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Lee Grant is an American actress, documentarian, and director. In a career spanning over eight decades, she won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Directors Guild of America Award, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards. She is one of the last surviving actors of the Hollywood blacklist era.
Mulholland Drive
2001
Dr. T & the Women
2000 · as Dr. Harper
Defending Your Life
1991 · as Lena Foster
Visiting Hours
1982 · as Deborah Ballin
Damien - Omen II
1978 · as Ann Thorn
The Swarm
1978 · as Anne MacGregor
Airport '77
1977 · as Karen Wallace
Shampoo
1975 · as Felicia Karpf
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · as Mrs. Leslie Colbert
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“I was a bird imitating the birds. And so it was their kind of imaginary world that I was raised in, and it was part delicious and part confusing.”
“It was like, one day you were an actress who could do anything, and the very next day, you could not work in film or television again. And that was the temper of the times.”
“I think the most important impetus in life, is that it not be boring. The fear of boredom drove me more than any yearning for something I wanted to achieve.”
“The work she did in the film was very sensitive. There was something in her character that struck a chord with her. I found her fascinating.”
“For an actor, you sometimes have to say yes to these type of jobs. Especially when you get older, and are a woman.”
“I don't know. Just walk. Just walk. My daughter Dinah just found out that a book she’s written, a novel, is being published. It’s very exiting. Maybe we’ll get to go to some great New York bookstore once everything’s back and see it up their on the shelves. That would be fun to walk to.”
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