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Pam Grier (born 26 May 1949 in Winston-Salem, North CarolinaPam Grier is an American actress. She grew up in Denver, Colorado, and is cousin to football player and actor Rosey Grier.

Career

Grier was discovered by quickie director Roger Corman, who cast her in his women-in-prison pictures (1972). She became a staple of the blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s, playing big, bold, buxom, and essentially interchangeable roles in such films as (1974).

With the demise of blaxploitation, Grier's career went into hiatus for some years. She worked her way into progressively larger character roles in the 1980s, including notably the stoned prostitute in in 1985.

Ms. Grier highlighted a successful television series during the '90s on the network B.E.T.

Grier re-achieved leading lady status in 1997 as the titular stewardess in Quentin Tarantino's From Foxy Brown to Jackie Brown--a '70s icon returns to claim her throne. An interview with E!Online