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A Heroine In More Ways Than One

Grier is also known for being a bad you-know-what in action films. In fact, she is ranked as the second greatest female action heroine in film history, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Quentin Tarantino has gone on record to say that she may have been the industry’s first female action hero.

In 1997, she starred in Tarantino’s film Jackie Brown, which of course, was not her first Tarantino movie. For this role, she won quite a few awards. She wrote her memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, with Andrea Kagan in 2010. Grier currently lives in Colorado. She is 67.