Pam Grier

Pam Grier is a renowned and award-winning actress. Her career started in 1971 with Jack Hill’s, The Big Doll House (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972). Some of her leading role credits from the 1970s include Coffy (1973), Foxy Brown (1974) and Friday Foster (1975). During the 1980s she appeared in Miami Vice (1984) and played a supporting role as an evil witch in Ray Bradbury's and Walt Disney Pictures' Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) before returning to action as Steven Seagal's partner in Above the Law (1988). One of her most notable roles of the 1990s was Jackie Brown (1997), directed by Quentin Tarantino, which was an homage to her earlier 1970s action roles. Some of her most recent credits include, Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996), In Too Deep (1999), Jawbreaker (1999), Ghosts of Mars (2001), Bones (2001), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002), The L Word (2004), Smallville (2010), Poms (2019), Bless this Mess (2019), Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023), Them (2024), and High Horse: The Black Cowboy (2025).