Biography
Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress and director. She made her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. This role earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1952 she was blacklisted from most acting jobs for the next 12 years. She was able to find only occasional work onstage or as a teacher during this period. It also contributed to her divorce. She was removed from the blacklist in 1962 and rebuilt her acting career. She starred in 71 TV episodes of Peyton Place (1965–1966), followed by lead roles in films such as Valley of the Dolls, In the Heat of the Night (both 1967), and Shampoo (1975), for the last of which she won an Oscar. In 1964, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance in The Maids. During her career she was nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 and 1993, winning twice.
In 1986 she directed Down and Out in America which tied for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and in the same year she also won a Directors Guild of America Award for Nobody's Child.
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Filmography
all 147
Movies 115
TV Shows 32
self 29
Director 19
Narrator 7
Voice 2
Producer 1
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte (2023)
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021)
Killian & the Comeback Kids (2020)
Hal (2019)
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018)
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct (2017)
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson (2017)
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors (2014)
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Baghdad ER (2006)
Tribute To Burgess Meredith (2006)
Going Shopping (2005)
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2005)
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin (2003)
America Undercover (2003)
The John Garfield Story (2003)
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series (2003)
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties (2001)
The Gun Deadlock (2001)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Amati Girls (2001)
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000)
The Loretta Claiborne Story (2000)
Poor Liza (2000)
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America (1999)
Mulholland Dr. (1999)
Say It, Fight It, Cure It (1997)
Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997)
The Substance of Fire (1996)
It's My Party (1996)
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (1995)
Reunion (1994)
Following Her Heart (1994)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Under Heat (1994)
Seasons of the Heart (1994)
Intimate Portrait (1993)
Women on Trial (1992)
Earth and the American Dream (1992)
Citizen Cohn (1992)
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer (1992)
In My Daughter's Name (1992)
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992)
Defending Your Life (1991)
She Said No (1990)
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1990)
No Place Like Home (1989)
Battered (1989)
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
Staying Together (1989)
Hello Actors Studio (1988)
Empty Nest (1988)
Calling the Shots (1988)
The Big Town (1987)
Down and Out in America (1986)
American Masters (1986)
Nobody's Child (1986)
Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale (1985)
What Sex Am I? (1985)
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985)
Teachers (1984)
A Billion for Boris (1984)
A Matter of Sex (1984)
When Women Kill (1983)
Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
Bare Essence (1982)
Plaza Suite (1982)
Visiting Hours (1982)
A Crime to Fit the Punishment (1982)
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982)
For Ladies Only (1981)
The Willmar 8 (1981)
The Million Dollar Face (1981)
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Tell Me a Riddle (1980)
Little Miss Marker (1980)
You Can't Go Home Again (1979)
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979)
Backstairs at the White House (1979)
The Good Doctor (1978)
The Swarm (1978)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
The Mafu Cage (1978)
Airport '77 (1977)
The Spell (1977)
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
Perilous Voyage (1976)
TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976)
The Stronger (1976)
Fay (1975)
Shampoo (1975)
The Seagull (1975)
For the Use of the Hall (1975)
The Internecine Project (1974)
Why Me? (1974)
What Are Best Friends For? (1973)
The American Film Institute Salute to ... (1973)
Partners in Crime (1973)
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife (1972)
Ransom for a Dead Man (1972)
ABC Afterschool Special (1972)
Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
Plaza Suite (1971)
The Neon Ceiling (1971)
Great Performances (1971)
Night Slaves (1970)
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
The Landlord (1970)
Marooned (1969)
The Big Bounce (1969)
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
The Mod Squad (1968)
The Name of the Game (1968)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski (1968)
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
Judd for the Defense (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Divorce American Style (1967)
Deadlock (1967)
Ironside (1967)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
ABC Stage 67 (1966)
The Big Valley (1965)
Peyton Place (1964)
Pie in the Sky (1964)
An Affair of the Skin (1963)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
The Fugitive (1963)
The Balcony (1963)
Ben Casey (1961)
The Defenders (1961)
Great Ghost Tales (1961)
The World of Sholom Aleichem (1959)
Middle of the Night (1959)
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams (1958)
Tony Awards (1956)
Storm Fear (1955)
Playwrights '56 (1955)
The Oscars (1953)
Detective Story (1951)
Studio One (1948)
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1925-10-31 (98 years old)
Birth PlaceManhattan, United States of America
RelationshipsArnold Manoff (1951-01-01 - 1960-01-01)
ChildrenDinah Manoff
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known As李·格兰特, Lyova Haskell Rosenthal
AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Crystal Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
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