Lee Grant
Acting
1925-10-31 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersDangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
2026 · Movie
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024 · Series
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023 · Movie
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021 · Movie
Killian & the Comeback Kids
2020 · Movie
Hal
2019 · Movie
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
2018 · Movie
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
2017 · Movie
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
2017 · Movie
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
2014 · Movie
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014 · Movie
Baghdad ER
2006 · Movie
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006 · Movie
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
2006 · Movie
Going Shopping
2005 · Movie
A Father… A Son… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2005 · Movie
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003 · Movie
The John Garfield Story
2003 · Movie
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Movie
The Omen Legacy
2001 · Movie
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
2001 · Movie
The Gun Deadlock
2001 · Movie
Mulholland Drive
2001 · Movie
The Amati Girls
2001 · Movie
Dr. T & the Women
2000 · Movie
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000 · Movie
The Loretta Claiborne Story
2000 · Movie
Poor Liza
2000 · Movie
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
1999 · Movie
Intimate Portrait: Lauren Bacall
1999 · Movie
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
1997 · Movie
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997 · Movie
The Substance of Fire
1996 · Movie
It's My Party
1996 · Movie
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
1995 · Movie
Reunion
1994 · Movie
Following Her Heart
1994 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
Under Heat
1994 · Movie
Seasons of the Heart
1994 · Movie
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Series
Women on Trial
1992 · Movie
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Movie
Citizen Cohn
1992 · Movie
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
1992 · Movie
In My Daughter's Name
1992 · Movie
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
1992 · Movie
Defending Your Life
1991 · Movie
She Said No
1990 · Movie
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990 · Movie
No Place Like Home
1989 · Movie
Staying Together
1989 · Movie
Battered
1989 · Movie
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989 · Movie
Hello Actors Studio
1988 · Movie
Empty Nest
1988 · Series
Calling the Shots
1988 · Movie
The Big Town
1987 · Movie
Down and Out in America
1986 · Movie
Nobody's Child
1986 · Movie
Wedden, dat..?
1986 · Series
Mussolini: The Untold Story
1985 · Series
Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale
1985 · Movie
What Sex Am I?
1985 · Movie
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985 · Series
Teachers
1984 · Movie
A Billion for Boris
1984 · Movie
A Matter of Sex
1984 · Movie
When Women Kill
1983 · Movie
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983 · Movie
Bare Essence
1982 · Series
Plaza Suite
1982 · Movie
Visiting Hours
1982 · Movie
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
1982 · Movie
Thou Shalt Not Kill
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
For Ladies Only
1981 · Movie
The Willmar 8
1981 · Movie
The Million Dollar Face
1981 · Movie
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981 · Movie
Tell Me a Riddle
1980 · Movie
Little Miss Marker
1980 · Movie
You Can't Go Home Again
1979 · Movie
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
1979 · Movie
Backstairs at the White House
1979 · Series
The Good Doctor
1978 · Movie
The Swarm
1978 · Movie
Damien - Omen II
1978 · Movie
The Mafu Cage
1978 · Movie
Airport '77
1977 · Movie
The Spell
1977 · Movie
Voyage of the Damned
1976 · Movie
Perilous Voyage
1976 · Movie
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976 · Movie
The Stronger
1976 · Movie
Fay
1975 · Series
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Series
Shampoo
1975 · Movie
The Seagull
1975 · Movie
For the Use of the Hall
1975 · Movie
Dinah!
1974 · Series
The Internecine Project
1974 · Movie
Why Me?
1974 · Movie
What Are Best Friends For?
1973 · Movie
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Series
Partners in Crime
1973 · Movie
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972 · Movie
Ransom for a Dead Man
1972 · Movie
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · Series
Portnoy's Complaint
1972 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
Plaza Suite
1971 · Movie
The Neon Ceiling
1971 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Night Slaves
1970 · Movie
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 · Movie
The Landlord
1970 · Movie
Marooned
1969 · Movie
The Big Bounce
1969 · Movie
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1968 · Movie
The Mod Squad
1968 · Series
The Name of the Game
1968 · Series
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968 · Movie
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968 · Series
Valley of the Dolls
1967 · Movie
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · Series
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Movie
Divorce American Style
1967 · Movie
Deadlock
1967 · Movie
Ironside
1967 · Series
Mission: Impossible
1966 · Series
ABC Stage 67
1966 · Series
The Big Valley
1965 · Series
Peyton Place
1964 · Series
Pie in the Sky
1964 · Movie
An Affair of the Skin
1963 · Movie
Festival
1963 · Series
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Series
The Fugitive
1963 · Series
The Balcony
1963 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
Ben Casey
1961 · Series
The Defenders
1961 · Series
The World of Sholom Aleichem
1959 · Movie
Middle of the Night
1959 · Movie
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
1958 · Movie
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Storm Fear
1955 · Movie
Playwrights '56
1955 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Detective Story
1951 · Movie
Studio One
1948 · Series
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Series