Pamela Suzette Grier
born in 1949. His debut in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) is discrete but serves to Roger Corman, the master of B-movies, is set on it and recommends it to Jack Hill for inclusion in the prison film The Big Doll House. Pam is involved in several titles of this genre, very popular in the seventies, with women burning in cells and others.
1973 is a very productive year for the young actress. Participates in three very different films: The Arena (with gladiators and slaves stunning style fighting to Spartacus), Scream, Blacula, Scream! (A curious version of the myth of the vampire) and Coffy, known film that confirmed her as queen of blaxploitation. Over time many blockbusters come as Foxy Brown, Sheba, Baby, Friday Foster and Greased Lighting.
paper prototype Pam has in these films is always very similar: tough girl, self-ordinary heroine. With the entry of the eighties blaxploitation disappears, but the work of the actress still going strong: Grier is well suited to the times and works in Fort Apache, Stand Alone, The Vindicator and Above the Law.
The second half of the eighties and early nineties were the years of lower productivity of the actress. We see it again in 2013 from LA (1996) and Mars Attacks! (1996).
But the real return of the queen of blaxploitation is in the title role in Jackie Brown (1997), a film by Quentin Tarantino. African-American fan of seventies cinema, Tarantino pays clear homage to this film and to this end, the protagonist chooses as his biggest star, Pam Grier.
Jackie Brown's success is for the actress again have the agenda full of projects: Holy Smoke (1999), Fortaleza infernal 2 (1999), Ghosts of Mars (2001) and Pluto Nash (2002).
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