Lee Grant

Lee Grant is a famous American stage, television and film actress. She made her debut in showbiz at a very young age and has been a part of a number of prestigious institutes including the American Ballet Theatre and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, where she studied. She soon proved herself as a theatrical actress, both on and off Broadway, receiving superior acknowledgment for her role as a shoplifter in the play, ‘Detective Story’. After she became famous overnight in this role, she was cast in the film version of the same, making her presence felt and doing an outstanding job in her first onscreen role. However, her career spiraled downwards after she was blacklisted from radio, film and most of the television work for 12 years due to her political beliefs. In this period, she appeared intermittently on television and was also seen in a number of supporting roles in theatre. During her career, she was cast in a number of popular movies including ‘In the Heat of the night’, ‘Judd, for the Defense’, ‘The Landlord’, and ‘Voyage of the Damned’ and ‘Shampoo’, for which she earned a number of nominations and also a prestigious Academy Award. Apart from her acting career, she also donned the hat of a director for a number of TV films including, ‘Seasons of the Heart’, ‘Say It, Fight It, and Cure It ’and ‘The Gun Deadlock’.