Lee Grant
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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Known for
Great Performances
Irina Arkadina
Great Performances
The Philco Television Playhouse
Studio One
Emily Brooks
Mission: Impossible
Susan Buchanan
Ben Casey
The Big Valley
Rosemary
Ironside
Francesca Kirby
Empty Nest
Intimate Portrait
Self
The Name of the Game
Edwina Booker
The Fugitive
Millie Hallop
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
The Mod Squad
The Defenders
Norma Burgess
The Defenders
Maria Edwards
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
Judd for the Defense
Dinah!
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Oscars
Self
ABC Stage 67
Laura
ABC Stage 67
Ruth
Wedden, dat..?
Self
Mulholland Drive
Louise
Playwrights '56
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Rachele Mussolini
Backstairs at the White House
Grace Coolidge
Peyton Place
Stella Chernak
Bare Essence
Ava Marshall
In the Heat of the Night
Mrs. Leslie Colbert
Fay
Fay Stewart
Damien - Omen II
Ann Thorn
Airport '77
Karen Wallace
Defending Your Life
Lena Foster
The Mafu Cage
Ellen
Shampoo
Felicia Karpf
There Was a Crooked Man...
Mrs. Bullard
Valley of the Dolls
Miriam Polar
The Swarm
Anne MacGregor
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Mrs. Sylvia Lupowitz
Dr. T & the Women
Dr. Harper
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
Detective Story
Shoplifter
Voyage of the Damned
Lili Rosen
Marooned
Celia Pruett
Teachers
Dr. Donna Burke
Little Miss Marker
The Judge
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Self
Mulholland Dr.
Louise Bonner (uncredited)
Divorce American Style
Dede Murphy
Visiting Hours
Deborah Ballin
In My Daughter's Name
Maureen Leeds
The Big Town
Ferguson Edwards
Hal
Self
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
Carol Gertz
Ransom for a Dead Man
Leslie Williams
Night Slaves
Marjorie Howard
It's My Party
Amalia Stark
The Landlord
Joyce Enders
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
Fritzie Braddock
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Marilyn Klinghoffer
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Self
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Narrator
The Substance of Fire
Cora Cahn
Citizen Cohn
Dora Cohn
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
Clarisse Ethridge
You Can't Go Home Again
Esther Jack
The Internecine Project
Jean Robertson
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
Narrator
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Lillian Farmer
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Plaza Suite
Norma Hubley
The Amati Girls
Aunt Spendora
She Said No
D.A. Doris Cantore
Perilous Voyage
Virginia Monroe
Hello Actors Studio
Self
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Maxine Lochman
Calling the Shots
Self
The Big Bounce
Joanne
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Self
The Spell
Marion Matchett
Middle of the Night
Marilyn
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
Narrator (voice)
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Self
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
Narrator
The Balcony
Carmen
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
Self
For Ladies Only
Anne Holt
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
Narrator
Going Shopping
Winnie
The Good Doctor
Various Roles
The John Garfield Story
Self
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Miriam (archive footage)
The Neon Ceiling
Carrie Miller
The Seagull
Irina Arkadina
Portnoy's Complaint
Sophie Portnoy
Storm Fear
Edna
What Are Best Friends For?
Adele Ross
What Sex Am I?
Self
The Million Dollar Face
Evalyna
Under Heat
Jane
Deadlock
Virginia Cloyd
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
Ellie Schuster
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Self
A Billion for Boris
Sascha Harris
The World of Sholom Aleichem
The Goatseller / Avenging Angel
Down and Out in America
Narrator (voice)
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
Narrator
Poor Liza
Countess Ekaterina
Tell Me a Riddle
Flight Attendant (voice)
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Laura
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
Self
An Affair of the Skin
Katherine McCleod
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
Jane (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
The Willmar 8
Narrator
Partners in Crime
Judge Meredith Leland
When Women Kill
Herself
Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
Self
Plaza Suite
Norma Hubley / Muriel Tate / Karen Nash
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
Self (voice)
Pie in the Sky
Suzy
Battered
Narrator
Killian & the Comeback Kids
Ms. Hunter (voice)
Women on Trial
Narrator
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
Narrator/Host
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Why Me?
Narrator/Self
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Virginia Cloyd
Inside the Actors Studio
Self