Cast
Lee Grant
Acting
Cast
Lee Grant
Known for
Acting
Born
1925-10-31
From
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Lyova Haskell Rosenthal
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.
★7.8
MOVIE2001
Mulholland Drive
as Louise
★9.0
MOVIE2000
Poor Liza
as Countess Ekaterina
★7.7
MOVIE1967
In the Heat of the Night
as Mrs. Leslie Colbert
★6.4
MOVIE1978
Damien - Omen II
as Ann Thorn
★6.6
MOVIE1980
Little Miss Marker
as The Judge
★6.0
MOVIE1976
Voyage of the Damned
as Lili Rosen
★6.9
MOVIE1991
Defending Your Life
as Lena Foster
★5.6
MOVIE1977
Airport '77
as Karen Wallace
★4.9
MOVIE2000
Dr. T & the Women
as Dr. Harper
★6.0
MOVIE1967
Valley of the Dolls
as Miriam Polar
MOVIE1974
Why Me?
as Narrator/Self
★6.8
MOVIE1970
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Mrs. Bullard
★5.5
MOVIE1982
Visiting Hours
as Deborah Ballin
★5.1
MOVIE1978
The Swarm
as Anne MacGregor
★7.0
MOVIE1959
Middle of the Night
as Marilyn
★5.9
MOVIE1967
Divorce American Style
as Dede Murphy
★5.9
MOVIE1978
The Mafu Cage
as Ellen
★6.0
MOVIE1975
Shampoo
as Felicia Karpf
★6.0
MOVIE1974
The Internecine Project
as Jean Robertson
★6.8
MOVIE1980
Tell Me a Riddle
as Flight Attendant (voice)
★5.5
MOVIE1987
The Big Town
as Ferguson Edwards
★7.1
MOVIE1951
Detective Story
as Shoplifter
★6.8
MOVIE1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1969
Marooned
as Celia Pruett
★6.2
MOVIE1996
It's My Party
as Amalia Stark
★5.7
MOVIE1984
Teachers
as Dr. Donna Burke
★6.4
MOVIE1996
The Substance of Fire
as Cora Cahn
★6.0
MOVIE1968
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
as Fritzie Braddock
★5.2
MOVIE1981
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
as Mrs. Sylvia Lupowitz
★6.0
MOVIE1970
The Landlord
as Joyce Enders
★7.0
MOVIE1972
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
as Ellie Schuster
★5.8
MOVIE1992
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
as Carol Gertz
★6.7
MOVIE1992
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE2000
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
as Narrator
★7.7
MOVIE1990
She Said No
as D.A. Doris Cantore
★4.3
MOVIE1994
Under Heat
as Jane
★6.7
MOVIE1988
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
★5.1
MOVIE1969
The Big Bounce
as Joanne
★6.3
MOVIE2021
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE1977
The Spell
as Marion Matchett
★8.4
MOVIE2003
The John Garfield Story
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1992
Citizen Cohn
as Dora Cohn
★5.2
MOVIE1963
The Balcony
as Carmen
★7.0
MOVIE1992
In My Daughter's Name
as Maureen Leeds
★7.4
MOVIE1972
Ransom for a Dead Man
as Leslie Williams
★4.4
MOVIE2005
Going Shopping
as Winnie
★7.0
MOVIE1984
A Billion for Boris
as Sascha Harris
★4.7
MOVIE2001
The Amati Girls
as Aunt Spendora
MOVIE1982
Plaza Suite
as Norma Hubley / Muriel Tate / Karen Nash
★8.0
MOVIE1981
The Million Dollar Face
as Evalyna
★6.0
MOVIE1955
Storm Fear
as Edna
★6.2
MOVIE1971
Plaza Suite
as Norma Hubley
MOVIE1990
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
★6.6
MOVIE2019
Hal
as Self
★0.5
MOVIE1978
The Good Doctor
as Various Roles
★6.3
MOVIE1976
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
as Self
★4.7
MOVIE1972
Portnoy's Complaint
as Sophie Portnoy
★7.3
MOVIE1992
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer
as Narrator
★3.0
MOVIE1979
You Can't Go Home Again
as Esther Jack
★9.0
MOVIE1959
The World of Sholom Aleichem
as The Goatseller / Avenging Angel
★4.7
MOVIE1981
For Ladies Only
as Anne Holt
★6.9
MOVIE1986
Down and Out in America
as Narrator (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2006
Tribute To Burgess Meredith
as Self (voice)
★5.0
MOVIE1973
Partners in Crime
as Judge Meredith Leland
★10.0
MOVIE1997
Say It, Fight It, Cure It
as Narrator/Host
★10.0
MOVIE1975
The Seagull
as Irina Arkadina
★5.8
MOVIE1979
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
as Clarisse Ethridge
★9.0
MOVIE1988
Calling the Shots
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2001
The Omen Legacy
as Self
MOVIE2014
Actresses Turned Producer/Directors
★7.0
MOVIE2017
Truth and Lies: The Family Manson
★5.9
MOVIE1970
Night Slaves
as Marjorie Howard
★7.0
MOVIE1983
Will There Really Be a Morning?
as Lillian Farmer
★7.8
MOVIE1971
The Neon Ceiling
as Carrie Miller
MOVIE1968
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Laura
★5.0
MOVIE1958
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
as Jane (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
★6.5
MOVIE2014
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1963
An Affair of the Skin
as Katherine McCleod
★9.0
MOVIE1989
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
as Marilyn Klinghoffer
★4.8
MOVIE1985
What Sex Am I?
as Self
★4.4
MOVIE2018
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
as Narrator (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1982
Thou Shalt Not Kill
as Maxine Lochman
★7.5
MOVIE1995
Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE1964
Pie in the Sky
as Suzy
★8.0
MOVIE1973
What Are Best Friends For?
as Adele Ross
★6.0
MOVIE1983
When Women Kill
as Herself
MOVIE2020
Killian & the Comeback Kids
as Ms. Hunter (voice)
MOVIE2006
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
as Miriam (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1999
Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
as Narrator
MOVIE1992
Women on Trial
as Narrator
★3.0
MOVIE2023
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
as Self
MOVIE2017
Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
as Self
★4.5
MOVIE1976
Perilous Voyage
as Virginia Monroe
★8.0
MOVIE1982
A Crime to Fit the Punishment
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE2001
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
as Self
MOVIE1967
Deadlock
as Virginia Cloyd
★7.5
MOVIE1981
The Willmar 8
as Narrator
★8.0
MOVIE2003
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE1989
Battered
as Narrator
MOVIE2026
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
as self