Pam Grier played a good girl for six seasons as Kit Porter on The L Word, but she’s about to go very, very bad.
The actress has signed on for a multi-episode turn as political operative Agent Amanda Waller on Smallville, according to EW’s Michael Ausiello.
Waller, a.k.a. “The Wall” is an iconic DC Comics villain who led the Suicide Squad, often manipulating it to her own ends. Read more about Waller’s origins and history in the DC database. And if you’re into superheroes on TV, check out b5media’s own Superhero Profiles blog for the latest on Smallville and other shows.
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After the L Word’s final season bowed this year, Pam Grier has been hanging at her Colorado farm and filming movies in New York.
While she worked on a new project co-starring Phylicia Rashad and rapper Common (we’re guessing it’s the romantic comedy Just Wright, even though she’s not on the credits list yet), Grier also took some time to sample the cuisine at the hot NYC restaurant DBGB.
As Food & Wine editor Kate Krader puts it, Grier is “a passionate foodie who keeps up with the New York restaurant scene from her Colorado horse farm” by reading New York Magazine and The …read more

Pam Grier, who kicks ass on The L Word nearly as hard as she did back in her days as blaxploitation icon Foxy Brown, has inked a deal with a major publisher to release her memoir.
The as-yet-untitled book will delve into her multi-decade acting career and allow Grier to reflect on the guys she’s dated, including Richard Pryor and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the co-stars with whom she’s shared the spotlight, such as Robert DeNiro and Samuel L. Jackson.
The book, released under Grand Central Publishing’s Springboard imprint, is expected to drop in 2010.