Voluptuous African-American leading lady and second lead of the 1970s and 80s who primarily appeared in low-budget exploitation and Blaxploitation movies. Grier burst on the scene as one of a bevy of sexy inmates harassed by a sadistic prison warden in The Big Doll House (1971). She followed with starring roles in a slew of Black-oriented action pictures that juxtaposed her apparent femininity with an extremely violent streak in flicks like Hit Man (1972), Sheba Baby (1975), Bucktown (1975), and a female version of The Defiant Ones called Black Mama, White Mama (1972).
In a bit of a switch, Grier played the victimizer in Women in Cages (1972), a sadistic lesbian prison guard who tortures her charges. Her biggest hits of the 1970s, Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), cast her as a sexy nurse who goes after the junkies who turned her sister into an addict, and the drug ring that killed her lover.
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