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