Lee Grant

Also Credited As:

Lyova Haskell Rosenthal
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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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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

Born

October 31, 1927

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