Lee Grant

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1925-10-31 (100 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Lee Grant

Biography

Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) 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 care...

Acting

2001

1967

Valley of the Dolls

as Miriam Polar

1967

In the Heat of the Night

as Mrs. Leslie Colbert

2000

Dr. T & the Women

as Dr. Harper

1978

Damien - Omen II

as Ann Thorn

1951

Detective Story

as Shoplifter

1975

Shampoo

as Felicia Karpf

1984

Teachers

as Dr. Donna Burke

1977

Airport '77

as Karen Wallace

1991

Defending Your Life

as Lena Foster

1968

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

as Fritzie Braddock

1970

1969

Marooned

as Celia Pruett

2000

Poor Liza

as Countess Ekaterina

1971

Plaza Suite

as Norma Hubley

1970

The Landlord

as Joyce Enders

1980

Little Miss Marker

as The Judge

1978

The Swarm

as Anne MacGregor

1982

Visiting Hours

as Deborah Ballin

1977

The Spell

as Marion Matchett

1979

1955

Storm Fear

as Edna

1976

1974

The Internecine Project

as Jean Robertson

1974

Why Me?

as Narrator/Self

1959

1969

1963

The Balcony

as Carmen

1996

2001

The Amati Girls

as Aunt Spendora

1979

1970

Night Slaves

as Marjorie Howard

1983

1972

1972

Portnoy's Complaint

as Sophie Portnoy

1967

Deadlock

as Virginia Cloyd

1958

Three Plays by Tennessee Williams

as Jane (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")

1971

The Neon Ceiling

as Carrie Miller

1997

1980

Tell Me a Riddle

as Flight Attendant (voice)

1978

1987

The Big Town

as Ferguson Edwards

1984

A Billion for Boris

as Sascha Harris

1981

For Ladies Only

as Anne Holt

1989

1990

She Said No

as D.A. Doris Cantore

2006

1996

It's My Party

as Amalia Stark

2019

Hal

as Self

1999

Mulholland Dr.

as Louise Bonner (uncredited)

1964

2005

1972

Ransom for a Dead Man

as Leslie Williams

1976

Perilous Voyage

as Virginia Monroe

1981

The Willmar 8

as Narrator

1982

Plaza Suite

as Norma Hubley / Muriel Tate / Karen Nash

1983

When Women Kill

as Herself

1985

1992

Citizen Cohn

as Dora Cohn

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2018

1992

Women on Trial

as Narrator

1963

An Affair of the Skin

as Katherine McCleod

1992

1992

In My Daughter's Name

as Maureen Leeds

1967

1982

Thou Shalt Not Kill

as Maxine Lochman

1973

Partners in Crime

as Judge Meredith Leland

2020

Killian & the Comeback Kids

as Ms. Hunter (voice)

1975

The Seagull

as Irina Arkadina

1989

Battered

as Narrator

1986

Down and Out in America

as Narrator (voice)

1994

Under Heat

as Jane

1978

The Good Doctor

as Various Roles

1959

The World of Sholom Aleichem

as The Goatseller / Avenging Angel

2001

Production

1989

Battered

as Director

1989

Battered

as Producer

1989

Staying Together

as Director

1980

Tell Me a Riddle

as Director

1989

1986

Nobody's Child

as Director

2006

Baghdad ER

as Executive Producer

1981

The Willmar 8

as Writer

2001

The Gun Deadlock

as Director

1984

A Matter of Sex

as Director

1976

The Stronger

as Writer

1983

When Women Kill

as Director

1981

The Willmar 8

as Director

1985

What Sex Am I?

as Director

1994

1994

Reunion

as Director

1992

Women on Trial

as Director

1992

Women on Trial

as Producer

1994

1976

The Stronger

as Director

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