Lee Grant

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.
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 The Return of Aunt Susan (1992).
Finally came out with her real age in 2017, after decades of skimming years off her birthdate.
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".
As of 2022, she is the oldest surviving recipient of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, with Ann Blyth and Nancy Olson following close behind. She was nominated in 1952 for Detective Story (1951).

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.
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.
[Academy Award acceptance speech] Thank you. I really must have wanted it otherwise why would I wear an old wedding dress? [Audience laughs] 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 (1975) 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.