Age: 77
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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).
Pam Grier
Beverly Jones
for Beverly Jones in Spring-Heeled Jack : Fallen Monster Hunter (1980)
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley
Years ago, Leroy Jackson was the greatest monster hunter of Prodigium, the organization battling the forces of evil all over the Earth and run by the Van Helsing family. If Gabriel knows so much and fights so well, it's largely thanks to Leroy. However, one day, in the middle of a mission, he was disfigured and mutilated, losing a good part of his mental health. However, he escaped from the hospital where he was interned, designed himself superb mortal metal prostheses to replace his legs, as well as a mask to breathe well despite the state of his lungs, and armed in consequence. Judging the light responsible for his condition, and especially for the fact of having done nothing to come to his aid despite his good records of service, Jackson decided to fight for the darkness, making a name for himself by becoming an important kingpin of supernatural crime of New York. He became : Spring-Heeled Jack !
