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Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, [ 2 ] 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 .
Pryor met actress Pam Grier through comedian Freddie Prinze. They began dating when they were both cast in Greased Lightning (1977). [56] Grier helped Pryor learn to read and tried to help him with his drug addiction. [57] Pryor married another woman while dating Grier. [25] Pryor dated actress Margot Kidder during the filming of Some Kind of ...
John Carson (1974–2016; his death) (2 children) Pamela Greer (born 7 March 1941) [ 1 ] is a British actress, who is best known for her roles on television during the 1960s. [ 2 ] In 1966, she changed her name to Luanshya Greer (taken from the name of the town where she was born) [ 3 ] and became a writer for TV shows including Dixon of Dock ...
Grier had her sights set on attending one of L.A.'s two premiere film institutions, UCLA and USC — whose respective alums from that period include Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Schrader, George ...
Grier likes to say that she "fell on my face" into acting as a way to raise tuition money. "I wore a plaid shirt and boots from Sears — I looked very, very country," she says of her earliest ...
Pam Grier is bringing her story to Hollywood. The 74-year-old actress, who first came to fame starring in 1970s Blaxploitation films, is developing her 2010 memoir, “Foxy: My Life in Three Acts ...
Prinze had been romantically linked to actresses Raquel Welch [6] and Pam Grier, whom he met in 1973. [7] Grier recalls their relationship in chapter nineteen of her memoir, My Life in Three Acts. [8] After his break-up with Grier, Prinze dated actress Lonette McKee for a time during 1976. [9] Prinze also dated Joanna Kerns a short time before ...
Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) [1] is an American actress. She made her film debut in My Bodyguard (1980), before receiving critical acclaim for her performance as Alexandra Owens in Flashdance (1983), for which she won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.