Lee Grant
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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.
Known for
Credits
Mulholland Drive (2001)
as Louise
Detective Story (1951)
as Shoplifter
Damien - Omen II (1978)
as Ann Thorn
Visiting Hours (1982)
as Deborah Ballin
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
as Mrs. Leslie Colbert
Under Heat (1994)
as Jane
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
as Lili Rosen
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
as Dr. Harper
It's My Party (1996)
as Amalia Stark
Airport '77 (1977)
as Karen Wallace
Defending Your Life (1991)
as Lena Foster
Shampoo (1975)
as Felicia Karpf
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
as Miriam Polar
Middle of the Night (1959)
as Marilyn
Poor Liza (2000)
as Countess Ekaterina
The Mafu Cage (1978)
as Ellen
The Swarm (1978)
as Anne MacGregor
Hello Actors Studio (1988)
as Self
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
as Mrs. Sylvia Lupowitz
Little Miss Marker (1980)
as The Judge
Marooned (1969)
as Celia Pruett
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky (2026)
as Self
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
as Fritzie Braddock
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife (1972)
as Ellie Schuster
The Big Town (1987)
as Ferguson Edwards
The Internecine Project (1974)
as Jean Robertson
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
as Mrs. Bullard
Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997)
as Self
Why Me? (1974)
as Narrator (voice)
Teachers (1984)
as Dr. Donna Burke
Plaza Suite (1982)
as Norma Hubley / Muriel Tate / Karen Nash
She Said No (1990)
as D.A. Doris Cantore
The Substance of Fire (1996)
as Cora Cahn
What Sex Am I? (1985)
as Self
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light (2000)
as Narrator
For Ladies Only (1981)
as Anne Holt
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors (2014)
Actor
Divorce American Style (1967)
as Dede Murphy
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021)
as Self
Hal (2019)
as Self
Earth and the American Dream (1992)
as Reader (voice)
The Good Doctor (1978)
as Various Roles
The Landlord (1970)
as Joyce Enders
Plaza Suite (1971)
as Norma Hubley
Ransom for a Dead Man (1972)
as Leslie Williams
What Are Best Friends For? (1973)
as Adele Ross
The Spell (1977)
as Marion Matchett
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992)
as Carol Gertz
TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976)
as Self
Tell Me a Riddle (1980)
as Flight Attendant (voice)
The John Garfield Story (2003)
as Self
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams (1958)
as Jane (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
In My Daughter's Name (1992)
as Maureen Leeds
Citizen Cohn (1992)
as Dora Cohn
You Can't Go Home Again (1979)
as Esther Jack
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1990)
as Self
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski (1968)
as Laura
A Billion for Boris (1984)
as Sascha Harris
Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
as Lillian Farmer
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood (2023)
as Self
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
as Marilyn Klinghoffer
Pie in the Sky (1964)
as Suzy
Down and Out in America (1986)
as Narrator (voice)
Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
as Sophie Portnoy
Storm Fear (1955)
as Edna
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls' (2006)
as Miriam (archive footage)
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)
as Self
The Balcony (1963)
as Carmen
Deadlock (1967)
as Virginia Cloyd
Going Shopping (2005)
as Winnie
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct (2017)
as Self
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979)
as Clarisse Ethridge
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (1995)
as Narrator
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties (2001)
as Self
When Women Kill (1983)
as Herself
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018)
as Narrator (voice)
The Big Bounce (1969)
as Joanne
A Crime to Fit the Punishment (1982)
as Narrator
The World of Sholom Aleichem (1959)
as The Goatseller / Avenging Angel
The Seagull (1975)
as Irina Arkadina
The Million Dollar Face (1981)
as Evalyna
Night Slaves (1970)
as Marjorie Howard
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer (1992)
as Narrator
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin (2003)
as Self
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson (2017)
Actor
An Affair of the Skin (1963)
as Katherine McCleod
Calling the Shots (1988)
as Self
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America (1999)
as Narrator
The Amati Girls (2001)
as Aunt Spendora
Perilous Voyage (1976)
as Virginia Monroe
The Neon Ceiling (1971)
as Carrie Miller
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982)
as Maxine Lochman
The Omen Legacy (2001)
as Self
Tribute To Burgess Meredith (2006)
as Self (voice)
Killian & the Comeback Kids (2020)
as Ms. Hunter (voice)
Partners in Crime (1973)
as Judge Meredith Leland
Say It, Fight It, Cure It (1997)
as Narrator/Host
Battered (1989)
as Narrator
The Willmar 8 (1981)
as Narrator
Women on Trial (1992)
as Narrator