Pam Grier

Pam Grier

Actor (b. 1949)
21
Movies
70.0%
Avg ThumbScore
Thriller
Top Genre

Audiences rate Pam Grier’s films lower than 64% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

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Frequent Collaborators

John Carpenter (2)Tom Hanks (2)RZA (2)Samuel L. Jackson (1)Robert De Niro (1)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Pam Grier (70.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 21 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Pam's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. Described by director Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, 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. Her accolades include nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Satellite Award, and a Saturn Award. Grier came to prominence with her titular roles in the films Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974); her other major films during this period included The Big Doll House (1971), Women in Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), Black Mama, White Mama (1973), Scream Blacula Scream (1973), The Arena (1974), Sheba, Baby (1975), Bucktown (1975), and Friday Foster (1975). She portrayed the title character in Quentin Tarantino's crime film Jackie Brown (1997), and also appeared in Escape from L.A. (1996), Jawbreaker (1999), Holy Smoke!, (1999), Bones (2001), Just Wright (2010), Larry Crowne (2011), and Poms (2019). On television, Grier portrayed Eleanor Winthrop in the Showtime comedy-drama series Linc's (1998–2000), Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004–2009), and Constance Terry in the ABC sitcom Bless This Mess (2019–2020). She received praise for her work in the animated series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1999).

Born 1949-05-26 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.

On ThumbScore, Pam Grier appears in 21 films with an average audience score of 70.0%, most frequently in the Thriller genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Pam Grier movie, ranked by audience score

Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown
1997
👍 86%
Black Mama, White Mama
Black Mama, White Mama
1973
👍 80%
Above the Law
Above the Law
1988
👍 79%
Jawbreaker
Jawbreaker
1999
👍 78%
Coffy
Coffy
1973
👍 75%
Foxy Brown
Foxy Brown
1974
👍 75%
Just Wright
Just Wright
2010
👍 73%
Escape from L.A.
Escape from L.A.
1996
👍 72%
Fort Apache, the Bronx
Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981
👍 72%
Ghosts of Mars
Ghosts of Mars
2001
👍 71%
Cleveland Abduction
Cleveland Abduction
2015
👍 71%
The Package
The Package
1989
👍 69%
Class of 1999
Class of 1999
1990
👍 69%
Larry Crowne
Larry Crowne
2011
👍 68%
In Too Deep
In Too Deep
1999
👍 68%
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991
👍 63%
The Man with the Iron Fists
The Man with the Iron Fists
2012
👍 63%
Snow Day
Snow Day
2000
👍 62%
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
2023
👍 60%
Bones
Bones
2001
👍 60%
Fortress 2
Fortress 2
2000
👍 57%