Pam Grier‘s full name is Pamela Suzette Pam and she is a well known American actress. She was famous since 1970s when she starred in the string of the women in the prison. She was in the Blaxploitation films like Sheba Baby, Foxy Brown, Coffy and The Big Bird Cage. Her career was revitalized when she appeared as Jackie Brown in the movie of Quentin Tarantino and she received the Golden Globe nomination in the categories of the Best Actress. She was nominated also for the SAG awards and for Satellite Award for the performance she had in the same movie. She was in the L Word where she portrayed Kate Kit Porter and she received the Emmy Award Nomination for this work. She was also in the Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child. She was ranked as the greatest female action heroine in action at second place by Rotten Tomatoes. She was manipulative Amanda Waller who was the head of Checkmate organization in the long running series called Smallville.
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Pam Grier is a daughter of Gwendolyn who was a nurse and a homemaker and of Clarence Ransom Grier. She was born in the city of Winston-Salem in North Carolina. His father was a technical Sergeant and a mechanic in US Air force. She has a brother and a sister. Grier had started that that she is of mixed ethnicity, since the family has Cheyenne Indiana, Filipino, Chinese, Hispanic and African-American heritage.
Pam Grier was raped at the age of 6 when she was left unattended and it took long for her to deal with such pain and she said that she just tried to deal with the pain but never was able to get completely over it. Since her father was in the military career, the family liked to move and she had also to live in England but settled in East High School afterwards. She appeared in many stage productions and in beauty contests so that she can raise the money to go to Metropolitan State College.
Pam Grier got engaged to music executive called Kevin Evans but engagement ended in 1999 and since 2000-2008, he dated the marketing executive Peter Hempel. She also dated the basketball Superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the comic legend Richard Pryor and the Soul Train Don Cornelius. Even if she dated different people, none became her husband and she is yet to be married. She is not available on the social media such as Instagram but she is found on Twitter where she has over 574 thousand followers at the side. This shows how she has become popular. Her appearances in different movies made her to be successful and she has a net worth of 14.5 millions. She has the height of 1.73 meters and she still has the perfect body measurements which are 38-22-36. She keeps healthy by taking good diet and exercising.
Last Modified: Apr 7, 2020
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