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| Birth Name(s) : Pamela Suzette Grier |
Date of Birth: May 26, 1949 |
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Full Pam Grier Biography
Pam Grier has been a major African American actress from the early seventies. Her career started back in 1971 when Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched her into Big Doll House, The (1971), about a woman's penitentary and Big Bird Cage, The (1972). Her strong role put her into a five year contract with Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures and from then Grier became a leading lady in action films such as two of the Jack Hill films: Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), and the comic strip character Friday Foster (1975) and the William Girdler film Sheba, Baby (1975). She continued work with American International where she portrayed William Marshall's vampire victim in the 'Blacula' sequel, Scream, Blacula, Scream! (1973).
During the eighties she became a regular on "Miami Vice" (1984)and played a supporting role as an evil witch in Ray Bradbury's and Walt Disney Pictures Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) and then returned to action as Steven Seagal's partner in Above the Law (1988). Her most famous role of the 90s was probably Jackie Brown (1997), directed by Quentin Tarantino, which was a homage to her earlier 70s action roles, but she occasionally did supporting roles as in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996), In Too Deep (1999) and her funny performance in Jawbreaker (1999). More recently she appeared in John Carpenter's _Ghosts of Mars (2001) and co-starred with Snoop Dogg in Bones (2001). Her entire career of over thirty years has brought only success for this beautiful and talented actress. |
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Grier was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S., to African-American parents, both with some Native American ancestory. Her father, Clarence Ransom Grier, who worked as a mechanic and Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force, and her mother, Gwendolyn Sylvia (née Samuels), a homemaker and nurse. She has two sisters and one brother. She is a cousin of former football star Rosey Grier. Because of her father's military career, Pam's family moved frequently during her childhood, to various places such as England, and eventually settled in Denver, Colorado, where Pam 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.
According to one of the many John Lennon biographies, she was at the famed Troubador night club in Hollywood the night Lennon was ejected for drunkenly heckling The Smothers Brothers. |
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