Pam Grier - Famous Voice Actor

Pam Grier Net Worth

$4,000,000

Pam Grier has a net worth of $4 million, achieved through her successful career as an American actress throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Widely known for her roles in women in prison and blaxploitation films, Grier made a groundbreaking comeback in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Jackie Brown’, becoming iconic for her female action star performances.

Key facts:

  • Pam Grier is an American actress who gained fame in the early 197s through moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films.
  • Grier appeared in many stage productions during her high school years in Denver and participated in beauty contests to raise money for her tuition at Metropolitan State College.
  • Quentin Tarantino believed that Grier may have been cinema's first-ever female action star, and she made a comeback in his 1997 film 'Jackie Brown,' which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
  • Grier portrayed Kate 'Kit' Porter in the television series 'The L Word' for six seasons and is widely considered synonymous with blaxploitation heroines.
  • Following blaxploitation's decline, she appeared in other action and crime films such as 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', 'Above the Law', and 'The Package'.

Basic Information About Pam Grier

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor, Voice Actor
Net worth$4,000,000
Date of birth1949-05-26 (75 years old)
Place of birthWinston-Salem
NationalityUnited States of America
GenderFemale
Height5 ft 7 in (1.727 m)
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

What Movie Awards did Pam Grier win?


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Pam Grier awards

Award Name State Movie / Series Name Year
Actor - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading RoleNomineeJackie Brown1998
Felix - Best ActressWinnerJackie Brown2018
Saturn Award - Best ActressNomineeJackie Brown1998
ACCA - Best Actress in a Leading RoleNomineeJackie Brown1997
Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or MusicalNomineeJackie Brown1998
Image Award - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Motion PictureNomineeJackie Brown1998
OFTA Film Award - Best Drama ActressNomineeJackie Brown1998
SDFCS Award - Best ActressWinnerJackie Brown1997
Golden Satellite Award - Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or MusicalNomineeJackie Brown1998
EDA Special Mention Award - Actress Most in Need of a New AgentNomineePoms2020
Image Award - Outstanding Actress in a Motion PictureNomineeAbove the Law1988
Image Award - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama SeriesNomineeLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit2003
Image Award - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama SeriesNomineeThe L Word2006
Image Award - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama SeriesNomineeThe L Word2005
Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Performer in an Animated ProgramNomineeHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child2000

Pam Grier roles

Movie / Series Role
Escape from L.A.Hershe Las Palmas
Mars Attacks!Louise Williams
Larry CrowneFrances
Jackie BrownJackie Brown
The Man with the Iron FistsJane
Bill & Ted's Bogus JourneyMs. Wardroe
Ghosts of MarsCommander Helena Braddock
JawbreakerDetective Vera Cruz
PomsOlive
Class of 1999Ms. Connors
Above the LawDelores 'Jacks' Jackson
Undercover BrotherSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
Beyond the Valley of the DollsFourth Woman (as Pamela Grier)
The AllnighterSgt. McLeesh
The Big Bird CageBlossom
The ArenaMamawi
Foxy BrownFoxy Brown
Something Wicked This Way ComesDust Witch
CoffyCoffy
Skin: A History of Nudity in the MoviesSelf: Interviewee
Snow DayTina
Holy SmokeCarol
The Big Doll HouseGrear
The PackageRuth Butler
Just WrightJanice Wright
The Adventures of Pluto NashFlura Nash
This Is UsGrandma 2 episodes, 2018-2019
The Cosby ShowSamantha 1 episode, 1987
Law & Order: Special Victims UnitClaudia Williams 2 episodes, 2002-2003
Night CourtBenet Collins 3 episodes, 1986-1989
The L WordKit Porter 70 episodes, 2004-2009
SmallvilleAmanda Waller 3 episodes, 2010
In Living Color1 episode, 1994
For Your LoveBrenda 1 episode, 1999
The Fresh Prince of Bel-AirJanice Robertson 1 episode, 1994
The Love BoatCynthia Wilbur 2 episodes, 1980
The TalkSelf 1 episode, 2020
Justice LeagueMy'ria'h 2 episodes, 2002
The Daily ShowSelf - Guest 1 episode, 1998
Miami ViceValerie Gordon 3 episodes, 1985-1989
The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSelf - Guest 1 episode, 1997
MartinSelf 1 episode, 1995
Bless This MessConstance 26 episodes, 2019-2020
The Oprah Winfrey ShowSelf - Guest 1 episode, 2011
Pinky and the BrainJulie Auburn 1 episode, 1998
Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest 2 episodes, 1998

