Actor
Lee Grant
Biography

Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, during the mid-1920s) 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 ...

Known For
Acting
2023 -- Sidney Poitier - Der Mann, der Hollywood veränderte | Self
2021 -- Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster | Self
2020 -- Killian & the Comeback Kids | Ms. Hunter (voice)
2019 -- Hal | Self
2018 -- Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor | Narrator (voice)
2017 -- Seeing is Believing: Women Direct | Self
2014 -- Actresses Turned Producer/Directors |
2014 -- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women | Self
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2006 -- Tribute To Burgess Meredith | Self (voice)
2005 -- Going Shopping | Winnie
2003 -- Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin | Self
2003 -- The John Garfield Story | Self
2001 -- Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties | Self
2001 -- Mulholland Drive | Louise
2001 -- The Amati Girls | Aunt Spendora
2000 -- Dr. T & the Women | Dr. Harper
2000 -- Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light | Narrator
2000 -- Poor Liza | Countess Ekaterina
1999 -- Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America | Narrator
1999 -- Mulholland Dr. | Louise Bonner
1997 -- Say It, Fight It, Cure It | Narrator/Host
1997 -- Who Is Henry Jaglom? | Self
1996 -- The Substance of Fire | Cora Cahn
1996 -- It's My Party | Amalia Stark
1995 -- Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval | Narrator
1994 -- Under Heat | Jane
1992 -- Women on Trial | Narrator
1992 -- Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice)
1992 -- Citizen Cohn | Dora Cohn
1992 -- The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer | Narrator
1992 -- In My Daughter's Name | Maureen Leeds
1992 -- Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story | Carol Gertz
1991 -- Defending Your Life | Lena Foster
1990 -- She Said No | D.A. Doris Cantore
1990 -- Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Self
1989 -- Battered | Narrator
1989 -- The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro | Marilyn Klinghoffer
1988 -- Hello Actors Studio | Self
1988 -- Calling the Shots | Self
1987 -- The Big Town | Ferguson Edwards
1986 -- Down and Out in America | Narrator (voice)
1985 -- What Sex Am I? | Self
1984 -- Teachers | Dr. Donna Burke
1984 -- A Billion for Boris | Sascha Harris
1983 -- When Women Kill | Herself
1983 -- Will There Really Be a Morning? | Lillian Farmer
1982 -- Plaza Suite | Norma Hubley / Muriel Tate / Karen Nash
1982 -- Visiting Hours | Deborah Ballin
1982 -- A Crime to Fit the Punishment | Narrator
1982 -- Thou Shalt Not Kill | Maxine Lochman
1981 -- For Ladies Only | Anne Holt
1981 -- The Willmar 8 | Narrator
1981 -- The Million Dollar Face | Evalyna
1981 -- Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen | Mrs. Sylvia Lupowitz
1980 -- Tell Me a Riddle | Flight Attendant (voice)
1980 -- Little Miss Marker | The Judge
1979 -- You Can't Go Home Again | Esther Jack
1979 -- When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Clarisse Ethridge
1978 -- The Good Doctor | Various Roles
1978 -- The Swarm | Anne MacGregor
1978 -- Damien: Omen II | Ann Thorn
1978 -- The Mafu Cage | Ellen
1977 -- Airport '77 | Karen Wallace
1977 -- The Spell | Marion Matchett
1976 -- Voyage of the Damned | Lili Rosen
1976 -- Perilous Voyage | Virginia Monroe
1976 -- TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self
1975 -- Shampoo | Felicia Karpf
1975 -- The Seagull | Irina Arkadina
1974 -- The Internecine Project | Jean Robertson
1974 -- Why Me? | Narrator/Self
1973 -- What Are Best Friends For? | Adele Ross
1973 -- Partners in Crime | Judge Meredith Leland
1972 -- Lieutenant Schuster's Wife | Ellie Schuster
1972 -- Ransom for a Dead Man | Leslie Williams
1972 -- Portnoy's Complaint | Sophie Portnoy
1971 -- Plaza Suite | Norma Hubley
1971 -- The Neon Ceiling | Carrie Miller
1970 -- Night Slaves | Marjorie Howard
1970 -- There Was a Crooked Man... | Mrs. Bullard
1970 -- The Landlord | Joyce Enders
1969 -- Marooned | Celia Pruett
1969 -- The Big Bounce | Joanne
1968 -- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | Fritzie Braddock
1968 -- The Love Song of Barney Kempinski | Laura
1967 -- Valley of the Dolls | Miriam Polar
1967 -- In the Heat of the Night | Mrs. Leslie Colbert
1967 -- Divorce American Style | Dede Murphy
1967 -- Deadlock | Virginia Cloyd
1964 -- Pie in the Sky | Suzy
1963 -- An Affair of the Skin | Katherine McCleod
1963 -- The Balcony | Carmen
1959 -- The World of Sholom Aleichem | The Goatseller / Avenging Angel
1959 -- Middle of the Night | Marilyn
1958 -- Three Plays by Tennessee Williams | Jane (Segment "Moony's Kid Don't Cry")
1955 -- Storm Fear | Edna
1951 -- Detective Story | Shoplifter
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