Biography
By age 11, she had become a member of the American Ballet Theatre. After music studies at Juilliard, she won a scholarship to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse and switched her focus to acting. Grant understudied the role of Ado Annie in a touring production of "Oklahoma!" before landing her breakthrough stage role as a young shoplifter in Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story" in 1949. Hollywood soon beckoned and she recreated the role in …
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Career Milestones
2006 | Executive produced the HBO documentary "Baghdad ER" | |
2005 | Directed the HBO documentary "... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" | |
2005 | Co-starred with Victoria Foyt, Rob Morrow and Bruce Davison in "Going Shopping," directed by Henry Jaglom | |
2001 | Cast in David Lynch's noir drama "Mulholland Dr." | |
2000 | Appeared in the ensemble cast of Robert Altman's "Dr T and the Women" | |
1999 | Directed various episodes of the Lifetime biographical series "Intimate Portrait" | |
1997 | Produced, directed and hosted "Say It, Fight It, Cure It," a Lifetime documentary about breast cancer; included interviews with survivors and members of their families | |
1996 | Played Eric Roberts' mother in "It's My Party" | |
1994 | Reteamed with Marlo Thomas for the CBS TV-movie "Reunion" | |
1992 | Played the mother of Roy Cohn (James Woods) in the HBO biopic "Citizen Cohn" | |
1989 | Produced, directed and narrated "Battered" (HBO); aired on "America Undercover" | |
1989 | Helmed "No Place Like Home," starring Christine Lahti for CBS | |
1986 | First television collaboration with Marlo Thomas, the CBS biopic "Nobody's Child"; Thomas won an Emmy and Grant received the Directors Guild of America Award | |
1985 | Directed and narrated the documentary "Down and Out in America" (1985), the first pay-cable TV film to win an Academy Award; the film became eligible after a theatrical run in 1986 | |
1984 | Adapted her documentary "The Wilmar 8" as NBC TV-movie "A Matter of Sex" | |
1984 | Narrated and directed the HBO documentary "When Women Kill"; aired as part of "America Undercover" | |
1982 | Co-starred opposite Jerry Orbach in the HBO adaptation of Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite" | |
1981 | Narrated and directed the acclaimed documentary "The Wilmar 8" | |
1980 | Feature film directing debut, "Tell Me a Riddle" | |
1976 | Directed the short film "The Stronger" | |
1976 | Earned fourth Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress as a mentally unstable Jewish refugee in "Voyage of the Damned" | |
1975 | Starred in the short-lived NBC sitcom "Fay" | |
1975 | Won Best Supporting Actress Oscar as a Beverly Hills matron in "Shampoo" | |
1973 | Co-starred in the busted CBS pilot "The Ted Bessell Show" | |
1973 | TV directing debut, "The Shape of Things" (CBS) | |
1972 | Played Mother Portnoy in Ernest Lehman's film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel "Portnoy's Complaint" | |
1971 | Co-starred with Peter Falk on Broadway in Neil Simon's "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" | |
1971 | Played one of the female leads in "Plaza Suite," adapted from Neil Simon's play | |
1971 | Won second Emmy for her performance in the TV-movie "The Neon Ceiling" (NBC) | |
1970 | Earned second Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination opposite Beau Bridges in "The Landlord" | |
1967 | Had prominent role as the wife of murder victim in "In the Heat of the Night"; role revitalized her film career | |
1965 | Joined the cast of the primetime soap "Peyton Place" (ABC); played Stella Chernik; won Emmy Award | |
1963 | Won acclaim for her stage performance in the Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's "The Maids" | |
1959 | Played Gittle Mosca in the Broadway production "Two for the Seesaw" | |
| Continued to act in occasional features despite her blacklisting, (e.g., "Middle of the Night" 1959; "The Balcony" 1963) | ||
1953 | Played Rose Peabody on the CBS daytime drama "Search for Tomorrow" | |
| Returned to NYC; acted in productions at the Mount Kisco Playhouse | ||
| Blacklisted when she refused to testify against her then-husband Arnold Manoff before the House Committee on Un-American Activities | ||
1951 | Made feature acting debut reprising her stage role in "Detective Story"; earned first Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress | |
1949 | Breakthrough stage role, "Detective Story" | |
1948 | Broadway acting debut in "Joy to the World" | |
1944 | Professional stage debut as understudy for the character of Ado Annie in the touring production of "Oklahoma!" (date approximate) | |
1938 | Made member of American Ballet | |
1933 | First stage performance at Metropolitan Opera | |
Awards
1993 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In a Miniseries or Special in Citizen Cohn |
1986 | Directors Guild of America Award for Movies For Television and Mini-Series in Nobody's Child |
1976 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in Fay |
1976 | Academy Award for Actress In a Supporting Role in Voyage of the Damned |
1976 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in Voyage of the Damned |
1975 | Academy Award for Actress In a Supporting Role in Shampoo |
1975 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in Shampoo |
1974 | Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress In Comedy-Variety, Variety in The Shape of Things |
1970 | Academy Award for Actress In a Supporting Role in The Landlord |
1970 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in The Landlord |
1969 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By an Actress In a in Judd, For the Defense |
1967 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in In the Heat of the Night |
1966 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance By an Actress In a in Peyton Place |
1952 | Cannes Film Festival for Best Actress in Detective Story |
1951 | Academy Award for Actress In a Supporting Role in Detective Story |
1951 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in Detective Story |