Lee Grant

Grant is the mother of the actress Dinah Manoff. She was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1975 . Her other film roles include:. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1958 for the film Separate Tables. In recent years she has directed a series of Intimate Portrait episodes, that celebrate a diverse range of accomplished women. She was nominated again in 1966 for A Man for All Seasons. She has also directed several documentary films, including Down and Out in America (1986) which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1938 for her first major film role in Pygmalion.

She won an Oscar for Shampoo (1975). Her performance in Love on the Dole attracted the attention of George Bernard Shaw, and he cast her in several of his plays, including Saint Joan, Pygmalion and Major Barbara. She received Academy Award nominations for The Landlord (1970), and Voyage of the Damned (1977). She first found success in the stage version of Love on the Dole, and in 1936 married the author Ronald Gow. She continued to work in theater and resumed her film career in the early 1960s, and also appeared in the television series Peyton Place, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama. Her professional debut as an actress was in repertory at Manchester. 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 was born Wendy Margaret Hiller in Cheshire in England, daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller and Marie Stone.

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. Dame Wendy Hiller (August 15, 1912 - May 14, 2003) was an English film and stage actress. 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. The Countess Alice (1992). Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, Grant performed as a ballerina with the New York Metropolitan Opera at the age of four, and during her childhood studied dance and acting. The Best Of Friends (1991). Lee Grant (October 31, 1927 in New York, New York) is an American theater, film and television actress, and film director. Ending Up (1989).

Mulholland Drive (2001). Anne Of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987). Defending Your Life (1992) and. All Passion Spent (1986). When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979),. The Importance of Being Earnest (1985). Damien:Omen II (1978),. The Kingfisher (1982).

Airport '77 (1977),. Miss Morison's Ghosts (1981). Portnoy's Complaint (1972),. Country (1981). Plaza Suite (1971),. Clochemerle (1972). Valley of the Dolls (1967),. David Copperfield (1969).

In the Heat of the Night (1967),. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987). Attracta (1983). Making Love (1982). The Elephant Man (1980).

The Cat and The Canary (1978). Voyage of the Damned (1976). Murder on the Orient Express (1974). A Man for All Seasons (1966).

Toys in the Attic (1963). Sons and Lovers (1960). Separate Tables (1958). Something of Value (1957).

How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957). Single-Handed (USA: Sailor of the King) (1953). Outcast of the Islands (1952). I Know Where I'm Going! (1945).

Major Barbara (1941). Pygmalion (1938). Lancashire Luck (1937).