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Lee Grant
Known for: ActingLee 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.
Filmography 48
Mulholland Drive
as Louise 
Damien - Omen II
as Ann Thorn 
Dr. T & the Women
as Dr. Harper 
In the Heat of the Night
as Mrs. Leslie Colbert 
Shampoo
as Felicia Karpf 
Defending Your Life
as Lena Foster 
Mussolini: The Untold Story
as Rachele Mussolini 
Valley of the Dolls
as Miriam Polar 
Marooned
as Celia Pruett 
Airport '77
as Karen Wallace 
Detective Story
as Shoplifter 
The Swarm
as Anne MacGregor 
The Mafu Cage
as Ellen 
Visiting Hours
as Deborah Ballin 
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Mrs. Bullard 
Voyage of the Damned
as Lili Rosen 
The Big Town
as Ferguson Edwards 
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
as Mrs. Sylvia Lupowitz 
Hal
as Self 
Little Miss Marker
as The Judge 
Teachers
as Dr. Donna Burke 
Tell Me a Riddle
as Flight Attendant (voice) 
No Place Like Home
Director 
Seasons of the Heart
Director 
The Substance of Fire
as Cora Cahn 
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
as Fritzie Braddock 
The Spell
as Marion Matchett 
Ransom for a Dead Man
as Leslie Williams 
Plaza Suite
as Norma Hubley 
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Director, Producer 
Storm Fear
as Edna 
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
as Marilyn Klinghoffer 
What Sex Am I?
as Self 
The Internecine Project
as Jean Robertson 
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
as Narrator 
Divorce American Style
as Dede Murphy 
She Said No
as D.A. Doris Cantore 
A Matter of Sex
Director 
The Balcony
as Carmen 
Nobody's Child
Director 
Down and Out in America
as Narrator (voice) 
Poor Liza
as Countess Ekaterina 
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
as Narrator 
The Big Bounce
as Joanne 