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