1925-10-31 New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Hal | Self | 2019-03-28 | |
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And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | |
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women | Self | 2014-08-10 | |
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors | 2014-12-31 | ||
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The John Garfield Story | Self | 2003-02-03 | |
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties | Self | 2001-09-04 | |
Mulholland Drive | Louise | 2001-06-06 | |
The Amati Girls | Aunt Spendora | 2001-01-09 | |
Dr. T & the Women | Dr. Harper | 2000-09-13 | |
Poor Liza | Countess Ekaterina | 2000-01-01 | |
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Mulholland Dr. | Louise Bonner | 1999-01-01 | |
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America | Narrator | 1999-04-01 | |
Who Is Henry Jaglom? | Self | 1997-07-08 | |
Say It, Fight It, Cure It | Narrator/Host | 1997-10-05 | |
It's My Party | Amalia Stark | 1996-03-22 | |
The Substance of Fire | Cora Cahn | 1996-09-11 | |
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval | Narrator | 1995-11-29 | |
Under Heat | Jane | 1994-06-01 | |
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In My Daughter's Name | Maureen Leeds | 1992-05-10 | |
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Citizen Cohn | Dora Cohn | 1992-08-22 | |
Women on Trial | Narrator | 1992-10-27 | |
Defending Your Life | Lena Foster | 1991-03-22 | |
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Self | 1990-08-27 | |
She Said No | D.A. Doris Cantore | 1990-09-23 | |
Battered | Narrator | 1989-09-12 | |
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro | Marilyn Klinghoffer | 1989-02-13 | |
Calling the Shots | Self | 1988-09-08 | |
Hello Actors Studio | Self | 1988-11-09 | |
The Big Town | Ferguson Edwards | 1987-09-25 | |
Down and Out in America | Narrator (voice) | 1986-12-01 | |
What Sex Am I? | Self | 1985-10-01 | |
A Billion for Boris | Sascha Harris | 1984-01-01 | |
Teachers | Dr. Donna Burke | 1984-10-05 | |
When Women Kill | Herself | 1983-09-06 | |
Will There Really Be a Morning? | Lillian Farmer | 1983-02-22 | |
Thou Shalt Not Kill | Maxine Lochman | 1982-04-12 | |
A Crime to Fit the Punishment | Narrator | 1982-05-01 | |
Bare Essence | Ava Marshall | 1982-10-04 | |
Plaza Suite | Norma Hubley / Muriel Tate / Karen Nash | 1982-05-23 | |
Visiting Hours | Deborah Ballin | 1982-05-21 | |
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen | Mrs. Sylvia Lupowitz | 1981-02-13 | |
The Million Dollar Face | Evalyna | 1981-03-12 | |
The Willmar 8 | Narrator | 1981-04-21 | |
For Ladies Only | Anne Holt | 1981-11-09 | |
Tell Me a Riddle | Flight Attendant (voice) | 1980-12-15 | |
Little Miss Marker | The Judge | 1980-03-21 | |
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Clarisse Ethridge | 1979-02-09 | |
You Can't Go Home Again | Esther Jack | 1979-04-25 | |
The Swarm | Anne MacGregor | 1978-07-14 | |
Damien: Omen II | Ann Thorn | 1978-06-09 | |
The Good Doctor | Various Roles | 1978-11-08 | |
The Mafu Cage | Ellen | 1978-03-19 | |
The Spell | Marilyn Matchett | 1977-02-20 | |
Airport '77 | Karen Wallace | 1977-03-11 | |
TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self | 1976-03-30 | |
Voyage of the Damned | Lili Rosen | 1976-12-22 | |
Perilous Voyage | Virginia Monroe | 1976-06-29 | |
The Seagull | Irina Arkadina | 1975-01-05 | |
Shampoo | Felicia Karpf | 1975-02-11 | |
The Internecine Project | Jean Robertson | 1974-07-24 | |
Why Me? | Narrator/Self | 1974-05-13 | |
What Are Best Friends For? | Adele Ross | 1973-12-18 | |
Partners in Crime | Judge Meredith Leland | 1973-03-24 | |
Ransom for a Dead Man | Leslie Williams | 1972-10-09 | |
Portnoy's Complaint | Sophie Portnoy | 1972-06-19 | |
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife | Ellie Schuster | 1972-10-11 | |
The Neon Ceiling | Carrie Miller | 1971-02-08 | |
Plaza Suite | Norma Hubley | 1971-05-12 | |
Night Slaves | Marjorie Howard | 1970-09-29 | |
There Was a Crooked Man... | Mrs. Bullard | 1970-09-18 | |
The Landlord | Joyce Enders | 1970-05-20 | |
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The Big Bounce | Joanne | 1969-03-05 | |
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | Fritzie Braddock | 1968-10-23 | |
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski | Laura | 1968-05-10 | |
Valley of the Dolls | Miriam Polar | 1967-12-27 | |
Deadlock | Virginia Cloyd | 1967-05-17 | |
Divorce American Style | Dede Murphy | 1967-06-21 | |
In the Heat of the Night | Mrs. Leslie Colbert | 1967-08-02 | |
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