LEE GRANT

'Lee Grant' (October 31, 1927) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated American theater, film and television actress, and film director who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.

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Early life

Career

Filmography

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Early life

Grant was born 'Lyova Haskell Rosenthal' in New York City to Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
She performed as a ballerina with the New York Metropolitan Opera at the age of four, and during her childhood studied dance and acting.
She established herself as a dramatic actress on Broadway while a teenager and was praised for her role as a shoplifter in the play ''Detective Story''.
Her stage name, Lee Grant, is a compilation of the two leading U.S. Civil War generals.

Career

Grant made her film debut in the movie version of ''Detective Story'' and received her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, and won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify against her husband, the playwright Arnold Manoff, the father of her only child, her daughter, actress Dinah Manoff, Grant refused to testify and was ultimately blacklisted. She continued to work in theater and resumed her film career in the early 1960s, and also appeared in the television series ''Peyton Place'', for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama.
She received subsequent Academy Award nominations for ''The Landlord'' (1970), and ''Voyage of the Damned'' (1976). She won an Oscar for ''Shampoo'' (1975). She has also directed several documentary films, including ''Down and Out in America'' (1986) which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In recent years she has directed a series of ''Intimate Portrait'' episodes (for Lifetime Television) that celebrate a diverse range of accomplished women.
She appeared as a cunning lawyer/murderess on an episode of ''Columbo''. She also had her own sitcom, a series entitled ''Fay'' (1975), but it was not successful. Grant was vocal in assigning blame for the failure of the series, which was about the travails of a mature, sexually active woman, which may have turned off some viewers.
Grant also guest starred on ''Empty Nest'', a TV series in which her daughter Dinah Manoff was a regular.

Filmography

As Actress:

★ ''Detective Story'' (1951)

★ ''Storm Fear'' (1955)

★ ''Middle of the Night'' (1959)

★ ''The Blue Angel'' (1959)

★ ''The Balcony'' (1963)

★ ''An Affair of the Skin'' (1963)

★ ''Terror in the City'' (1964)

★ ''Divorce American Style'' (1967)

★ ''In the Heat of the Night'' (1967)

★ ''Valley of the Dolls'' (1967)

★ ''Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell'' (1968)

★ ''The Big Bounce'' (1969)

★ ''Marooned'' (1969)

★ ''The Landlord'' (1970)

★ ''There Was a Crooked Man...'' (1970)

★ ''The Last Generation'' (1971)

★ ''Plaza Suite'' (1971)

★ ''Portnoy's Complaint'' (1972)

★ ''The Internecine Project'' (1974)

★ ''Shampoo'' (1975)

★ ''Voyage of the Damned'' (1976)

★ ''Airport '77'' (1977)

★ '' (1978)

★ ''The Swarm'' (1978)

★ ''The Mafu Cage'' (1978)

★ ''When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?'' (1979)

★ ''Little Miss Marker'' (1980)

★ ''Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen'' (1981)

★ ''Visiting Hours'' (1982)

★ ''Billions for Boris'' (1984)

★ ''Constance'' (1984)

★ ''Teachers'' (1984)

★ '' (1985) (documentary)

★ ''The Big Town'' (1987)

★ ''Defending Your Life'' (1991)

★ '' (1992)

★ ''Earth and the American Dream'' (1992) (documentary) (narrator)

★ ''It's My Party'' (1996)

★ ''The Substance of Fire'' (1996)

★ ''Under Heat'' (1996)

★ ''Poor Liza'' (1998)

★ ''Dr. T & the Women'' (2000)

★ ''The Amati Girls'' (2000)

★ ''Mulholland Drive'' (2001)

★ ''The Needs of Kim Stanley'' (2005) (documentary)

★ ''Going Shopping'' (2005)
As Director:

★ ''The Stronger'' (1976) (short subject)

★ ''Tell Me a Riddle'' (1980)

★ ''The Willmar 8'' (1981) (documentary)

★ ''What Sex Am I?'' (1985) (documentary)

★ ''Down and Out in America'' (1986) (documentary) (also narrator)

★ ''Staying Together'' (1989)

★ ''When Women Kill'' (1994) (documentary)

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