Lee Grant
Known for: Acting
Born: October 31, 1925
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
116 movies · 39 TV shows, newest first
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Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
2026
7.9
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024
3.6
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023
6.3
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
NR
Killian & the Comeback Kids
2020
6.6
Hal
2019
4.4
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
2018
NR
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
2017
7.0
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
2017
NR
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
2014
6.5
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
7.1
Baghdad ER
2006
NR
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
20065.5
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
2006
4.4
Going Shopping
2005
6.4
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005
8.0
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003
8.4
The John Garfield Story
2003
9.4
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
7.0
The Omen Legacy
2001
7.0
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
20017.0
The Gun Deadlock
2001
7.8
Mulholland Drive
2001
4.7
The Amati Girls
2001
4.9
Dr. T & the Women
2000
6.7
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
6.0
The Loretta Claiborne Story
2000
9.0
Poor Liza
20007.0
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
199910.0
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
199910.0
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
1997
6.8
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
6.4
The Substance of Fire
1996
6.3
It's My Party
1996
7.5
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
1995
4.3
Reunion
1994
5.7
Following Her Heart
1994
NR
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
4.3
Under Heat
1994
4.4
Seasons of the Heart
1994
4.5
Intimate Portrait
1993
NR
Women on Trial
1992
6.7
Earth and the American Dream
1992
6.3
Citizen Cohn
1992
7.3
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
1992
7.0
In My Daughter's Name
1992
5.8
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
1992
6.9
Defending Your Life
1991
7.7
She Said No
1990NR
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
6.7
No Place Like Home
1989
5.2
Staying Together
1989
7.5
Battered
1989
9.0
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
6.7
Hello Actors Studio
1988
5.9
Empty Nest
1988
9.0
Calling the Shots
1988
5.5
The Big Town
1987
6.9
Down and Out in America
1986
7.4
Nobody's Child
19867.0
Wedden, dat..?
1986
5.3
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985
9.0
Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale
1985
5.3
What Sex Am I?
1985
6.9
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
5.7
Teachers
1984
7.0
A Billion for Boris
1984
7.3
A Matter of Sex
1984
6.0
When Women Kill
1983
7.0
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
5.0
Bare Essence
1982
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Plaza Suite
1982
5.5
Visiting Hours
1982
8.0
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
1982
7.0
Thou Shalt Not Kill
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
4.7
For Ladies Only
1981
7.5
The Willmar 8
1981
8.0
The Million Dollar Face
1981
5.2
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981
6.8
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
6.6
Little Miss Marker
1980
3.0
You Can't Go Home Again
1979
5.8
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
1979
6.1
Backstairs at the White House
1979
0.5
The Good Doctor
1978
5.0
The Swarm
1978
6.4
Damien - Omen II
1978
5.9
The Mafu Cage
1978
5.6
Airport '77
1977
5.0
The Spell
1977
6.0
Voyage of the Damned
1976
4.5
Perilous Voyage
1976
6.3
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
7.3
The Stronger
19765.0
Fay
1975
9.2
People's Choice Awards
1975
6.0
Shampoo
1975
10.0
The Seagull
1975
6.5
For the Use of the Hall
1975
7.0
Dinah!
1974
6.0
The Internecine Project
1974
NR
Why Me?
1974
8.0
What Are Best Friends For?
1973
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
5.0
Partners in Crime
1973
7.0
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
7.4
Ransom for a Dead Man
1972
6.5
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
4.7
Portnoy's Complaint
19725.1
Film '72
1971
6.2
Plaza Suite
1971
7.8
The Neon Ceiling
1971
6.1
Great Performances
1971
5.9
Night Slaves
1970
6.8
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
6.0
The Landlord
1970
6.0
Marooned
1969
5.1
The Big Bounce
1969
6.0
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1968
6.1
The Mod Squad
1968
7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
NR
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
6.0
Valley of the Dolls
1967
7.7
Judd, for the Defense
1967
7.7
In the Heat of the Night
1967
5.9
Divorce American Style
1967NR
Deadlock
1967
6.8
Ironside
1967
7.6
Mission: Impossible
1966
6.8
ABC Stage 67
1966
6.2
The Big Valley
1965
6.2
Peyton Place
1964
7.0
Pie in the Sky
1964
10.0
An Affair of the Skin
19638.0
Festival
19635.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
7.3
The Fugitive
1963
5.2
The Balcony
1963
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
5.9
Ben Casey
1961
6.3
The Defenders
1961
9.0
The World of Sholom Aleichem
1959
7.0
Middle of the Night
1959
5.0
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
1958
NR
Tony Awards
1956
6.0
Storm Fear
19556.3
Playwrights '56
1955
7.0
The Oscars
1953
7.0
Detective Story
1951
5.4
Studio One
1948
6.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948