
Lee Grant
Biography
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.

She Said No
1990

The John Garfield Story
2003

Mulholland Drive
2001

The Neon Ceiling
1971

In the Heat of the Night
1967

Battered
1989

The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
1992

Ransom for a Dead Man
1972

The Substance of Fire
1996

Detective Story
1951

Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
1995

Middle of the Night
1959

Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021

The Omen Legacy
2001

Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
2017

Defending Your Life
1991

There Was a Crooked Man...
1970

Earth and the American Dream
1992

Down and Out in America
1986