Lee Grant

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: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1925-10-31

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Detective Story	Shoplifter	70
2	1955	Storm Fear	Edna	60
3	1958	Three Plays by Tennessee Williams	Jane (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")	50
4	1959	Middle of the Night	Marilyn	70
5	1959	The World of Sholom Aleichem	The Goatseller / Avenging Angel	0
6	1963	The Balcony	Carmen	52
7	1963	An Affair of the Skin	Katherine McCleod	0
8	1964	Pie in the Sky	Suzy	0
9	1967	Deadlock	Virginia Cloyd	0
10	1967	Divorce American Style	Dede Murphy	58
11	1967	In the Heat of the Night	Mrs. Leslie Colbert	76
12	1967	Valley of the Dolls	Miriam Polar	60
13	1968	The Love Song of Barney Kempinski	Laura	0
14	1968	Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell	Fritzie Braddock	60
15	1969	The Big Bounce	Joanne	52
16	1969	Marooned	Celia Pruett	59
17	1970	The Landlord	Joyce Enders	59
18	1970	There Was a Crooked Man...	Mrs. Bullard	68
19	1970	Night Slaves	Marjorie Howard	63
20	1971	The Neon Ceiling	Carrie Miller	77
21	1971	Plaza Suite	Norma Hubley	61
22	1972	Portnoy's Complaint	Sophie Portnoy	45
23	1972	Ransom for a Dead Man	Leslie Williams	72
24	1972	Lieutenant Schuster's Wife	Ellie Schuster	0
25	1973	Partners in Crime	Judge Meredith Leland	20
26	1973	What Are Best Friends For?	Adele Ross	0
27	1974	Why Me?	Narrator/Self	0
28	1974	The Internecine Project	Jean Robertson	60
29	1975	The Seagull	Irina Arkadina	0
30	1975	Shampoo	Felicia Karpf	60
31	1976	TVTV Looks at the Oscars	Self	60
32	1976	Perilous Voyage	Virginia Monroe	0
33	1976	Voyage of the Damned	Lili Rosen	59
34	1977	The Spell	Marion Matchett	50
35	1977	Airport '77	Karen Wallace	56
36	1978	The Mafu Cage	Ellen	61
37	1978	Damien - Omen II	Ann Thorn	64
38	1978	The Swarm	Anne MacGregor	49
39	1978	The Good Doctor	Various Roles	5
40	1979	When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?	Clarisse Ethridge	62
41	1979	You Can't Go Home Again	Esther Jack	10
42	1980	Little Miss Marker	The Judge	65
43	1980	Tell Me a Riddle	Flight Attendant (voice)	60
44	1981	Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen	Mrs. Sylvia Lupowitz	50
45	1981	The Million Dollar Face	Evalyna	0
46	1981	The Willmar 8	Narrator	60
47	1981	For Ladies Only	Anne Holt	40
48	1982	Thou Shalt Not Kill	Maxine Lochman	65
49	1982	A Crime to Fit the Punishment	Narrator	0
50	1982	Visiting Hours	Deborah Ballin	55
51	1982	Plaza Suite	Norma Hubley / Muriel Tate / Karen Nash	0
52	1983	Will There Really Be a Morning?	Lillian Farmer	70
53	1983	When Women Kill	Herself	60
54	1984	A Billion for Boris	Sascha Harris	60
55	1984	Teachers	Dr. Donna Burke	56
56	1985	What Sex Am I?	Self	56
57	1986	Down and Out in America	Narrator (voice)	67
58	1987	The Big Town	Ferguson Edwards	55
59	1988	Calling the Shots	Self	0
60	1988	Hello Actors Studio	Self	60
61	1989	The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro	Marilyn Klinghoffer	0
62	1989	Battered	Narrator	0
63	1990	Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret	Self	0
64	1990	She Said No	D.A. Doris Cantore	80
65	1991	Defending Your Life	Lena Foster	69
66	1992	Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story	Carol Gertz	58
67	1992	In My Daughter's Name	Maureen Leeds	63
68	1992	The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer	Narrator	72
69	1992	Citizen Cohn	Dora Cohn	63
70	1992	Earth and the American Dream	Reader (voice)	67
71	1992	Women on Trial	Narrator	0
72	1994	Under Heat	Jane	40
73	1995	Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval	Narrator	70
74	1996	It's My Party	Amalia Stark	63
75	1996	The Substance of Fire	Cora Cahn	72
76	1997	Who Is Henry Jaglom?	Self	66
77	1997	Say It, Fight It, Cure It	Narrator/Host	0
78	1999	Mulholland Dr.	Louise Bonner (uncredited)	78
79	1999	Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America	Narrator	0
80	2000	Poor Liza	Countess Ekaterina	0
81	2000	Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light	Narrator	60
82	2000	Dr. T & the Women	Dr. Harper	49
83	2001	The Amati Girls	Aunt Spendora	25
84	2001	Mulholland Drive	Louise	78
85	2001	Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties	Self	0
86	2001	The Omen Legacy	Self	70
87	2003	The John Garfield Story	Self	80
88	2003	Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin	Self	0
89	2005	Going Shopping	Winnie	37
90	2006	Tribute To Burgess Meredith	Self (voice)	60
91	2006	Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'	Miriam (archive footage)	0
92	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
93	2014	Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women	Self	65
94	2014	Actresses Turned Producer/Directors		0
95	2017	Seeing is Believing: Women Direct	Self	0
96	2018	Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor	Narrator (voice)	52
97	2019	Hal	Self	65
98	2020	Killian & the Comeback Kids	Ms. Hunter (voice)	0
99	2021	Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster	Self	70
100	2023	Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte	Self	90

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1948	Studio One	Emily Brooks	50
3	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
4	1955	Playwrights '56		60
5	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
6	1961	The Defenders	Norma Burgess	62
7	1961	The Defenders	Maria Edwards	62
8	1961	Ben Casey		56
9	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
10	1963	The Fugitive	Millie Hallop	72
11	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Virginia Cloyd	57
12	1964	Peyton Place	Stella Chernak	66
13	1965	The Big Valley	Rosemary	61
14	1966	ABC Stage 67	Laura	62
15	1966	ABC Stage 67	Ruth	62
16	1966	Mission: Impossible	Susan Buchanan	76
17	1967	Ironside	Francesca Kirby	68
18	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
19	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self	65
20	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
21	1968	The Name of the Game	Edwina Booker	68
22	1968	The Mod Squad		63
23	1971	Great Performances	Irina Arkadina	53
24	1971	Great Performances		53
25	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
26	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
27	1975	Fay	Fay Stewart	50
28	1979	Backstairs at the White House	Grace Coolidge	59
29	1982	Bare Essence	Ava Marshall	0
30	1985	The Ray Bradbury Theater		69
31	1985	Mussolini: The Untold Story	Rachele Mussolini	53
32	1986	Wedden, dat..?	Self	80
33	1988	Empty Nest		58
34	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45
35	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	75

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