Pam Grier – 71 – $10 MILLION

Pam Grier, American actress, was born on May 26, 1949 in Winston-Salem. She is the recipient of many accolades, including 20/20 Award for Best Actress. Besides, she also has many nominations for NAACP Image Awards. If there’s one actress known for portraying bad women in blaxploitation films in the ’70s, then we give the credit to Pam Grier. These films include Foxy Brown and Coffy.

Grier, though she hasn’t retired from the show business, left a legacy in Hollywood as the cinema’s first female action star. And it was the renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino who labeled her that. Now in her 70s, Grier had been through rough patches in her life. She was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1988 and is currently on treatment. She still appears on screen occasionally and we hope she recuperates soon. Grier has never married.