Book Pam Grier

Pam Grier is an American actress who also sings and trained in martial arts, and she became one of the defining screen icons of the 1970s. Starring in action, blaxploitation and women-in-prison pictures for New World Pictures and American International Pictures, she headlined Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), and also starred in The Big Doll House and Women in Cages (both 1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), Black Mama White Mama and Scream Blacula Scream (both 1973), Sheba, Baby and Friday Foster (both 1975). She played opposite Richard Pryor in Greased Lightning (1977). Quentin Tarantino cast her in the title role of Jackie Brown (1997), a celebrated second act, and her other credits include Escape from L.A. and Mars Attacks! (both 1996), Holy Smoke! (1999), Just Wright (2010), Larry Crowne (2011) and Poms (2019). On television she starred in Showtime's Linc's and as Kit Porter on The L Word, and later in ABC's Bless This Mess. Her honors include Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations and the 2018 Time Machine Award. Grier brings trailblazing star power and stories from five decades in film.