Grant had her first stage ballet performance in 1933 at the Metropolitan Opera House. She later enrolled in the Actors Studio in New York. Grant undertook further study with Uta Hagen at the HB Studio. Grant graduated from high school, and won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where she studied under Sanford Meisner. She attended Art Students League of New York, Juilliard School of Music, The High School of Music & Art, and George Washington High School, all in New York City. Grant made her stage debut in L'Oracolo at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931 and later joined the American Ballet as an adolescent. Her date of birth is October 31, but the year is disputed, with all years ranging from 1925 to 1931 having been given as her year of birth at some point however, census data, travel manifests, and testimony suggest that she was born in 1925 or 1926, while Grant's stated ages at the time of her professional debut and Oscar nomination indicate she was born in 1927. The family resided at 706 Riverside Drive in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Her father was born in New York City, to Polish Jewish immigrants, and her mother was a Russian Jewish immigrant. Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in Manhattan, the only child of Witia (née Haskell), a child care worker, and Abraham W. In 1987, the documentary she directed, Down and Out in America, tied for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 1986, she won a Directors Guild of America Award for Nobody's Child. Grant later turned her focus to directing. During her career, she won two Emmy Awards and was nominated seven times. In 1964, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance in The Maids. Grant starred in 71 TV episodes of Peyton Place (1965–1966), followed by lead roles in films such as Valley of the Dolls and In the Heat of the Night in 1967. She started to rebuild her screen acting career after she was removed from the blacklist in 1963. In 1952, Grant was blacklisted from most acting jobs for 12 years, finding occasional work onstage or as a teacher during this period. Grant won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Warren Beatty's older lover in Shampoo (1975). For her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story, Grant earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal October 31, during the mid-1920s) is an American actress, documentarian, and director.

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