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• Pam Grier is an American actress who starred as the powerful female lead in a slew of blaxploitation films in the 1970s. Although her career was dormant for many years, she played the title role in Quentin Tarantino's 1997 homage to blaxploitation, Jackie Brown.

• Fast Facts:

  1. Born: May 26, 1949
  2. Full name: Pamela Suzette Grier
  3. Hometown: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  4. Notable role: Jackie Brown
  5. Nominated for Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy for Jackie Brown

• Brief Biography

  Born in North Carolina, Grier moved to Los Angeles in 1967 and was discovered by offbeat director Roger Corman who cast the young actress in his 1971 low-budget B-movies Women in Cages and The Big Doll House. She began to appear as a female lead, usually bent on revenge, in such 1970s hits as Foxy Brown, Scream Blacula Scream, and Coffy. While blaxploitation films became less popular in the 1980s, she still secured roles in such films as Fort Apache: The Bronx and Something Wicked This Way Comes in the 1980s. Her role in Tarantino's Jackie Brown earned her a Golden Globe nomination and since then, she has appeared in many other films, and has also had a recurring role as the character Kit Porter on the Showtime series The L Word.

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