Pam Grier

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.

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

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.

• Note: Many of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• May 26, 1949: Born

• 1970 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1971 The Big Doll House: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1971 Women in Cages: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1972 Black Mama, White Mama: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1972 Cool Breeze: IMDb

• 1972 The Big Bird Cage: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1972 Hit Man: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1973 The Twilight People: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1973 Coffy: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1973 Scream Blacula Scream: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1974 The Arena: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1974 Foxy Brown: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1975 Sheba, Baby: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1975 Bucktown: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1975 Friday Foster: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1976 Drum: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1977 Notte dell'alta marea, La: IMDb

• 1977 Greased Lightning: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1979 Roots: The Next Generations: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1981 Fort Apache the Bronx: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1983 Something Wicked This Way Comes: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1983 Tough Enough: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1985 On the Edge: IMDb

• 1985 Stand Alone: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1985 Badge of the Assassin: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1986 The Vindicator: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1987 The Allnighter: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1988 Above the Law: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1989 The Package: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1990 Class of 1999: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1991 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1992 A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story: IMDb

• 1993 Posse: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1995 Serial Killer: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1996 Original Gangstas: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1996 Escape from L.A.: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1996 Family Blessings: IMDb

• 1996 Mars Attacks!: IMDb | Mars Attacks! | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1997 Fakin' Da Funk: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1997 Strip Search: IMDb

• 1997 Jackie Brown: IMDb | Jackie Brown | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1999 Hayley Wagner, Star IMDb

• 1999 Fortress 2: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1999 Jawbreaker: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1999 No Tomorrow: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1999 In Too Deep: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 1999 Holy Smoke: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2000 Snow Day: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2000 Wilder: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2001 3 A.M.: IMDb

• 2001 Love the Hard Way: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2001 Ghosts of Mars: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2001 Bones: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2001 Feast of All Saints: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2002 Baby of the Family: IMDb

• 2002 The Adventures of Pluto Nash: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2003 1st to Die: IMDb

• 2004-???? The L Word: IMDb | The L Word | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2005: Back in the Day: IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes

• 2008 The Conjuring: IMDb