Lee Grant
- Acting
- October 31, 1925 · 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 · Self
- Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War · Self
- 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 · Self
- Baghdad ER · Executive producer
- Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls' · Miriam (archive footage)
- Tribute To Burgess Meredith · Self
- Going Shopping · Winnie
- A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · Director, Producer
- Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin · Self
- The John Garfield Story · Self
- 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, Director
- The Loretta Claiborne Story · Director
- Poor Liza · Countess Ekaterina
- Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America · Narrator, Director
- Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall · Director
- Say It, Fight It, Cure It · Narrator/Host, Director
- 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, Director
- Women on Trial · Narrator, Producer
- 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
- No Place Like Home · Director
- Staying Together · Director
- Battered · Narrator, Director
- The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro · Marilyn Klinghoffer
- Hello Actors Studio · Self
- Empty Nest
- Calling the Shots · Self
- The Big Town · Ferguson Edwards
- Down and Out in America · Narrator (Voice), Director
- Nobody's Child · Director
- Wedden, dat..? · Self
- Mussolini: The Untold Story · Rachele Mussolini
- Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale · Director
- What Sex Am I? · Self, Director
- The Ray Bradbury Theater
- Teachers · Dr. Donna Burke
- A Billion for Boris · Sascha Harris
- A Matter of Sex · Director
- When Women Kill · Self, Director
- Will There Really Be a Morning? · Lillian Farmer
- Bare Essence · Ava Marshall
- Plaza Suite · Norma Hubley / Muriel Tate / Karen Nash
- Visiting Hours · Deborah Ballin
- A Crime to Fit the Punishment · Narrator
- Thou Shalt Not Kill · Maxine Lochman
- American Playhouse · Director
- For Ladies Only · Anne Holt
- The Willmar 8 · Narrator, Writer
- The Million Dollar Face · Evalyna
- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen · Mrs. Sylvia Lupowitz