Pam Grier
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"Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier" is an American actress. She became famous in the early 1970s after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison films/women in prison and blaxploitation films like The Big Bird Cage (1972), Coffy (1973), Foxy Brown (film)/Foxy Brown (1974) and Sheba Baby (1975). Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown (film)/Jackie Brown, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy/Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award/SAG Award as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in Jackie Brown. Grier is also known for her work on television, for 6 seasons she portrayed Kate 'Kit' Porter on the television series The L Word. She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in the animated program Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child. Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second greatest female action heroine in film history. Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinema's first female action star.

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Yeah, but people aren't comfortable with a woman who looks very masculine or rides a motorcycle or wears leather or has facial hair or has short hair.

Well who's black and what is a black person?

I like to do all kinds of films.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.