Lee Grant

Known for ActingBorn 1925-10-31 (age 100)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

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Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall

Say It, Fight It, Cure It

The Seagull

An Affair of the Skin

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

Poor Liza

People's Choice Awards

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

Calling the Shots

Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale

The World of Sholom Aleichem

The John Garfield Story

Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin

A Crime to Fit the Punishment

Mulholland Drive

The Million Dollar Face

What Are Best Friends For?

Festival

She Said No

Inside the Actors Studio

The Neon Ceiling

Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval

Battered

In the Heat of the Night

Judd, for the Defense

The Willmar 8

Nobody's Child

The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer

Mission: Impossible

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

A Matter of Sex

Truth and Lies: The Family Manson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Ransom for a Dead Man

Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties

The Omen Legacy

The Gun Deadlock

The Stronger

Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America

Baghdad ER

The Fugitive

In My Daughter's Name

Wedden, dat..?

Defending Your Life

A Billion for Boris

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Who Is Henry Jaglom?