good to Pam Grier in 1997, who finally got a complete role after years of toiling in women-in-chains movies such as The Big Doll House (1971) and blaxploitation films such as Scream, Blacula, Scream! (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). Quentin Tarantino paid homage to Grier by creating a vehicle for her, Jackie Brown (1997), which also starred Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, and Robert De Niro. She is a cast member of Showtime's series, The L Word (2004– ).
Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on Pam Grier from Infoplease:
- Pam Grier - Biography of Pam Grier, Star of the 1970s cult hit Foxy Brown
- Jackie Brown - Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert DeNiro, Michael Keaton
- Quentin Tarantino - Biography of Quentin Tarantino, Writer and director of Pulp Fiction
- Bones - Starring Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, Khalil Kain, Michael T Weiss, Bianca Lawson
- Holy Smoke! - Starring Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Pam Grier, Sophie Lee, Tim Rogers
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