Lee Grant

Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal; October 31, 1925) Note: online record mistranscribed as "21 Oct"; original document states October 31. is an American actress and director. Her role in the 1951 movie Detective Story as a young shoplifter got her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her role in the 1975 movie Shampoo, won her an Oscar. She also won two Emmy Awards during her career.Profile, forward.com; accessed September 9, 2014. She is the only Academy Award-winning actor to also direct an Academy Award-winning documentary.

Early life
Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell RosenthalRoberts, Jerry. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, Scarecrow Press, 1st edition (June 5, 2009), Amazon Digital Services, Inc; ASIN: B009W3C7E8Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia, Harper Perennial (1998) p. 552;  in Manhattan to a Jewish family. 

Grant made her stage debut in L'Oracolo at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931.Olin Downes. The Opera: Scotti Cheered as Chim-Fen in "L'Oracolo"-Tribute to Mme. Jeritza in "Cavalleria." November 24, 1931. The New York Times. "Hoo-Chee...Lyova Rosenthal" She studied at Art Students League of New York, Juilliard School of Music, The High School of Music & Art, and George Washington High School. She later enrolled in the Actors Studio in New York.

Career
Grant was one of many people who were blacklisted during the 1950s. 

Grant starred in 71 TV episodes of Peyton Place (1965–1966). She also had lead roles in Valley of the Dolls and In the Heat of the Night in 1967. In 1964, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her role in The Maids. During her career, she won two Emmy Awards and was nominated seven times.

Grant later turned her focus to directing. In 1986, she won a Directors Guild of America Award for Nobody's Child. In 1987, the documentary she directed, Down and Out in America, tied for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Personal life
Grant married screenwriter Arnold Manoff in 1951. They divorced in 1960. They had two children, including actress Dinah Manoff. She then married Joseph Feury in 1970.

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Lee Grant at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection

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