Lee Grant
Acting
- Born:
- 1925-10-31
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, 1925) 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.
Known For
Filmography
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Killian & the Comeback Kids
Hal
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
Going Shopping
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
The John Garfield Story
The Omen Legacy
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Mulholland Drive
The Amati Girls
Dr. T & the Women
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Poor Liza
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
The Substance of Fire
It's My Party
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
Inside the Actors Studio
Under Heat
Intimate Portrait
Women on Trial
Earth and the American Dream
Citizen Cohn
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
In My Daughter's Name
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Defending Your Life
She Said No
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Battered
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Hello Actors Studio
Empty Nest
Calling the Shots
The Big Town
Down and Out in America
Wedden, dat..?
Mussolini: The Untold Story
What Sex Am I?
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Teachers
A Billion for Boris
When Women Kill
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Bare Essence
Plaza Suite
Visiting Hours
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
Thou Shalt Not Kill
For Ladies Only
The Willmar 8
The Million Dollar Face
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Tell Me a Riddle
Little Miss Marker
You Can't Go Home Again
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
Backstairs at the White House
The Good Doctor
The Swarm
Damien - Omen II
The Mafu Cage
Airport '77
The Spell
Voyage of the Damned
Perilous Voyage
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Fay
People's Choice Awards
Shampoo
The Seagull
Dinah!
The Internecine Project
Why Me?
What Are Best Friends For?
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Partners in Crime
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
Ransom for a Dead Man
Portnoy's Complaint
Film '72
Plaza Suite
The Neon Ceiling
Great Performances
Night Slaves
There Was a Crooked Man...
The Landlord
Marooned
The Big Bounce
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
The Mod Squad
The Name of the Game
The Dick Cavett Show
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Valley of the Dolls
Judd, for the Defense
In the Heat of the Night
Divorce American Style
Deadlock
Ironside
Mission: Impossible
ABC Stage 67
The Big Valley
Peyton Place
Pie in the Sky
An Affair of the Skin
Festival
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Fugitive
The Balcony
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Ben Casey
The Defenders
The World of Sholom Aleichem
Middle of the Night
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
Tony Awards
Storm Fear
Playwrights '56
The Oscars
Detective Story
Studio One
The Philco Television Playhouse