Lee Grant
Acting
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Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, 1925) 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.
Filmography
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
Killian & the Comeback Kids
2020
Hal
2019
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
2018
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
2017
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
2017
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
2014
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
2006
Going Shopping
2005
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003
The John Garfield Story
2003
The Omen Legacy
2001
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
2001
Mulholland Drive
2001
The Amati Girls
2001
Dr. T & the Women
2000
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
Poor Liza
2000
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
1999
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
The Substance of Fire
1996
It's My Party
1996
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Under Heat
1994
Intimate Portrait
1993
Women on Trial
1992
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Citizen Cohn
1992
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
1992
In My Daughter's Name
1992
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
1992
Defending Your Life
1991
She Said No
1990
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
Battered
1989
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
Hello Actors Studio
1988
Empty Nest
1988
Calling the Shots
1988
The Big Town
1987
Down and Out in America
1986
Wedden, dat..?
1986
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
What Sex Am I?
1985
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
Teachers
1984
A Billion for Boris
1984
When Women Kill
1983
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
Bare Essence
1982
Plaza Suite
1982
Visiting Hours
1982
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
1982
Thou Shalt Not Kill
1982
For Ladies Only
1981
The Willmar 8
1981
The Million Dollar Face
1981
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
Little Miss Marker
1980
You Can't Go Home Again
1979
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
1979
Backstairs at the White House
1979
The Good Doctor
1978
The Swarm
1978
Damien - Omen II
1978
The Mafu Cage
1978
Airport '77
1977
The Spell
1977
Voyage of the Damned
1976
Perilous Voyage
1976
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
Fay
1975
People's Choice Awards
1975
Shampoo
1975
The Seagull
1975
Dinah!
1974
The Internecine Project
1974
Why Me?
1974
What Are Best Friends For?
1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Partners in Crime
1973
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
Ransom for a Dead Man
1972
Portnoy's Complaint
1972
Film '72
1971
Plaza Suite
1971
The Neon Ceiling
1971
Great Performances
1971
Night Slaves
1970
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
The Landlord
1970
Marooned
1969
The Big Bounce
1969
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1968
The Mod Squad
1968
The Name of the Game
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Valley of the Dolls
1967
Judd, for the Defense
1967
In the Heat of the Night
1967
Divorce American Style
1967
Deadlock
1967
Ironside
1967
Mission: Impossible
1966
ABC Stage 67
1966
The Big Valley
1965
Peyton Place
1964
Pie in the Sky
1964
An Affair of the Skin
1963
Festival
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Fugitive
1963
The Balcony
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Ben Casey
1961
The Defenders
1961
The World of Sholom Aleichem
1959
Middle of the Night
1959
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
1958
Tony Awards
1956
Storm Fear
1955
Playwrights '56
1955
The Oscars
1953
Detective Story
1951
Studio One
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948