Actress. She is best remembered for her recurring voice portrayal of the feisty, and dimwitted, Lunchlady Doris in the animated sitcom "The Simpsons." Born into a traditional working-class family, following her relocation from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California, in 1940, after completing her education at Hollywood High School, she attained her degree in communications from the UCLA. While attending a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, she was discovered by Academy Award winning actress Joan Crawford. Impressed by her dark good looks, slim physique, and distinctive voice, she took notice of her potential and arranged for her to begin a career in the film industry beginning with her appearing in a minor role in "Mildred Pierce" (1945). From there, she would go on to flourish as a familiar character actress appearing in over 50 features; often typecast as wives, mothers, relatives, old maids, grandmothers, city slickers, gangster molls, chorines, beauticians, hard boiled dames, waitresses, secretaries, white-collared workers, busybodies, landladies, retail clerks, businesswomen, eccentrics, neighbors, curmudgeons, columnists, reporters, wealthy widows, managers, and matriarchs. She appeared in such films as "The Postman Always Ring Twice" (1946), "Out of the Past" (1947), "A Song is Born" (1948), "In the Good Old Summertime" (1949), "711 Ocean Drive" (1950), "No Highway in the Sky" (1951), "April in Paris" (1952), "The War of the Worlds" (1953), "Suddenly" (1954), "Pearl of the South Pacific" (1955), "The Ten Commandments" (1956), "Love in the Afternoon" (1957), "Vertigo" (1958), "Imitation of Life" (1959), "Never on Sunday" (1960), "Ada" (1961), "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), "Move Over, Darling" (1963), "Goodbye Charlie" (1964), "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965), "Harper" (1966), "Valley of the Dolls" (1967), "Funny Girl" (1968), "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), "Joe" (1970), "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971), "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), "Soylent Green" (1973), "Chinatown" (1974), "The Strongest Man in the World" (1975), "A Star is Born" (1976), "Close Encounters" (1977), "Thank God It's Friday" (1978), "Hanover Street" (1979), "Private Benjamin" (1980), "Under the Rainbow" (1981), "Sophie's Choice" (1982), "Yentl" (1983), "Splash" (1984), "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985), "The Money Pit" (1986), "Blind Date" (1987), "Heathers" (1988), "The War of the Roses" (1989), "Pretty Woman" (1990), "Scenes from a Mall" (1991), "The Distinguished Gentleman" (1992), "Coldblooded" (1995), and "Babe" (1995). On television, she became a familiar face appearing in numerous guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "The Life of Riley," "Our Miss Brooks," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Perry Mason," "The Twilight Zone," "Mr. Lucky," "The Donna Reed Show," "That Girl," "Bewitched," "I Dream of Jeannie," "Hazel," "Get Smart," "My Living Doll," "The Joey Bishop Show," "Here's Lucy," "Eight is Enough," "Happy Days," "Emergency!," "Three's Company," "Soap," "Kojak," "Maude," "Alice," "The Love Boat," "The Facts of Life," "Remington Steele," "ALF," "Murder, She Wrote," "Hart to Hart," "Remington Steele," "Who's the Boss?," "Hill Street Blues," "A Different World," "Full House," "Tales from the Darkside," "Miami Vice," "Married...with Children," "Night Court," "Knight Rider," "Amazing Stories," "Coach," "Growing Pains," "Seinfeld," "Cheers," "Sibs," "The Tracey Ullman Show," "The George Carlin Show," "Phenom," "Ducktales," and "The Critic." During her career, she was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been an honorary chairwoman for The Writers Guild of America West, was an active parishioner of The Temple Israel of Hollywood, was supportive of the California State Democratic Committee, served as a communications instructor for the UCLA, had been a scrip supervisor for Columbia Pictures, was a commercial model for the Forbes Agency, presided on her local charters of the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity, and she was the celebrity spokeswoman for Target Stores and Rite Aid Pharmacies. Upon her death, Matt Groening had the character of Lunchlady Doris withdrawn from speaking appearances but revived her in 2006 being voiced by actress Tress MacNeille keeping the original name in honor of Grau.