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Film star Pam Grier says there's still a lack of opportunities for African-American actors in Hollywood and it's partly due to marginalized audiences.

The actress, author, and philanthropist opens up about her life, career, and Black History Month.

From the women-in-prison movies she made with producer Roger Corman in the Philippines to her extensive work for the stage to her superb title performance in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown to stints on The L Word and Smallville , Pam Grier has enjoyed a long and remarkably varied career as an actress.

"Get away from her, you bitch!" Twenty-five years ago, movie audiences cheered when intergalactic badass Ellen Ripley , encased in a powered exo-suit, went claw-to-claw against the terrifying alien queen.

In 1975, Jack Hill was on a roll. As the Josef Von Sternberg to Pam Grier 's Marlene Dietrich, the exploitation auteur had segued from the women-in-prison epics The Big Doll House and The Big Bird Cage to the blaxploitation classics Coffy and Foxy Brown .