| Shirley Knight (born July 5, 1936, in Goessel, Kansas) is an award-winning American stage, screen, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth. Knight's other feature films include Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966), Richard Lester's Petulia (1968), Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969), and As Good As It Gets (1997). Knight's theatre credits include The Three Sisters (1964), We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1966), Kennedy's Children (1975), which earned her the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, and A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979). She was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play twice, for Landscape of the Body and The Young Man from Atlanta, which also garnered her a Tony nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play. Knight's many television credits include Target: The Corruptors!, Maggie Winters, L.A. Law, Murder, She Wrote, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, House M.D., Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, and ER, among others, in addition to many television movies, including Indictment: The McMartin Trial, for which she won both the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. She also appeared in the first segment of If These Walls Could Talk, the HBO series about the various faces of abortion co-written and directed by Nancy Savoca, and has played the recurring role of Bree Hodge's mother-in-law Phyllis Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives. Knight was married twice, to Gene Persson from 1959 until they divorced in 1969, and to John Hopkins from 1969 until his death in 1998. She has two daughters, actress Kaitlin and television writer Sophie. Additional filmography - Flight from Ashiya (1964)
- Endless Love (1981)
- Color of Night (1994)
- Little Boy Blue (1997)
- Angel Eyes (2001)
- Ghost Cat (2003)
- Locked In (2005)
- Sexual Life (2005)
- Open Window (2006)
- Grandma's Boy (2006)
- Mall Cop (2008)
- The Other Side of the Tracks (2008)
References - Variety, June 20, 2008
External links - Shirley Knight at the Internet Broadway Database
- Shirley Knight at the Internet Movie Database
- Shirley Knight at the TCM Movie Database
| v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play | | Shirley Knight (1976) · Trazana Beverley (1977) · Ann Wedgeworth (1978) · Joan Hickson (1979) · Dinah Manoff (1980) · Swoosie Kurtz (1981) · Amanda Plummer (1982) · Judith Ivey (1983) · Christine Baranski (1984) · Judith Ivey (1985) · Swoosie Kurtz (1986) · Mary Alice (1987) · L. Scott Caldwell (1988) · Christine Baranski (1989) · Margaret Tyzack (1990) · Irene Worth (1991) · Brid Brennan (1992) · Debra Monk (1993) · Jane Adams (1994) · Frances Sternhagen (1995) · Audra McDonald (1996) · Lynne Thigpen (1997) · Anna Manahan (1998) · Elizabeth Franz (1999) · Blair Brown (2000) | | Complete list: (1947-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present) | | | v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series | | Zohra Lampert (1974) · Fionnuala Flanagan (1976) · Beulah Bondi (1977) · Rita Moreno (1978) · Alfre Woodard (1987) · Shirley Knight (1988) · Kay Lenz (1989) · Viveca Lindfors (1990) · Peggy McCay (1991) · Elaine Stritch (1993) · Faye Dunaway (1994) · Shirley Knight (1995) · Amanda Plummer (1996) · Dianne Wiest (1997) · Cloris Leachman (1998) · Debra Monk (1999) · Beah Richards (2000) | | Complete list: (1974-2000) · (2001-present) | | | v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie | | Esther Rolle (1979) · Mare Winningham (1980) · Jane Alexander (1981) · Penny Fuller (1982) · Jean Simmons (1983) · Roxana Zal (1984) · Kim Stanley (1985) · Colleen Dewhurst (1986) · Piper Laurie (1987) · Jane Seymour (1988) · Colleen Dewhurst (1989) · Eva Marie Saint (1990) · Ruby Dee (1991) · Amanda Plummer (1992) · Mary Tyler Moore (1993) · Cicely Tyson (1994) · Judy Davis / Shirley Knight (1995) · Greta Scacchi (1996) · Diana Rigg (1997) · Mare Winningham (1998) · Anne Bancroft (1999) · Vanessa Redgrave (2000) | | Complete list: (1979-2000) · (2001-present) | | | Persondata | | NAME | Knight, Shirley | | ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knight, Shirley Enola | | SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actress | | DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1936 | | PLACE OF BIRTH | Goessel, Kansas, U.S. | | DATE OF DEATH | | | PLACE OF DEATH | | |
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