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Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, Grant performed as a ballerina with the New York Metropolitan Opera at the age of four, and during her childhood studied dance and acting. She established herself as a dramatic actress on Broadway while a teenager and was praised for her role as a shoplifter in the play Detective Story. She made her film debut in the movie version and received her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, and won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify against her husband, the playwright Arnold Manoff , Grant refused to testify and was ultimately blacklisted. She continued to work in theater and resumed her film career in the early 1960s, and also appeared in the television series Peyton PlacePeyton Place is a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious. Peyton Place is a 1957 film, adapted from the novel. Peyton Place is a nighttime soap opera which ran on ABC from 1964 to 1969, also adapted from the novel. See also: Return to Peyton Place, Murder in Peyto, for which she won an Emmy AwardThe Emmy Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment. There are two types of Emmy Awards, the Daytime Awards and the Primetime Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sci for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama.

She received Academy Award nominations for The Landlord (1970), and Voyage of the Damned (1977). She won an Oscar for ShampooShampoo is a 1975 motion picture starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, and Lee Grant. 1975 films AFI 100 Laughs. (1975). She has also directed several documentary filmA broad category of cinematic expression, traditionally the only characteristic common to all documentary films is that they are meant to be factual. The French used the term to refer to any non-fiction film, including travelogues and instructional videoss, including Down and Out in America (1986) which won the Academy Award for Documentary FeatureThe Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most prestigious awards for documentary films. Winners Following the Academy's practice, films are listed by the "award year", which is also the year in which the film was released under the Academy'. In recent years she has directed a series of Intimate Portrait episodes, that celebrate a diverse range of accomplished women.

Her other film roles include:

• In the Heat of the NightIn the Heat of the Night is a 1967 film which tells the story of a Northern African-American police detective who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small Southern town. Approximately 20 years later, a television series based on the movie was (1967),
• Valley of the Dolls (1967),
• Plaza Suite (1971),
• Portnoy's Complaint (1972),
• Airport '77 (1977),
• Damien:Omen II (1978),
• When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979),
• Defending Your Life (1992) and
• Mulholland Drive (2001).

Grant is the mother of the actress Dinah Manoff .