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Pamela Suzette "Pam" Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She became famous in the early 1970s after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films like ''The Big Bird Cage'' (1972), ''Coffy'' (1973), ''Foxy Brown'' (1974) and ''Sheba Baby'' (1975). Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film ''Jackie Brown'', for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG Award as well as a Satellite Award for her performance in ''Jackie Brown''. Grier is also known for her work on television, for 6 seasons she portrayed Kate 'Kit' Porter on the television series ''The L Word''. She received an Emmy Award nomination for her work in the animated program ''Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child''. Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second greatest female action heroine in film history. Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinema's first female action star. She played the manipulative Amanda Waller, head of the Checkmate organisation, in the longrunning TV series, "Smallville". ==Early life== Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gwendolyn Sylvia (née Samuels), a homemaker and nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier, Jr., who worked as a mechanic and Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force. She has one sister and one brother. Grier has stated that she is of mixed ancestry consisting of African-American, Hispanic, Chinese, Filipino and Cheyenne Indian heritage. At age 6, Grier was raped by two boys when she was left unattended at her aunt's house. "It took so long to deal with the pain of that," she says, "You try to deal with it, but you never really get over it," she adds. "And not just me; my family endured so much guilt and anger that something like that happened to me."〔 Because of her father's military career, her family moved frequently during her childhood, to various places such as England, and eventually settled in Denver, where she attended East High School. While in Denver she appeared in a number of stage productions, and participated in beauty contests to raise money for college tuition at Metropolitan State College. Grier is the cousin of All-Pro Los Angeles Rams National Football League player Rosey Grier.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pam Grier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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