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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).
Remake "aggiornatta" of the film that mixing blaxploitation and zombies in 1974, became a cult film. Sugar's boyfriend Langston is ordered by a thug to sell to him "Haiti" nightclub. As he refuses, he receives a fatal beating from the henchmen of the real brains behind the blackmail; the gangster Morgan and his even more aggressive, cruel and racist girlfriend, Celeste. Then Morgan pressures Sugar to give up the business, who resist and being aware that he and his lover are responsible for Lansgton's death, seeks help from Mama Maitrese, a Voodoo priestess who summons the Lord of the dead, Baron Samedi, . and Mamam Brigitt, his wife, mistress of the cycle of life and death, to revenge her boyfriend death. The different gangsters involved begin to suffer the consequences and generate to the distrust of Detective Valentine (an ex-boyfriend of Sugar). Obviously the greatest punishment is reserved for Morgan and, above all for Celeste who will be rescued from the swamp where she and her partner sink when they try to flee helplessly from the persecution of the zombies, but she discovers that the rescue is only to be taken to the underworld, as Samedi's harem slave.
