
Lee Grant
Biography
Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) 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.
Acting (94 movies)

Mulholland Drive
2001

Valley of the Dolls
1967

In the Heat of the Night
1967

Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte
2023

Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
1995

Dr. T & the Women
2000

Damien - Omen II
1978

Detective Story
1951

Shampoo
1975

Teachers
1984

Airport '77
1977

Defending Your Life
1991

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1968

There Was a Crooked Man...
1970

Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
2014

Marooned
1969

Poor Liza
2000

TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976

Plaza Suite
1971

The Landlord
1970

Little Miss Marker
1980

The Swarm
1978

Visiting Hours
1982

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981

The Spell
1977

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
1979

Storm Fear
1955

Voyage of the Damned
1976

The Internecine Project
1974

Why Me?
1974

Middle of the Night
1959

The Big Bounce
1969

The Balcony
1963

The Substance of Fire
1996

The Amati Girls
2001

You Can't Go Home Again
1979

Night Slaves
1970

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968

Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983

What Are Best Friends For?
1973

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972

Hello Actors Studio
1988

Portnoy's Complaint
1972

Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
1958

The Neon Ceiling
1971

Calling the Shots
1988

Tell Me a Riddle
1980

The Mafu Cage
1978

The Big Town
1987

The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
1992

Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
2017

A Billion for Boris
1984

For Ladies Only
1981

Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
2001

A Crime to Fit the Punishment
1982

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989

She Said No
1990

It's My Party
1996

Hal
2019

Pie in the Sky
1964

Going Shopping
2005

Ransom for a Dead Man
1972

Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
1992

Perilous Voyage
1976

The Willmar 8
1981

Plaza Suite
1982

When Women Kill
1983

What Sex Am I?
1985

Citizen Cohn
1992

Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
2018

Women on Trial
1992

An Affair of the Skin
1963

Earth and the American Dream
1992

In My Daughter's Name
1992

The John Garfield Story
2003

Divorce American Style
1967

Thou Shalt Not Kill
1982

Partners in Crime
1973

The Million Dollar Face
1981

Killian & the Comeback Kids
2020

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000

The Seagull
1975

Battered
1989

Down and Out in America
1986

Under Heat
1994

The Good Doctor
1978

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014

Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997

The World of Sholom Aleichem
1959

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021

Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006

The Omen Legacy
2001

Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
2017
Directing (25 movies)

Battered
1989

Staying Together
1989

A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005

Tell Me a Riddle
1980

No Place Like Home
1989

Nobody's Child
1986
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
1999
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
1997
The Gun Deadlock
2001

A Matter of Sex
1984

For the Use of the Hall
1975

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003

Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale
1985

Down and Out in America
1986

The Loretta Claiborne Story
2000

When Women Kill
1983

The Willmar 8
1981

What Sex Am I?
1985

Seasons of the Heart
1994

Reunion
1994

Women on Trial
1992

Following Her Heart
1994

The Stronger
1976

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
1999
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Stronger | 1976 | Writer |
| The Willmar 8 | 1981 | Writer |
| Battered | 1989 | Producer |
| Women on Trial | 1992 | Producer |
| Say It, Fight It, Cure It | 1997 | Producer |
| Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America | 1999 | Producer |
| A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | 2005 | Producer |
| Baghdad ER | 2006 | Executive Producer |