Pam Grier

 Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels) and a nurse as well as Clarence Ransom Grier Jr. is an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American actress since the early 1970s. Roger Corman of New World Pictures introduced her to The Big Doll House (1971) that was about an institution for women. The film also included The Big Bird Cage (1972). Her strong role put her into a five-year contract with Samuel Z. Arkoff of American-International Pictures, and she became a leading lady in action films such as Jack Hill's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), the comic strip character Friday Foster (1975) and William Girdler's 'Sheba, Baby' (1975). She continued working with American-International, where she portrayed William Marshall's vampire victim in the Blacula (1972) sequel, Scream Blacula Scream (1973).During the 1980s she became a regular on 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), then returned to action as Steven Seagal's partner in Above the Law (1988). Her most famous role of the 1990s was Jackie Brown (1997), directed by Quentin Tarantino, which was an homage to her previous 1970s action roles, she also played supporting roles, as in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996), In Too Deep (1999) as well as Jawbreaker (1999). She also appeared in John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) and co-starred with Snoop Dogg in Bones alongside Snoop Dogg (2001). The gorgeous talented actress has enjoyed great success in her 30 years of career.