Actress and producer Kerry Washington paid homage to actress Pam Grier on her Instagram page and Twitter. The now 72-year-old actor played sexy, powerful and intelligent Black women on film and television, including the character Foxy Brown during the ’70s and ’80s. She has been credited with being one of the first Black female stars in the early 1970s Blaxploitation, action and prison films produced by New World Pictures, according to IMDb. The 1st time I saw Jackie Brown I was in delighted awe. Pam brought electric subversive complexity to that role, at time when women’s roles (especially in action movies) were either non-existent or extremely stereotypical. She’s a true 👑 and I’m so honored to celebrate her! pic.twitter.com/Vdt4FQ72Ul — kerry washington (@kerrywashington) March 1, 2022 Washington paid homage to the revered actress in a side-by-side image on Instagram . Grier sported a perfectly rounded Afro with gold hoop earrings and a floral, red button-down shirt...
