Pam Grier

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Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an iconic American actress. She came to fame in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women-in-prison and blaxploitation films, and has generally remained in the public eye, starring in B-movies such as 1974's Foxy Brown, and in mainstream films such as Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film, Jackie Brown. But due to her box office smash films, Pam Grier has became the Queen Of 70's films. <p>Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, to African-American parents Clarence Ransom Grier, who served in the United States Air Force and worked as a mechanic, and Gwendolyn Samuels, a homemaker and nurse; she has two sisters and one brother. 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...