Lee Grant
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| Lee Grant | |
 Grant at the premiere of F.I.S.T., April 1978 |
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| Born | Lyova Haskell Rosenthal October 31, 1927 (1927-10-31) (age 81) New York City, New York, United States |
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| Years active | 1950–2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Arnold Manoff (1951-1960) Joseph Feury (1962-present) |
Lee Grant (born October 31, 1927) is an American Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated theater, film and television actress, and film director who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
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Early life
Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, the daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants Witia (née Haskell), a teacher, and Abraham W. Rosenthal, a realtor and educator.[1] Her stage name, Lee Grant, is a compilation of the two leading U.S. Civil War generals. Grant performed as a ballerina with the New York Metropolitan Opera at the age of four, and during her childhood studied dance and acting.
Career
Grant established herself as a dramatic actress on Broadway while a teenager, earning praise for her role as a shoplifter in the play Detective Story. She made her film debut in the movie version of Detective Story, receiving her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, and winning the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify against her husband, the playwright Arnold Manoff, father of her daughter, actress Dinah Manoff, Grant refused to testify and was ultimately blacklisted. She continued to work in theater and resumed her film career in the early 1960s, appearing in the television series Peyton Place as the evil Stella Chernak. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama for that role.
Grant received subsequent Academy Award nominations for The Landlord (1970), and Voyage of the Damned (1976). She won an Oscar for Shampoo (1975). She has directed several documentary films, including Down and Out in America (1986) which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In recent years she directed a series of Intimate Portrait episodes (for Lifetime Television) that celebrated a diverse range of accomplished women.
Grant appeared as a cunning lawyer/murderess on an episode of Columbo, for which she was nominated for an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie. Competing against herself, she received the award for her other Emmy-nominated performance in The Neon Ceiling. She had her own sitcom, a series entitled Fay (1975), but it was not successful. Grant was vocal in assigning blame for the failure of the series, which was about the travails of a mature, sexually active woman, which may have turned off some viewers.
Grant also guest starred on Empty Nest, a TV series in which her daughter Dinah Manoff was a regular.
Filmography
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| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
| 1951 | Detective Story | Shoplifter | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1955 | Storm Fear | Edna | |
| 1959 | Middle of the Night | Marilyn | |
| The Blue Angel | uncredited | ||
| 1963 | The Balcony | Carmen | |
| An Affair of the Skin | Katherine McCleod | ||
| 1964 | Terror in the City | Suzy | |
| 1967 | Divorce American Style | Dede Murphy | |
| In the Heat of the Night | Mrs. Leslie Colbert | Nominated - Golden Globe | |
| Valley of the Dolls | Miriam | ||
| 1968 | Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | Fritzie Braddock | |
| 1969 | The Big Bounce | Joanne | |
| Marooned | Celia Pruett | ||
| 1970 | The Landlord | Joyce Enders | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated - Golden Globe |
| There Was a Crooked Man... | Mrs. Bullard | ||
| 1971 | The Last Generation | archive footage | |
| Plaza Suite | Norma Hubley | ||
| 1972 | Portnoy's Complaint | Sophie Portnoy | |
| 1974 | The Internecine Project | Jean Robertson | |
| 1975 | Shampoo | Felicia | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1976 | Voyage of the Damned | Lillian Rosen | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated - Golden Globe |
| 1977 | Airport '77 | Karen Wallace | |
| The Spell | Marilyn Matchett | ||
| 1978 | Damien: Omen II | Ann Thorn | |
| The Swarm | Anne MacGregor | ||
| The Mafu Cage | Ellen | ||
| 1979 | When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Clarisse Ethridge | |
| 1980 | Little Miss Marker | The Judge | |
| 1981 | Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen | Mrs. Lupowitz | |
| 1982 | Visiting Hours | Deborah Ballin | |
| 1984 | Billions for Boris | Sascha Harris | |
| Constance | Mrs. Barr | ||
| Teachers | Dr. Donna Burke | ||
| 1985 | Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Herself | documentary |
| 1987 | The Big Town | Ferguson Edwards | |
| 1991 | Defending Your Life | Lena Foster | |
| 1992 | Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story | Carol Gertz | TV |
| Earth and the American Dream | Narrator | documentary | |
| 1996 | It's My Party | Amalia Stark | |
| The Substance of Fire | Cora Cahn | ||
| Under Heat | Jane | ||
| 1998 | Poor Liza | ||
| 2000 | Dr. T & the Women | Dr. Harper | |
| The Amati Girls | Aunt Spendora | ||
| 2001 | Mulholland Drive | Louise Bonner | |
| 2005 | The Needs of Kim Stanley | Herself | documentary |
| Going Shopping | Winnie | ||
| As director | ||
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| Year | Production | Other notes |
| 1975 | For the Use of the Hall | TV |
| 1976 | The Stronger | short subject |
| 1980 | Tell Me a Riddle | |
| 1981 | The Willmar 8 | documentary |
| 1984 | A Matter of Sex | TV |
| 1985 | What Sex Am I? | documentary |
| ABC Afterschool Special | Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale (TV episode) | |
| 1986 | Nobody's Child | TV - Won - DGA Award |
| Down and Out in America | documentary (also narrator) | |
| 1989 | Staying Together | |
| No Place Like Home | TV | |
| 1994 | When Women Kill | documentary |
| Seasons of the Heart | TV | |
| Following Her Heart | TV | |
| Reunion | TV | |
| 1997 | Say It, Fight It, Cure It | TV |
| 1999 | Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America | TV |
| 2000 | American Masters | Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light |
| The Loretta Claiborne Story | TV | |
| 2001 | The Gun Deadlock | TV |
| 2004 | Biography | Melanie Griffith |
| 2000-2004 | Intimate Portrait | 43 episodes |
| 2005 | ... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | TV |
References
- ^ Lee Grant biography. Film Reference.com.
External links
- Lee Grant at the Internet Movie Database
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| NAME | Grant, Lee |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenthal, Lyova Haskell |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1927-10-31 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
stock | retire | vm
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