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 |