- Name: Lee Grant
- Date of Birth: October 31, 1927
- Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
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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 ...( read more)
New York, on October 31, 1927. She made her stage debut at age 4 at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York City, playing the ...( read more)
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Lee Grant mini-bio: 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.
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