Pam Grier's Movie/Shows Salary

Movie / Series Salary
The Big Doll HouseΒ (1971)$500 /week

Pam Grier's Quotes

  • [1/7/06, interview in the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution"] I can't talk about myself. I just can't. I know I've influenced people, and I'm proud of that. But as I see it, I really haven't done anything. I haven't saved anybody from a burning building. Foxy Brown actually approached me at the start of her career to ask if she could use the name. I told her, "You didn't need to ask". If you're an independent woman, every woman is Foxy Brown.
  • Film and television is the bulk of my work. I get my personal fulfillment from theater; plays are where you can take chances and really work with the moment. Movies and TV just aren't like that.
  • People see me as a strong black figure, and I'm proud of that, but I'm a mix of several races: Hispanic, Chinese, Filipino. My dad was black, and my mom was Cheyenne Indian. So you look at things beyond just race, or even religion: I was raised Catholic, baptized a Methodist, and almost married a Muslim.
  • (On the emotional back-story of how she landed Mars Attacks! (1996)) I was familiar with the comic book, and Tim Burton had called me to audition, but one of my dogs was dying of cancer, so I wasn't in the frame of mind to audition to do that role. So I said, "I can't," and I turned down Tim Burton. And I remember one of my dearest friends who I knew before he became an actor - Michael Keaton, who was in Beetlejuice (1988) and should've won an Oscar for that role, he was so brilliant - I told him that I'd turned Tim down. I said, "I'm just not ready to read, because one of my dogs, one of my family members, is very ill. I just can't do it. So I passed."But they called back again, and they said, "Well, would you put something on camera?" And I said, "No, because what I'll put on camera is sadness, and I'm not ready to do that right now." I'm one of those people who can afford to say "no." Even to Tim Burton, as badly as I wanted to work with him because of Beetlejuice. And he related. He respected that.And then they called back again...and they said, "Well, you've just auditioned. Because in the story, she's a mom who protects her children. Even under the worst situations, she won't leave her children. She's a true mom." And I wouldn't leave my dog, not for anybody - including Tim Burton - or for a huge salary or to work with Jack Nicholson or Glenn Close or the rest of the stellar cast of that film. So he said, "You passed the audition. You wouldn't leave your family for me, so you've got it. And we'll shoot around you. We'll wait, and you let us know when the time is right, when you're ready to shoot." And I said, "Thank you, but it could be awhile. I don't know. But I'm not leaving his side, because I had cancer, and he was with me."But they waited. They shot around me until I was ready to say, "Okay, he's passed on. He let me go." And Tim and I have been great friends ever since...because I said "no." Sometimes you just have to say "no." But once I was in it, it was such a joy working in those scenes, and with Ray Jay and Brandon. And it was great to work with James Brown. We had scenes, too. It's amazing when you work on films of such stellar directors, you know the budgets are gonna be incredible and the sets are gonna be incredible. There's no expense spared. It's just gonna be fabulous. When you work with directors like that, on that level, you go, "Oh, my God, just enjoy it!" Because you know it's just going to be a superb experience. And not only did I learn a lot about myself, but I learned that I want to work with Tim Burton in anything. He's just a very special person.
  • When I was a young girl, I never thought of acting. I never thought of television, of fans, movie stars, signing autographs. It never crossed my mind.

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Interesting Facts about Pam Grier

  1. Auditioned for a part in Pulp Fiction (1994) and at the time, right after Rosanna Arquette took the nod, was considered for the part of Bonnie (Jimmie's wife). She didn't land either role. Then Jackie Brown (1997) came along. Quentin Tarantino renamed the character of Jackie Burke from "Rum Punch" to "Jackie Brown" as an homage to Foxy Brown (1974).
  2. While a student at UCLA, she sang back-up for singer-composer Bobby Womack. Interestingly, Womack's composition and 1972 recording of the song "Across 110th Street" was the theme song of the film Jackie Brown (1997), which marked a major comeback for Grier in the starring and title role. She was nominated for a Golden Globe and an NAACP Image Award for her performance.
  3. Was the first black woman to appear on the cover of MS. Magazine (August 1975 issue).
  4. Named as one of Ebony Magazine's "100 Most Fascinating Women of the 20th Century".
  5. Awarded a "Career Achievement Award" at the 34th Annual Chicago International Film Festival. [October 1998]
  6. Her early films such as Women in Cages (1971) and The Big Doll House (1971) were filmed in the Philippines. While there she contracted a deadly tropical disease and nearly died. She lost her hair and was temporarily blind for almost a month. It took nearly a year for her to recover.
  7. Graduated from East High School, Denver, Colorado.
  8. When she met her boyfriend they found out they both grew up in Denver, Colorado. Upon further conversation she found out that he grew up in her house, after her family moved out.
  9. Profiled in "Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture" by Yvonne D. Sims (McFarland, 2006).
  10. Cousin of Roosevelt Grier.
  11. Sister of Rodney Grier and Gina Grier-Townsie.
  12. Inducted into the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum Hall of Fame in 2012-2013.
  13. Pam was born on exactly the same day as co star Philip Michael Thomas, May 26, 1949.
  14. She was considered for Matron "Mama" Morton in Chicago (2002).
  15. She is the first actress to play the DC Comics character Amanda Waller in a live-action adaptation.

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