Lee Grant
Acting
Born 1925-10-31
New York City, New York, USA
155 credits
Academy Awards 1
Primetime Emmy Awards 2
Crystal Award 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won · 3 nominated
- 1977 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Voyage of the Damned
- 1976 Best Supporting Actress Won Shampoo
- 1971 Best Supporting Actress Nominated The Landlord
- 1952 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Detective Story
Primetime Emmy Awards 2 won
- 1971 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won
- 1966 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Won Peyton Place
Crystal Award 1 won
- 1988 Crystal Award Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
51 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Fugitive
Ironside
Mission: Impossible
Great Performances
Tony Awards
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Dick Cavett Show
The Big Valley
People's Choice Awards
Intimate Portrait
The Defenders
Studio One
The Oscars
Film '72
The Name of the Game
Mulholland Drive
Dinah!
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Festival
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Damien - Omen II
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
ABC Stage 67
In the Heat of the Night
Airport '77
The Swarm
Wedden, dat..?
Defending Your Life
Dr. T & the Women
Backstairs at the White House
Shampoo
Voyage of the Damned
Valley of the Dolls
Mussolini: The Untold Story
The Big Town
Poor Liza
Bare Essence
It's My Party
Teachers
Visiting Hours
There Was a Crooked Man...
Marooned
Fay
Middle of the Night
Detective Story
Little Miss Marker
Earth and the American Dream
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Plaza Suite
Other credits
7 credits
The Philco Television Playhouse
Ben Casey
Empty Nest
The Ray Bradbury Theater
The Mod Squad
Judd, for the Defense
Playwrights '56
Directing
3 credits
Writing
1 credit
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