Lee GrantLee Grant (October 31, 1927 in New York, New York) is an American theater, film and television actress, and film director. 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. 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. 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, 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 (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:
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Grant is the mother of the actress Dinah Manoff. Hayward has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6251 Hollywood Blvd. Her other film roles include:. The brain cancer which took her life is traced by some back to her work in The Conqueror, filmed about 100 miles downwind of active Nevadan nuclear-weapon test sites, and in sets dressed with truckloads of dirt from the area. In recent years she has directed a series of Intimate Portrait episodes, that celebrate a diverse range of accomplished women. Other major films included I'll Cry Tomorrow and I Want to Live!, for which she won the Oscar. She has also directed several documentary films, including Down and Out in America (1986) which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In 1947 Hayward received the first of her five Academy Award nominations for Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman. She won an Oscar for Shampoo (1975). She played a dramatic role in Among the Living, and a Southern belle in Reap the Wild Wind. She received Academy Award nominations for The Landlord (1970), and Voyage of the Damned (1977). Although she didn't get that role, she won the role of the female lead in Beau Geste. 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. She went to Hollywood in 1939, aiming to become the unknown who won the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. 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. Born Edythe Marrenner in Brooklyn, New York, she began her career as a photographer's model. 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. Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 - March 14, 1975) was an American 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. 1948 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman. 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. 1950 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - My Foolish Heart. Lee Grant (October 31, 1927 in New York, New York) is an American theater, film and television actress, and film director. 1953 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - With a Song in My Heart. Mulholland Drive (2001). 1956 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - I'll Cry Tomorrow. Defending Your Life (1992) and. 1959 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - I Want to Live!. When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979),. Damien:Omen II (1978),. Airport '77 (1977),. Portnoy's Complaint (1972),. Plaza Suite (1971),. Valley of the Dolls (1967),. In the Heat of the Night (1967),. |