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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

Pam Grier

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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