| Shirley Enola Knight (born July 5, 1936) is an 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. Career Knight's 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 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!, The Eleventh Hour, The Reporter, 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. Her guest performance in thirtysomething earned her a 1988 Emmy for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series. 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. She also appeared in a popular episode from the original The Outer Limits series titled 'The Man Who Was Never Born' co-starring Martin Landau. Personal life Knight was born in Goessel, Kansas, the daughter of Virginia (née Webster) and Noel Johnson Knight, an oil company executive.[2] 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 - Ice Palace (1960)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
- Flight from Ashiya (1964)
- Endless Love (1981)
- Desperate Justice (AKA A Mother's Revenge) (1993)
- Color of Night (1994)
- Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
- Diabolique
- Little Boy Blue (1997)
- As Good As It Gets (1997)
- Angel Eyes (2001)
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood(2002)
- Ghost Cat (2003)
- Locked In (2005)
- Sexual Life (2005)
- Open Window (2006)
- Grandma's Boy (2006)
- The Other Side of the Tracks (2008)
- Paul Blart Mall Cop (2009)
References - ^ Variety, June 20, 2008
- ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/60/Shirley-Knight.html
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 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 Zohra Lampert (1974) · Fionnula 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 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) | | | v • d • e Piper Laurie (1990) · Amanda Donohoe (1991) · Joan Plowright (1992) · Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1993) · Miranda Richardson (1994) · Shirley Knight (1995) · Kathy Bates (1996) · Angelina Jolie (1997) · Faye Dunaway/Camryn Manheim (1998) · Nancy Marchand (1999) · Vanessa Redgrave (2000) · Rachel Griffiths (2001) · Kim Cattrall (2002) · Mary-Louise Parker (2003) · Anjelica Huston (2004) · Sandra Oh (2005) · Emily Blunt (2006) · Samantha Morton (2007) · Laura Dern (2008) · Chloë Sevigny (2009)
Complete List · (1970–1989) · (1990–2009) | | | 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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