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Lee Grant is a celebrated American stage, film and television actress, and film director. From 1952 through 1964 she was blacklisted from radio, film, and most television work, but continued working sporadically in the theatre during this time. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Karpf in Shampoo (1975). At the age of 25 she won the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival for her role as the shoplifter in the 1951 film version of Detective Story. She won the 1964 Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance as Solange in Jean Genet's The Maids. She has been nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 through 1993, winning twice. As a documentary film maker, she received the 1986 Directors Guild of America Award, as well as the 1986 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Cannes Best Actress Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Obie Award for Performance, DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television Film/Miniseries, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding...
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program,...
Movies
Detective Story, In the Heat of the Night, Shampoo, Damien: Omen II, Valley of the Dolls, Airport '77, Mulholland Drive, Voyage of the Damned, Plaza Suite, The Landlord, Defending Your Life, The Swarm, Good Evening, Ms Campbell, Down and Out in America, Tell Me a Riddle, Citizen Cohn, Staying Togeth...
TV Shows
White Fang, Search for Tomorrow, Peyton Place, Backstairs at the White House, Mussolini: The Untold Story, Fay, The Shape of Things
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Trademark
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Red hair
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Her youthful appearance
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Her deep, sexy voice
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New York City accent
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I was married to a Marxist and I was married to a fascist, and neither one of them ever took out the garbage.
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Documentaries give you the arrogant privilege of opening someone's door and exposing the real person. The people in my films were involved with issues so important to them that they decided (a documentary) was the only way they could reach out and tell the world what was happening to them.
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[Academy Award acceptance speech]: Thank you. I really must have wanted, otherwise: Why would I worn all wedding dress? (laughter from the audience) I think we had a fight twenty years ago (referring to her being blacklisted), but he's changed, I know I haven't. But I would like to thank the artistic community for sustaining me in my wins and losses and sitting on the curb, whatever it was. I don't think there is an award for what Warren Beatty had to do to get Shampoo on, but I respect him and love him, and Robert Towne, and my director Hal Ashby who encourages an actor to fly without a net because you know that he's there to catch you. Thank you.
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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.
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Many of the things I accomplished in life are because I was dead set on proving somebody wrong.
The William Wyler version of "Wuthering Heights" is her favorite movie.
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Declined the lead role that ultimately went to Beatrice Arthur on "The Golden Girls" (1985). Ironically, Grant's daughter Dinah Manoff went on to have a supporting on the TV series "Empty Nest" (1988), which is a spin-off of "The Golden Girls".
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On the August 3, 2014 broadcast of CBS News Sunday Morning (1979), Grant stated that she now has five grandchildren. She did not say whether any of those were step-grandchildren.
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On the August 3, 2014 broadcast of CBS News Sunday Morning (1979), Grant admitted to having her first face lift at age 30.
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Was the 76th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Shampoo (1975) at The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976) on March 29, 1976.
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Is a staunch liberal Democrat.
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Was 3 months pregnant with her daughter Dinah Manoff when she completed her run of the Broadway play "A Hole in the Head".
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Has three grandsons - Dashiell (b. 1997), Oliver (b. 2002) and Desi (b. 2002) - via her daughter Dinah Manoff.
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Revealed in 1978, along with many other actresses, that she had undergone an abortion early in her career.
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She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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Turned down the role of Dorothy in The Golden Girls (1985), because she didn't want to play a grandmother.
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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.
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Gave birth to her only child at age 32, a daughter Dinah Manoff on January 25, 1958. Child's father is her 1st [now ex] husband, Arnold Manoff.