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Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette Grier is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. She achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women-in-prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award and a Saturn Award.
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Born 26 May 1949 · Q233862
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2026· 7 entries
Winnipeg Free Press: Veteran actress Grier to headline Film Training Manitoba event
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ChrisD.ca: Film Icon Pam Grier to Keynote Winnipeg’s SWIFT Conference
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CTV News: Pam Grier to speak at Manitoba conference
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AOL: Pam Grier, Trailblazing Action Star, Celebrates 77th Birthday Today
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Hip-Hop Wired: Pam Grier Says She Inspired Black Marvel Characters
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Reported net worth: $10M.
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Pam Grier Reveals She’s In A “Cosmic” Relationship With Mystery Man, And Is “Horny As F**k”
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Essence: 12 Iconic Pam Grier Beauty Moments
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Time Machine Award (2018).
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2016· 1 entry
IndieWire named Grier one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination
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2010· 2 entries
Grier began appearing in a recurring role on the hit science-fiction series Smallville as the villain Amanda Waller, also known as White Queen, head agent of Checkmate, a covert operations agency
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Grier wrote her memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, with Andrea Cagan
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1998· 1 entry
Grier was engaged to RCA Records executive Kevin Evans, but the engagement ended in 1999
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1994· 1 entry
Grier appeared in Snoop Dogg's video for "Doggy Dogg World"
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1988· 1 entry
Grier was diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer in 1988, and was told she had 18 months to live.
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1985· 1 entry
Grier made her theatrical debut in Sam Shepard's Fool for Love at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
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1977· 1 entry
Pryor married Deborah McGuire while dating Grier in 1977.
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1967· 1 entry
Where she was initially hired to work the switchboard at American International Pictures (AIP)
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1958· 1 entry
When Grier's father was transferred to California's Travis Air Force Base, eventually settling in Denver, near Lowry Air Force Base
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1956· 1 entry
Moved to Swindon, England, where her father worked on an air force base
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1949· 2 entries
Born 1949-05-26.
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In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gwendolyn Sylvia Davis, a homemaker and nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr
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1911· 1 entry
Decades before Grier's birth
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