Lee Grant
Gender: Female
Born: 31st October 1928 (currently 83 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Fay, White Fang, Backstairs at the White House, Search for Tomorrow, Mussolini: The Untold Story, Peyton Place
Movies: Airport '77, Defending Your Life, In the Heat of the Night, Marooned, Shampoo, The Landlord, It's My Party, Voyage of the Damned, The Internecine Project, Plaza Suite, The Swarm, Visiting Hours, Going Shopping, The Big Town, Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story, An Affair of the Skin, The Amati Girls, Good Evening, Ms Campbell, Teachers, The Concorde...Airport '79, Damien: Omen II, Billions for Boris, The Good Doctor, The Balcony, Plaza Suite, Middle of the Night, Valley of the Dolls, Pie in the Sky, Citizen Cohn, Detective Story, The Seagull, There Was a Crooked Man..., Mulholland Drive, The Mafu Cage, Dr. T & the Women, The Big Bounce, Divorce American Style, Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, The Spell, Night Slaves, The Substance of Fire, Little Miss Marker, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, Portnoy's Complaint
Lee Grant (born October 31, 1928) is an American stage, film and television actress, and film director. She was blacklisted for 12 years from film work beginning in the mid-1950s, but worked in the theatre, and would eventually win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Karpf in the film Shampoo (1975).
Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, the daughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants Witia (née Haskell), a teacher, and Abraham W. Rosenthal, a realtor and educator. The family resided at 706 Riverside Drive.
Grant studied acting at NYC's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under the guidance of famed acting coach Sanford Meisner before establishing herself as a dramatic actress on and off Broadway, earning praise for her role as a shoplifter in the play Detective Story which began its run on March 23, 1949.
Lee Grant made her film debut two years later in the film version of the same name (Detective Story), receiving her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, and winning the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to testify against
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