Ms. Lee Grant – Oscar Winner – Emmy Winner – Legend

An attractive brunette with angular features, Lee Grant began her career as a child performer with NYC’s Metropolitan Opera. 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 William Wyler’s 1951 superb film version. Grant won