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At 26, Lee Grant won Cannes’ Best Actress award and was Oscar®-nominated; within the year, she was blacklisted for over a decade. Coming back strong, she won an Emmy for Peyton Place, then appeared in a series of movie classics, winning an Oscar for her brilliant comic performance in SHAMPOO. But a whole new career beckoned as the director of acclaimed documentaries (including an Oscar® winner), both warm portraits of friends (Michael and Kirk Douglas, Sidney Poitier, et al.) and cutting edge films on women’s and gender issues.

Brooke Adams began acting at age 6 in her father’s summer theater in Michigan. She has appeared on screen in dozens of films, including Terrence Malick’s DAYS OF HEAVEN, Philip Kaufman’s INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, Allison Anders’ GAS FOOD LODGING, David Cronenberg’s THE DEAD ZONE, as well as MADE-UP (2002), directed by her husband Tony Shalhoub, and written by her sister Lynn Adams. Ms. Adams’ numerous stage appearances include the The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway and The Cherry Orchard at the Atlantic Theater Co.

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