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Grier was discovered by quickie director Roger Corman, who cast her in his women-in-prison pictures The Big Doll House (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972). She became a staple of the blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s, playing big, bold, buxom, and essentially interchangeable roles in such films as Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974).

With the demise of blaxploitation, Grier's career went into hiatus for some years. She worked her way into progressively larger character roles in the 1980s, including notably the stoned prostitute in Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981), a witch in Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), and Steven Seagal's detective partner in Above the Law (1988). She became a regular on the television detective series Miami ViceMiami Vice was a television series (five seasons from 1984- 1989) starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Miami policemen working undercover, James Sonny Crockett (Sonny) and Ricardo Tubbs. In the first seasons the tone was often very light, in 1984.

Grier re-achieved leading lady status in 1997 as the titular stewardess in Quentin TarantinoReservoir Dogs''. Here Tarantino's character, Mr. Brown, explains that Madonna's Like a Virgin is all about "dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick". Quentin Tarantino (born March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American screenwriter, film d's Jackie BrownJackie Brown is a 1997 motion picture, the third film directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Pam Grier and Robert Forster. Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, and Michael Keaton costar. The screenplay is based on the novel Rum Punch b, which many consider her best work so far.