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Lee Grant is an American film director, film actor, stage actor, and television actor. Born in Manhattan, she began her professional work period in 1951. Her career in acting and film direction has been recognized with the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She is the mother of Dinah Manoff.
Grant received her education at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, HB Studio, and the Art Students League of New York. She participated in the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. As an author, she has written works including *I Said Yes to Everything*, *Everybody on the truck!*, *Our Vanishing Americana*, and *Spiders, Snakes, and Swamp Witches*.
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- Works
- 6
Top works
- I Said Yes to Everything
- Everybody on the truck!
- Our Vanishing Americana
- Spiders, Snakes, and Swamp Witches
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Film & TV
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…
Known for
- Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood — Self2023
- Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster — Self2021
- Killian & the Comeback Kids — Ms. Hunter (voice)2020
- Hal — Self2019
- Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor — Narrator (voice)2018
- Seeing is Believing: Women Direct — Self2017
- Truth and Lies: The Family Manson2017
- Actresses Turned Producer/Directors2014
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women — Self2014
- Tribute To Burgess Meredith — Self (voice)2006
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Key facts
- Born
- Lyova Haskell Rosenthal , October 31, during the mid-1920s (age 98– 100), New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre , Actors Studio
- Occupations
- Actress director
- Years active
- 1931–present
- Spouses
- Arnold Manoff ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1960 ) Joseph Feury ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 )
- Children
- 2, including Dinah Manoff
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lee
- Family name
- Rosenthal
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Child
- Dinah Manoff
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- HB Studio
- Participant in
- 1981 Cannes Film Festival
- Field of work
- film direction
- Image
- Lee Grant 1967.jpg
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- Lee Grant
- date of birth
- 1927-00-00
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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- Category:Films directed by Lee Grant
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
- name in native language
- Lee Grant
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Encyclopedic overview
Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress, documentarian, and director. In a career spanning over eight decades, she won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Directors Guild of America Award, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards. She is one of the last surviving actors of the Hollywood blacklist era.
Having begun her career as a child performing in stage ballet, Grant rose to prominence as an adult on Broadway, making her debut in Detective Story (1949) as the Shoplifter. She reprised the role in the film adaptation (1951), earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Her career was interrupted when she was blacklisted for 12 years after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. During this period, she worked as an acting teacher and took minor television and theater roles under pseudonyms.
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