| Name | | Lee Grant | |
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| General info : | | Lee Grant (New York City, New York, USA) is an American stage, film and television actress, and film director. From 1952 through 1964 she was blacklisted from radio, film, and most television work, but continued working sporadically in the theatre during this time.
She won the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival for her role as the shoplifter in the 1951 film version of Detective Story. She won the 1964 Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance as Solange in Jean Genet's The Maids. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Karpf in Shampoo (1975). She has been nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 through 1993, winning twice. (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) | |
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| General info : | Lee Grant (New York City, New York, USA) is an American stage, film and television actress, and film director. From 1952 through 1964 she was blacklisted from radio, film, and most television work, but continued working sporadically in the theatre during this time.
She won the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival for her role as the shoplifter in the 1951 film version of Detective Story. She won the 1964 Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance as Solange in Jean Genet's The Maids. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Karpf in Shampoo (1975). She has been nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 through 1993, winning twice. (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) | ee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s in New York City, New York, U.S.) is an American Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actress and DGA Award-winning film director.
Lee Grant 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 in films. She starred in 71 TV episodes of Peyton Place (1965–1966), followed by lead roles in films such as Valley of the Dolls (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), and Shampoo (1975), for 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. Her film Down and Out in America also tied for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1986. | |
| Relations : | | Married to : Joseph Feurym. 1962 | |
| Relations : | | Married to : Arnold Manoffm. 1951 - div. 1960 | |
| Relations : | | Mother of : Dinah Manoff | |
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| Video | | Lee Grant Discusses Ida Lupino | |
| Video | | Lee Grant Interview with Bill Boggs | |
| Video | | Lee Grant Interviewed by Scott Feinberg | |
| Video | | Lee Grant on advice to an aspiring actor - TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews | |
| Video | | Lee Grant on getting cast on "Peyton Place" - TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews | |
| Video | | Lee Grant on her career's brightest and darkest moments | |
| Video | | Lee Grant on two altercations with Paul Monash on "Peyton Place" - TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews | |
| Video | | Lee Grant Salutes Sidney Poitier at AFI Life Achievement Award | |
| Video | | LEE GRANT SHARES A MYSTERIOUS COINCIDENCE | |
| Video | | Lee Grant Wins Supporting Actress: 1976 Oscars | |
| Video | | 90-Year-Old Oscar Winning Actress Lee Grant Talks About Blacklisting | |
| Video | | Actress Lee Grant Confesses Her Age And Chats About Blacklisting | |
| Video | | Interview with Lee Grant | |