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Biography for
Lee Grant (I)

Birth name
Lyova Haskell Rosenthal
Mini biography

Academy Award winner Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York, New York, on October 31, 1927. She made her stage debut at age 4 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, playing the abducted princess in "L'Orocolo". After graduating from high school, she won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where she studied acting with her classmate, Sanford Meisner. When she was a teenager, Grant established herself as a formidable Broadway talent when she won The Critics' Circle Award for her portrayal of the shoplifter in, Detective Story (1951). She reprised the role in the film version, a performance that garnered her the Cannes Film Festival Citation for Best Actress as well as her first Academy Award Nomination. Immediately following her screen debut, however, Lee became a victim of the McCarthy blacklists; except for an occasional role, she did not work in film or television for an additional 10 years. In 1966, Lee had resumed her acting career in the TV series, "Peyton Place" (1964), for which she won an Emmy Award as Stella Chernak, and later garnered her first Academy Award for Shampoo (1975), and received Academy Award nominations for The Landlord (1970), and Voyage of the Damned (1976). Since 1980, Lee has been concentrating on her directorial efforts, which began as part of the Women's Project at The Americal Film Institute (AFI); her adaptation of Strindberg's, "Stronger, The" was consequently selected as one of the 10 best films ever produced for AFI. In 1987, she received an Academy Award for the HBO documentary, Down and Out in America (1986); and she directed _"Nobody Child's" (1986)_ , for CBS, for which she received the Directors Guild Award. In 1983, Lee Grant received the Congressional Arts Caucus Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting and Independent Filmmaking. Subquently, Women in Film paid tribute to her in 1989, with their first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. Both the New York City Council and the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors have recognized Ms. Grant for the contribution her films have made to the fight against domestic violence.


IMDb mini-biography by
Gary Collins II <garyrick96@hotmail.com>
Spouse
Joseph Feury (1962 - present)
Arnold Manoff (1951 - 1960) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Mother of Dinah Manoff

Was blacklisted in 1951 by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for refusing to testify against her husband, blacklisted playwright/screenwriter Arnold Manoff. As a result, she got very little work for about 12 years.

Turned down the role of Dorothy in "The Golden Girls" (1985), because she didn't want to play a grandmother.


Personal quotes

"Many of the things I accomplished in life are because I was dead set on proving somebody wrong."

"The 'Oscar' has endured because of our yearning for excellence. Getting one is like being appointed valedictorian from the bottom of the class. The 'outs' like me, get their moment to be 'in', for as long as it lasts."


Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

Juilliard-trained actress whose promising movie career-she earned an Academy Award nomination for her first film role, that of the young shoplifter in Detective Story (1951)-was stifled by her blacklisting during the McCarthy era. (A similar fate befell her playwright husband, Arnold Manoff.) Aside from supporting roles in Storm Fear (1955) and Middle of the Night (1959), Grant didn't appear on the big screen again until 1963, at which time things picked up considerably. Since then she has been Oscar-nominated three times, winning a Best Supporting Actress statuette for her work in Shampoo (1975). She began directing with 1980's Tell Me a Riddle and her 1985 documentary, Down and Out in America won the Oscar for its category. Her screen appearances have dwindled in recent years, although she was in top form as a prosecuting attorney in Albert Brooks'Defending Your Life (1991) and the made-for-TV Citizen Cohn (1992), ironically cast as Roy Cohn's mother. Her daughter is actress Dinah Manoff.

OTHER FILMS INCLUDE: 1963:The Balcony 1965:Terror in the City 1967:Divorce American Style, Valley of the Dolls, In the Heat of the Night 1968:Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell 1969:Marooned 1970:The Landlord (an Oscar-nominated turn); 1971:Plaza Suite 1972:Portnoy's Complaint 1976:Voyage of the Damned (another Oscar nod); 1978:Airport '77, Damien: Omen II, The Swarm 1979:When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? 1980:Little Miss Marker 1981:Visiting Hours 1984:Teachers 1986:Arriving Tuesday 1987:The Big Town 1988:Calling the Shots 1989:Staying Together (director only).

Copyright © 1994 Leonard Maltin, used by arrangement with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.



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