Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 31, 1925
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
155 titles
Lee Grant
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
self
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Self - Actress
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Self
Killian & the Comeback Kids
Ms. Hunter (voice)
Hal
Self
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
Narrator (voice)
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
Self
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
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Baghdad ER
Executive Producer
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Miriam (archive footage)
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
Self (voice)
Going Shopping
Winnie
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Director
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
Self
The John Garfield Story
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The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Director
The Omen Legacy
Self
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Self
The Gun Deadlock
Director
Mulholland Drive
Louise
The Amati Girls
Aunt Spendora
Dr. T & the Women
Dr. Harper
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Narrator
The Loretta Claiborne Story
Director
Poor Liza
Countess Ekaterina
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
Narrator
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
Director
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
Narrator/Host
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Self
The Substance of Fire
Cora Cahn
It's My Party
Amalia Stark
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
Narrator
Reunion
Director
Following Her Heart
Director
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Under Heat
Jane
Seasons of the Heart
Director
Intimate Portrait
Self
Women on Trial
Narrator
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Citizen Cohn
Dora Cohn
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
Narrator
In My Daughter's Name
Maureen Leeds
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Carol Gertz
Defending Your Life
Lena Foster
She Said No
D.A. Doris Cantore
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Self