Lee Grant Net Worth

Lee Grant's Quotes

• 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.
• [Academy Award acceptance speech]: Thank you. I really must have won it otherwise why would I wear an old wedding dress? [Laughter from the audience] I think we [referring to the Oscar] had a fight twenty years ago, but he's changed. I know I haven't. But I would like to thank the artistic community for sustaining me in my wins and losses and sitting on the curb, whatever it was. I don't think there's an award for what Warren Beatty had to do to get "Shampoo" on, but I respect him and love him, and Robert Towne. And my director Hal Ashby, who encourages an actor to fly without a net because you know that he's there to catch you. Thank you.
• Documentaries give you the arrogant privilege of opening someone's door and exposing the real person. The people in my films were involved with issues so important to them that they decided (a documentary) was the only way they could reach out and tell the world what was happening to them.
• I've been married to one Marxist and one fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

Interesting Facts about Lee Grant

1. 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.
2. She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
3. Revealed in 1978 that she had undergone an abortion early in her career.
4. Has three grandsons: Dashiell (b. 1997), Oliver (b. 2002), and Desi (b. 2002) via her daughter, actress Dinah Manoff, with whom Grant herself was three months pregnant when she completed her run of the Broadway play "A Hole in the Head".
5. Was the 76th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Shampoo (1975) at 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976) on March 29, 1976.
6. On the August 3, 2014 broadcast of CBS News Sunday Morning (1979), Grant admitted to having had her first facelift at age 30. On the same broadcast, she stated she had five grandchildren. She did not say whether any of those were step-grandchildren.
7. Reportedly declined the lead role that ultimately went to Bea Arthur on The Golden Girls (1985), because she didn't want to play a grandmother. Grant's daughter, Dinah Manoff, went on to co-star as Carol Weston in Empty Nest (1988), a direct spin-off of The Golden Girls (1985). Grant appeared as a guest star on the 4th season of the show in 1992, playing the title character in Empty Nest: The Return of Aunt Susan (1992).
8. Is one of 25 actresses to have won an Academy Award for their performance in a comedy; hers being for Shampoo (1975). The others, in chronological order, are: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night (1934)), Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter (1947)), Josephine Hull (Harvey (1950)), Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday (1950)), Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday (1953)), Goldie Hawn Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class (1973)), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall (1977)), Maggie Smith (California Suite (1978)), Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard (1980)), Jessica Lange (Tootsie (1982)), Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor (1985)), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck (1987)), Cher (Moonstruck (1987)), Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)), Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)), Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny (1992)), Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway (1994)) Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite (1995)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)), Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets (1997)), Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love (1998)), Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)), and Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook (2012)).
9. As of 2016 she is the fourth earliest surviving recipient of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, behind only Angela Lansbury, Ann Blyth and Nancy Olson. She was nominated in 1952 for Detective Story (1951).
10. 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.
11. Daughter of Abraham (1896-1989), born in New York, and Witia (née Haskell) Rosenthal (1898-1980), born in Russia. Paternal granddaughter of Fishel (1866-1940) and Ida (née Palea) Rosenthal (1866-1949). Both were born in Russia and emigrated to America in 1892.
12. 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.
13. Finally came out with her real age in 2017, after decades of skimming years off her birthdate.
14. Has directed one Emmy Award-winning performance: Pearl Bailey in ABC Afterschool Specials: Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale (1985).