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