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Lee Grant (October 31, 1927 in New York, New York)
is an United States|American theater, film and
television actor|actress, and film director who
was Hollywood ten|blacklisted by the Hollywood
movie studio bosses in the 1950s.

Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, Grant performed as a
ballet|ballerina with the New York Metropolitan
Opera at the age of four, and during her childhood
studied dance and acting.  She established herself
as a dramatic actress on Broadway while a teenager
and was praised for her role as a shoplifter in
the play Detective Story.  She made her film debut
in the movie version and received her first
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
nomination, and won the Best Actress Award at the
Cannes Film Festival.

Grant is the mother of the actress Dinah Manoff
through her marriage to screenwriter Arnold
Manoff. 

Called before the House Un-American Activities
Committee to testify against her husband, the
playwright Arnold Manoff, Grant refused to testify
and was ultimately blacklisted.  She continued to
work in theater and resumed her film career in the
early 1960s, and also appeared in the television
series Peyton Place (TV series)|Peyton Place, for
which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in
a Drama. 

She received Academy Award nominations for The
Landlord (1970), and Voyage of the Damned  (1977).
 She won an Oscar for Shampoo (film)|Shampoo
(1975).  She has also directed several documentary
films, including Down and Out in America (1986)
which won the Academy Award for Documentary
Feature.  In recent years she has directed a
series of Intimate Portrait episodes, that
celebrate a diverse range of accomplished women.  

Her other film roles include:
*In the Heat of the Night (1967),
*Valley of the Dolls (1967), 
*Plaza Suite (1971), 
*Portnoy's Complaint (1972), 
*Airport (movie)|Airport '77 (1977), 
*Damien: Omen II (1978), 
*When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), 
*Teachers (film)|Teachers (1984),
*Defending Your Life (1992) and 
*Mulholland Drive (2001).