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Lee Grant is a famous American actress and director. She has worked on stage, television, as well as feature films. There was the time in her career when she was declared blacklisted from radio, films and television but she was seen doing some stage performances even during this hard period of the career. She managed to get the award for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival in the year 1952 for her movie Detective Story (1951). She also bagged Obie Award for Distinguished Performance for best actress. She got this Award for her performance in the movie Shampoo. She was nominated for Emmy Awards seven times, and she won the award twice in her career. She was born and brought up in Manhattan. Her proud parents were actress Witia and realtor Abraham W. Rosenthal. She worked for the first time in a show called Metropolitan Opera before joining American Ballet. She made her presence in schools like George Washington High School, Art Students League of New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , The High School of Music & Art, and Juilliard School of Music. She is alumina from Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. She has even enrolled herself in Actors Studio situated in New York. She debuted in Oklahoma (1944) and after this, we saw her in Joy to the World (1948). She established herself as a serious drama actress with the movie Detective Story. She was in controversies from 1952 to 1964. We saw her name on the list of the blacklisted stars over this period, and she called this time as prime years of her life. She was summoned to testify against playwright Arnold Manoff (her husband) but refused and hence the result; she was blacklisted. She was indeed a very talented person. The fact that she won the best-supporting award for her first ever film is a clear proof of that. But the destiny had planned something else for her. After her husband had been called HUAC, she was blacklisted, as she refused to testify him.

The incident took everyone years to cast her again in the movies. Audiences saw her then in very few of television and stage projects. She portrayed Rose Peabody in the drama series called Search for Tomorrow (1953) and Gittle Mosca in Two for the Seesaw (1959). In 1963, she won critical acclaims for her role in stage play Jean Genet's The Maids. Time heals everything and over time she was not anymore blacklisted. She got divorced and after few years, she was married again. She was also blessed with a girl child and named her Dinah. She made no delay then for establishing her career again. For her, the blacklisted period was very painful and hard. She would freeze even with the memory of her prime year, but she says her only motivation was her daughter. In an interaction with her in the year 2002, her fear and glimpse of anxiety were noticed by everyone when she was telling about her tough period of life. After her tough period, she first experienced fame and praise when she won Emmy Awards in 1966 for portraying Stella Chernak in the popular television serial Peyton Place. People saw her in the movies Mission Impossible, and In the Heat of the Night in the year 1967. She received great praises for her performances in these movies. She received back to back two Academy Awards for her drama roles in The Landlord in the year1970 and as well as Voyage of the Damned in the year 1976. She also extended her spectrum to new horizons such as comedy also. In 1971, she did Plaza Suite in which she portrayed the mother of the bride. She again did the similar character in the movie Portnoy's Complaint in the year 1972. Her most memorable role was of the older girlfriend of Warren Beatty Warren Beatty, whose full name is Henry Warren Bea >> Read More... in the comedy film Shampoo in the year 1975. She also ended up winning Oscar for this movie. With this movie, she won praises from everyone from the film industry. Like Bruce Dern said that it is always great working with her, and she is an exceptional actress.

She holds the distinction that she is the only person from her generation to turn toward the direction of movies. She was successful even in direction too. She started from directing stage plays, documentaries, films and then television series. She has also won Academy Award for her direction. She is the first female who bagged Directors Guild of America Award for her contribution towards the direction field. She played Louise Bonner in the famous movie Mullholland Drive, a venture of David Lynch David Lynch is a renowned American film director, >> Read More... . She also had nexus with the Actors Studio from the year 2004 to the year 2007. In the year 2013, she returned to the stage. Even after 40 years of absence, she looked fabulous and appeared with high conviction on the stage. She also played Fonsia Dorsey in The Gin Game. Her daughter Dinah Manoff is the director.

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