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
Baghdad ER
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
Going Shopping
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
The John Garfield Story
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
The Omen Legacy
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
The Gun Deadlock
Mulholland Drive
The Amati Girls
Dr. T & the Women
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
The Loretta Claiborne Story
Poor Liza
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
The Substance of Fire
It's My Party
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
Reunion
Following Her Heart
Inside the Actors Studio
Under Heat
Seasons of the Heart
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
No Place Like Home
Staying Together
Battered
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Hello Actors Studio
Empty Nest
Calling the Shots
The Big Town
Down and Out in America
Nobody's Child