All About Lee Grant: Measurements, Age, Wedding, Ethnicity, Parents



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Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, 1927) is an American actress and director. She has won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

Grant was born in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Witia (née Haskell), an actress and teacher, and Harry Rosenthal, a real estate broker. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. She attended high school at the High School of Music & Art in New York City.

Grant’s stage debut was in 1945, at the age of 17, in a production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. She made her film debut the following year in John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). She played a small role in the film noir classic In a Lonely Place (1950) opposite Humphrey Bogart.

In 1951, she was blacklisted from acting in Hollywood films after she refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). In 1952, she appeared on Broadway in The Children’s Hour opposite Audrey Hepburn.

Grant’s film career resumed in 1954 with a role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. She continued to appear in films throughout the 1950s, including roles in The Nun’s Story (1959) opposite Audrey Hepburn and Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder (1959).

In 1961, Grant won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass. She went on to appear in such films as The Chapman Report (1962), The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963), Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), Valley of the Dolls (1967), Shampoo (1975), and Voyage of the Damned (1976).

In the 1980s, Grant appeared on Broadway in such productions as A Matter of Gravity with Katharine Hepburn and on television in such miniseries as Holocaust (1978) and Roots: The Next Generations (1979). She also directed several television movies, including The Burning Bed (1984) starring Farrah Fawcett.

In the 1990s, Grant appeared in such films as Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), My Cousin Vinny (1992), and Batman Forever (1995). She also directed the film Nobody’s Fool (1994) starring Paul Newman.

Grant has been married three times: to screenwriter Arnold Manoff from 1948 to 1952; to actor Gary Dontzig from 1952 to 1960; and to producer Joe Feury from 1960 to present. She has two daughters: Dinah Manoff, an actress, and Daisy Feury, a writer.

Grant has a net worth of $5 million.

Source: IMDb, Wikipedia