Lee Grant

Lee Grant
Grant in 1975
Born
Lyova Haskell Rosenthal

(1925-10-31) October 31, 1925 (age 100)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actress and director
Years active1933–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1951; div. 1960)​

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(m. 1970)​
Children2, including Dinah Manoff

Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, 1925) is an American actress and director. Her role in the 1951 movie Detective Story as a young shoplifter got her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her role in the 1975 movie Shampoo, won her an Oscar. She also won two Emmy Awards during her career. She is the only Academy Award-winning actor to also direct an Academy Award-winning documentary.

Early life

Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in Manhattan to a Jewish family.

Grant made her stage debut in L'Oracolo at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931. She studied at Art Students League of New York, Juilliard School of Music, The High School of Music & Art, and George Washington High School. She later enrolled in the Actors Studio in New York.

Career

Grant was one of many people who were blacklisted during the 1950s.

Grant starred in 71 TV episodes of Peyton Place (1965–1966). She also had lead roles in Valley of the Dolls and In the Heat of the Night in 1967. In 1964, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her role in The Maids. During her career, she won two Emmy Awards and was nominated seven times.

Grant later turned her focus to directing. In 1986, she won a Directors Guild of America Award for Nobody's Child. In 1987, the documentary she directed, Down and Out in America, tied for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Personal life

Grant married screenwriter Arnold Manoff in 1951. They divorced in 1960. They had two children, including actress Dinah Manoff. She then married Joseph Feury in 1970.

Notes

  1. ↑ There is debate about when Grant was born. Government records say she was born in 1925 and in an interview she also mentioned she was born in 1925, however Grant herself has mentioned her age many times and often different every time. In some cases, when she would mention her age, her birth year would differ from 1927–1931

References

  1. 1 2 "New York, New York, Birth Index, 1910-1965". Ancestry.com. New York City Department of Health. Retrieved February 2, 2018. Note: online record mistranscribed as "21 Oct"; original document states October 31.
  2. ↑ Lee Grant (April 11, 2017). "Actress Lee Grant Confesses Her Age And Chats About Blacklisting" (Interview). X17 Online. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ Rickey, Carrie (July 17, 2014), "'I Said Yes to Everything', by Lee Grant", SFGate.com, retrieved January 22, 2017, Lyova Rosenthal was born in the mid-1920s. The granddaughter of Polish and Russian immigrants is famously inexact about her age. From her mid-20s to her mid-30s, the blacklist left her unemployable in TV and film, so she lied about her years, whatever they were, to remain viable as an actress.
  4. ↑ United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities (1958). Hearings. Vol. 2. United States Government Publishing Office. p. 2596.
  5. ↑ Vaughn, Robert (1972). Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 227. ISBN 9780879100810. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Photos: Academy Award Winner Lee Grant Shines at Hope Runs High's Opening Night Bash for Film Forum's LEE GRANT: ACTOR. FILMMAKER Series".
  7. ↑ Profile, forward.com; accessed September 9, 2014.
  8. ↑ "6 Times the Oscars Resulted in a Tie". March 25, 2022.
  9. ↑ Roberts, Jerry. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, Scarecrow Press, 1st edition (June 5, 2009), Amazon Digital Services, Inc; ASIN: B009W3C7E8
  10. ↑ Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia, Harper Perennial (1998) p. 552; ISBN 0-06-273492-X
  11. ↑ Ivry, Benjamin (July 19, 2024). "Lee Grant Said Yes to Everything — Except McCarthyism". The Forward. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
  12. ↑ Olin Downes. The Opera: Scotti Cheered as Chim-Fen in "L'Oracolo"-Tribute to Mme. Jeritza in "Cavalleria." November 24, 1931. The New York Times. "Hoo-Chee...Lyova Rosenthal"
  13. ↑ "Movie Memory Lee Grant 1976". New York Daily News. December 1, 2002. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
  14. ↑ "HB Studio - Notable Alumni | One of the Original Acting Studios in NYC".
  15. ↑ "1987 | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". www.oscars.org. January 28, 2022. Retrieved 2023-03-10.

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