Lee Grant

Grant is the mother of the actress Dinah Manoff. Joan Hickson died in Colchester, England. Her other film roles include:. Queen Elizabeth II, said to be a fan of both Miss Marple, and of Hickson, bestowed the latter award. In recent years she has directed a series of Intimate Portrait episodes, that celebrate a diverse range of accomplished women. Hickson played the role in all 12 adaptations of the novels produced from 1984 to 1992, and received a BAFTA nomination and an OBE from the British Government. She has also directed several documentary films, including Down and Out in America (1986) which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In making a new series, the makers determined to remain faithful to the plotlines and locales of Christie's stories, and most importantly to represent Miss Marple as written.

She won an Oscar for Shampoo (1975). Though admired, Rutherford's Marple bore little resemblance to the character as written, and the plots of the early Christie film versions varied sharply from the author's carefully constructed plotlines. She received Academy Award nominations for The Landlord (1970), and Voyage of the Damned (1977). The BBC began filming the works of Agatha Christie in the early 1980s, and were conscious of the criticism that had been levelled at the most famous portrayal of Miss Marple given by Margaret Rutherford. 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. In 1980 she appeared in yet another Agatha Christie production, as Mrs Rivington in Why Didn't They Ask Evans. 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. Her stage career included roles in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, for which she won a Tony Award in 1977.

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. She also appeared opposite Margaret Rutherford in the Marple film Murder, She Said (1961). 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. In the 1940s she appeared on-stage in an Agatha Christie play, Appointment with Death, which was seen by Christie who wrote to her "I hope one day you might play my dear Miss Marple". 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 made her first film appearance in 1934, and the numerous supporting roles of her career included several Carry On films. Lee Grant (October 31, 1927 in New York, New York) is an American theater, film and television actress, and film director. Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, England, she made her stage debut in 1927, and for several years worked throughout the United Kingdom and achieved success playing comedic, often eccentric characters in London's West End.

Mulholland Drive (2001). Joan Hickson ( August 5, 1906 – October 17, 1998) was an English actress of theater, film and television, who achieved fame in her old age playing Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Defending Your Life (1992) and. The Mirror Crack'd (1992). When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979),. They Do It With Mirrors (1991). Damien:Omen II (1978),. A Caribbean Mystery (1989).

Airport '77 (1977),. 4.50 from Paddington (1987). Portnoy's Complaint (1972),. Nemesis (1987). Plaza Suite (1971),. At Bertram's Hotel (1987). Valley of the Dolls (1967),. Sleeping Murder (1987).

In the Heat of the Night (1967),. The Murder at the Vicarage (1986). A Pocket Full of Rye (1985). A Murder is Announced (1985). The Moving Finger (1985).

The Body in the Library (1984) - BAFTA nomination.