 For six seasons, Grier portrayed Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime television series "The L Word," which ran from 2004 until 2009.She received an Emmy nomination for her work in the animated program "".Grier was born on May 26, 1949, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gwendolyn Sylvia (née Samuels), a homemaker and nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier, Jr., who worked as a mechanic and technical sergeant in the United States Air Force.