Lee Grant
Lee Grant
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Grant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Ms. Hunter (voice)
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (voice)
as Winnie
as Self
as Louise
as Aunt Spendora
as Dr. Harper
as Narrator
as Countess Ekaterina
as Narrator
as Louise Bonner
as Narrator/Host
as Self
as Cora Cahn
as Amalia Stark
as Narrator
as Jane
as Self
as Self
as Narrator
as Reader (voice)
as Dora Cohn
as Narrator
as Maureen Leeds
as Carol Gertz
as Lena Foster
as D.A. Doris Cantore
as Narrator
as Marilyn Klinghoffer
as Self
as Self
as Ferguson Edwards
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Rachele Mussolini
as Dr. Donna Burke
as Sascha Harris
as Herself
as Lillian Farmer
as Norma Hubley / Muriel Tate / Karen Nash
as Deborah Ballin
as Narrator
as Maxine Lochman
as Ava Marshall
as Anne Holt
as Narrator
as Evalyna
as Mrs. Sylvia Lupowitz
as Flight Attendant (voice)
as The Judge
as Esther Jack
as Clarisse Ethridge
as Grace Coolidge
as Various Roles
as Anne MacGregor
as Ann Thorn
as Ellen
as Karen Wallace
as Marion Matchett
as Lili Rosen
as Virginia Monroe
as Self
as Felicia Karpf
as Irina Arkadina
as Fay Stewart
as Jean Robertson
as Narrator/Self
as Self
as Adele Ross
as Judge Meredith Leland
as Ellie Schuster
as Leslie Williams
as Sophie Portnoy
as Norma Hubley
as Carrie Miller
as Leslie Williams
as Irina Arkadina
as Marjorie Howard
as Mrs. Bullard
as Joyce Enders
as Celia Pruett
as Joanne
as Fritzie Braddock
as Laura
as Edwina Booker
as Self - Guest
as Miriam Polar
as Mrs. Leslie Colbert
as Dede Murphy
as Virginia Cloyd
as Self
as Francesca Kirby
as Susan Buchanan
as Laura
as Ruth
as Rosemary
as Suzy
as Stella Chernak
as Katherine McCleod
as Carmen
as Virginia Cloyd
as Millie Hallop
as Norma Burgess
as Maria Edwards
as The Goatseller / Avenging Angel
as Marilyn
as Jane (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
as Self - Presenter
as Edna
as Self
as Shoplifter
as Emily Brooks
Director
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Producer
as Executive Producer
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