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Lee Grant
Lee Grant is an American actress, documentarian, and director. In a career spanning over eight decades, she won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Directors Guild of America Award, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards. She is one of the last surviving actors of the Hollywood blacklist era.
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Born 31 October 1927 · Q230184
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2026· 4 entries
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2013· 1 entry
Grant briefly returned to the stage, after a nearly forty-year absence, to star in one performance of The Gin Game, part of a benefit for improvement programs at the Island Music Guild, in Bainbridge Island, Washington
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2001· 1 entry
Lee Grant portrayed Louise Bonner in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive
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1994· 1 entry
Directed the television film Seasons of the Heart, starring Carol Burnett and George Segal
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1992· 1 entry
Grant played Dora Cohn, the mother of Roy Cohn in the biographical made-for-TV film Citizen Cohn, which garnered her another Primetime Emmy Award nomination
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1988).
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Was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award for outstanding women who through their endurance and the excellence of their work have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry
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1986· 1 entry
Grant directed Down and Out in America (1986) which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature
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1982· 1 entry
Co-starring with Jerry Orbach, both playing three different characters in three acts
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1980· 1 entry
Grant directed her first feature film, Tell Me a Riddle, a story about an aging Jewish couple
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1977· 1 entry
Starred in the ensemble disaster movie Airport '77 and in 1978, she was the lead actress in the horror film Damien - Omen II, also starring William Holden
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Shampoo (1976).
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (1971).
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1969· 1 entry
Had supporting roles in the crime drama The Big Bounce and science fiction drama Marooned, but they were not successful
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1968· 1 entry
Grant appeared in an episode of Mission Impossible, portraying the wife of a U
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1967· 1 entry
Played the distraught widow of a murder victim in the Oscar-winning In the Heat of the Night
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Peyton Place (1966).
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1963· 1 entry
Won acclaim for her stage performance in the off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Maids
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1959· 1 entry
Succeeded Anne Bancroft in the lead female role
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1953· 1 entry
Played Rose Peabody in the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, had featured supporting roles in the film dramas Storm Fear in 1955, and Middle of the Night in 1959
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1951· 1 entry
Gave an impassioned eulogy at the memorial service for actor J
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1948· 1 entry
Had her Broadway acting debut in Joy to the World
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1938· 1 entry
In her early teens, she was made a member of the American Ballet under George Balanchine
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1931· 1 entry
And later joined the American Ballet as an adolescent
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1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-10-31.
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1925· 1 entry
Or 1926, while Grant's stated ages at the time of her professional debut and Oscar nomination indicate she was born in 1927
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