{"id":2329720,"date":"2026-03-15T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2329720"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:33:43","slug":"judy-pace-blaxploitation-star-and-brians-song-actress-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/judy-pace-blaxploitation-star-and-brians-song-actress-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Pace, Blaxploitation Star and \u2018Brian\u2019s Song\u2019 Actress, Dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Judy Pace<\/a>, who has best known for her work in several Blaxploitation films including \u201cThe Slams\u201d and \u201cCotton Comes to Harlem<\/a>,\u201d died Wednesday. She was 83.<\/p>\n

Pace<\/a>\u2019s death was confirmed to media by her daughters Shawn and Julia Pace Mitchell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pace\u2019s career also included roles on \u201cBatman<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBewitched<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDays of Our Lives<\/a>\u201d and more. She played Linda Sayers, the wife of Gale Sayers<\/a>, in \u201cBrian\u2019s Song<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her entry into cinema was intentional, she told Roger Ebert<\/a>. Pace set up a five year plan for making the jump. \u201cI figured if I didn\u2019t make it by then, I\u2019d quit wasting my time,\u201d she explained. \u201cI spent two years studying,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judy Pace, who has best known for her work in several Blaxploitation films including \u201cThe Slams\u201d and \u201cCotton Comes to Harlem,\u201d died Wednesday. She was 83. Pace\u2019s death was confirmed to media by her daughters Shawn and Julia Pace Mitchell. Pace\u2019s career also included roles on \u201cBatman,\u201d \u201cBewitched,\u201d \u201cDays of Our Lives\u201d and more. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2329721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2329720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Judy-Pace-Blaxploitation-Star-and-\u2018Brians-Song-Actress-Dies-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329722,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329720\/revisions\/2329722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}