Lee Grant
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.
135 acting credits · 27 directing credits
Acting · 135
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Fugitive
1963
Ironside
1967
Mission: Impossible
1966
Great Performances
1971
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Tony Awards
1956
Ben Casey
1961
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Big Valley
1965
Studio One
1948
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Name of the Game
1968
The Defenders
1961
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Oscars
1953
People's Choice Awards
1975
Empty Nest
1988
Dinah!
1974
The Mod Squad
1968
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Film '72
1971
Mulholland Drive
2001
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
Festival
1963
ABC Stage 67
1966
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Playwrights '56
1955
Wedden, dat..?
1986
In the Heat of the Night
1967
Airport '77
1977
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
Backstairs at the White House
1979
Defending Your Life
1991
Damien - Omen II
1978
Fay
1975
Shampoo
1975
The Swarm
1978
The Mafu Cage
1978
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Marooned
1969
Dr. T & the Women
2000
Valley of the Dolls
1967
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
The Big Town
1987
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981
Teachers
1984
Voyage of the Damned
1976
Middle of the Night
1959
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
The Landlord
1970
It's My Party
1996
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
1992
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Visiting Hours
1982
Peyton Place
1964
Hal
2019
Bare Essence
1982
Detective Story
1951
Hello Actors Studio
1988
Citizen Cohn
1992
Divorce American Style
1967
The Spell
1977
Deadlock
1967
The Substance of Fire
1996
Plaza Suite
1971
Little Miss Marker
1980
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
The Internecine Project
1974
Going Shopping
2005
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1968
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
The John Garfield Story
2003
In My Daughter's Name
1992
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
2017
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
Portnoy's Complaint
1972
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
1979
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
1995
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
1992
Ransom for a Dead Man
1972
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006
Storm Fear
1955
The World of Sholom Aleichem
1959
Perilous Voyage
1976
The Amati Girls
2001
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
The Balcony
1963
You Can't Go Home Again
1979
The Big Bounce
1969
Thou Shalt Not Kill
1982
The Good Doctor
1978
The Neon Ceiling
1971
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
An Affair of the Skin
1963
A Billion for Boris
1984
The Omen Legacy
2001
Down and Out in America
1986
The Seagull
1975
Partners in Crime
1973
Pie in the Sky
1964
Night Slaves
1970
Calling the Shots
1988
The Million Dollar Face
1981
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
For Ladies Only
1981
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968
She Said No
1990
Plaza Suite
1982
Poor Liza
2000
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
2006
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
1958
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
2001
What Are Best Friends For?
1973
Under Heat
1994
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
2018
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
2014
Why Me?
1974
The Willmar 8
1981
What Sex Am I?
1985
When Women Kill
1983
Killian & the Comeback Kids
2020
Women on Trial
1992
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
1999
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
2017
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
1982
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
1997
Battered
1989
Directing · 27
Intimate Portrait
1993
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Staying Together
1989
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005
Seasons of the Heart
1994
Nobody's Child
1986
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
Reunion
1994
The Loretta Claiborne Story
2000
No Place Like Home
1989
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale
1985
Down and Out in America
1986
For the Use of the Hall
1975
A Matter of Sex
1984
The Gun Deadlock
2001
The Stronger
1976
Following Her Heart
1994
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
1999
The Willmar 8
1981
What Sex Am I?
1985
When Women Kill
1983
Women on Trial
1992
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
1999
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
1997
Battered
1989