Lee Grant, born Bogdan Charis Kominowski to Polish parents on April 22 1945, was a New Zealand based pop star of the 1960s, moving to the UK in 1970 where he commenced an acting career.
Mother of Dinah Manoff.
Was blacklisted in 1951 by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for refusing to testify against her husband, blacklisted playwright/screenwriter Arnold Manoff. As a result, she got very little work for about 12 years.
Turned down the role of Dorothy in "The Golden Girls" because she didnt want to play a grandmother.
She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Revealed in 1978, along with many other actresses, that she had undergone an abortion early in her career.
Has three grandsons: Dashiell , Oliver (b. 2002), and Desi via her daughter Dinah Manoff.
Was 3 months pregnant with her daughter Dinah Manoff when she completed her run of the Broadway play "A Hole in the Head".
Is a staunch liberal Democrat.
Was the 76th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Shampoo at The 48th Annual Academy Awards on March 29, 1976.
On the August 3, 2014 broadcast of "CBS News Sunday Morning" , Grant admitted to having her first face lift at age 30.
On the August 3, 2014 broadcast of "CBS News Sunday Morning" , Grant stated that she now has five grandchildren. She did not say whether any of those were step-grandchildren.
Declined the lead role that ultimately went to Bea Arthur on "The Golden Girls" . Grants daughter Dinah Manoff went on to co-star as Carol Weston in "Empty Nest" , a direct spin-off of The Golden Girls, and guest starred on The Golden Girls twice as the same character.
The William Wyler version of Wuthering Heights is her favorite movie.
Is one of 25 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for Shampoo . The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert ( It Happened One Night ), Loretta Young ( The Farmers Daughter ), Josephine Hull ( Harvey ), Judy Holliday ( Born Yesterday ), Audrey Hepburn ( Roman Holiday ), Goldie Hawn ( Cactus Flower ), Glenda Jackson ( A Touch of Class ), Diane Keaton ( Annie Hall ), Maggie Smith ( California Suite ), Mary Steenburgen ( Melvin and Howard ), Jessica Lange ( Tootsie ), Anjelica Huston ( Prizzis Honor ), Olympia Dukakis ( Moonstruck ), Cher ( Moonstruck ), Jessica Tandy ( Driving Miss Daisy ), Mercedes Ruehl ( The Fisher King ), Marisa Tomei ( My Cousin Vinny ), Dianne Wiest ( Bullets Over Broadway ) Mira Sorvino ( Mighty Aphrodite ), Frances McDormand ( Fargo ), Helen Hunt ( As Good as It Gets ), Gwyneth Paltrow ( Shakespeare in Love ), Penlope Cruz ( Vicky Cristina Barcelona ), and Jennifer Lawrence ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
Is one of 22 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of New York. The others are Alice Brady , Teresa Wright , Anne Revere , Celeste Holm , Claire Trevor , Judy Holliday , Shirley Booth , Susan Hayward , Patty Duke , Anne Bancroft , Barbra Streisand , Jane Fonda , Beatrice Straight , Whoopi Goldberg , Mercedes Ruehl , Marisa Tomei , Mira Sorvino , Susan Sarandon , Jennifer Connelly , Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway.
As of 2016 she is the 5th earliest surviving recipient of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, behind only Olivia de Havilland , Angela Lansbury , Ann Blyth and Nancy Olson. She was nominated in early 1952 for Detective Story .
According to her autobiography "I Said Yes to Everything", Grant lost her virginity at age 17 to an Irish dancer named Buster Burnell in August 1943.
Many of the things I accomplished in life are because I was dead set on,proving somebody wrong.
The Oscar has endured because of our yearning for excellence. Getting,one is like being appointed valedictorian from the bottom of the class.
The "outs", like me, get their moment to be "in", for as long as it,lasts.
I was married to a Marxist and I was married to a fascist, and neither,one of them ever took out the garbage.
