Dinah Manoff - Early Life

Early Life

Manoff was born in New York City, New York. Her parents are actress, director, and writer Lee Grant (née Lyova Rosenthal) and screenwriter Arnold Manoff. Her half-brother, Tom Manoff, is the Classical Music Critic for NPR's All Things Considered and a notable composer. After Grant divorced Arnold Manoff in 1961, Grant married Joseph Feury in 1962, who thus became Dinah Manoff's stepfather. She spent her childhood and teenage years in New York and Malibu, California. In 1975, at age 17, Manoff was accepted into the Actors Studio.