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An Interview With Soap Alum Lee Grant

By Chris Eades
Lee Grant
The Locher Room

Award winning actress and soap alum Lee Grant will be making a special appearance in The Locher room for a live chat on Friday, July 23, at 3 p.m. ET!

Although best known for her work in films like Detective Story, Valley of the Dolls, In the Heat of the Night, Airport ’77, and Damian: Omen II, early in her career, Grant played Rose Peabody on daytime drama SEARCH FOR TOMORROW in 1953. She also appeared in the 1960s primetime soap PEYTON PLACE as Stella Chernak, a role which won her an Emmy Award in 1966. Grant also has an Academy Award for her role in 1976’s Shampoo.

Grant was also the first female director to be honored by the Director’s Guild of America for helming the movie Nobody’s Child. In addition, she directed the Academy Award-winning documentary Down and Out in America. She will be discussing her incredible career in Hollywood both in front of and behind the camera, so there will be plenty for her to talk about!

And don’t forget to check out The Locher Room’s YouTube channel to see all the other fun live chats with soap stars you might have missed! The YouTube shows are also available as audio podcasts and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts on Amazon, Apple, Google, iHeartRadio, Spotify, and Spreaker.

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