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Blaxploitation was one of the first film categories to have female leads portray brave, heroic, active protagonists. Actresses such as Pam Grier in Coffy and Gloria Hendry in Black Belt Jones opened the door for actresses to become action stars which inspired later films such as Kill Bill and Set It Off.
Carolyn Ann Stewart (March 14, 1945 – January 14, 2022), known professionally as Carol Speed, was an American actress, singer-songwriter and author. [1] [2] [3] Speed was best known for her roles in films during the 1970s blaxploitation era, [4] most notably starring as Abby Williams in the American International Pictures 1974 blaxploitation horror film Abby (1974).
Tamara Janice Dobson (May 14, 1947 – October 2, 2006) was an American actress and fashion model.Beginning her career in modeling during the late 1960s, Dobson became best known for her title role as government agent Cleopatra "Cleo" Jones in the 1973 blaxploitation film Cleopatra Jones and its 1975 sequel Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.
Lawrenc, Novotny (2007). Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre (Studies in African American History and Culture). NY: Routledge; 1 edition.
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.
Never confirmed, but often reported: Melvin Van Peebles' blaxploitation classic about a male sex worker on the run from corrupt police featured many sex scenes, and some of them, the story goes ...
Gloria Hendry (born March 3, 1949) [5] [6] is an American actress and former model. [7] Hendry is best known for her roles in films from the 1970s, most notably: portraying Rosie Carver in 1973's James Bond film Live and Let Die; [7] and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film Black Caesar, [7] and the sequel, Hell Up in Harlem.
She created many popular characters on “MADtv” such as the blaxploitation actress Cocoa Latette, Tovah McQueen and the fast-speaking Bunifa Latifah Halifah Sharifa Jackson. After leaving the ...