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Shirley Knight

Born 1936-07-05

Died 2020-04-22

📍 Goessel, Kansas, USA

Shirley Enola Knight (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was 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.

Filmography 154

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

as Leanne Cross

The Missing Girl

as Mrs. Colvins

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Redwood Highway

as Jane Redding

Our Idiot Brother

as Ilene Rochlin

Listen to Your Heart

Hot in Cleveland

as Millie Carlson

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

The Other Side of the Tracks

Love and Debate

as Georgia Adams

Desperate Housewives

as Phyllis Van De Kamp

A House on a Hill

as Mercedes Mayfield

Mrs. Ashboro's Cat

as Mrs. Ashboro

as Miss Christina

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

as Necie Kelleher

P.S. Your Cat is Dead!

as Nancy Plummer

Crossing Jordan

as Frances Littleton

as Elanora Davis

My Louisiana Sky

as Jewel Ramsey

75 Degrees in July

as Jo Beth Anderson

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Rose Granville

A Marriage of Convenience

as Harriet Winslow

A Father for Brittany

as Donna Minkowitz

Significant Others

as Gram (Miss Caroline)

As Good as It Gets

as Beverly Connelly

Little Boy Blue

as Doris Knight

Somebody Is Waiting

Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story

If These Walls Could Talk

as Mary Donnelly

as Edie Danziger

A Promise to Carolyn

as Jolene Maggart

Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

as Peggy Buckey

Stuart Saves His Family

Children of the Dust

as Loretta Bennett

Dad, the Angel & Me

Death in Venice, CA

as Mona Dickens

as Edith Niedelmeyer

A Part of the Family

The Yarn Princess

A Mother's Revenge

as Agnes Cantwell

When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn

To Save a Child

as Rinda Larson

Shadow of a Doubt

as Helen Potter

Bump in the Night

as Katie Leonard

as Melanie Cullen

thirtysomething

as Belinda Collins

as Phyllis Todd

The Sweet Scent of Death

as Ann Fairfax Denver

With Intent to Kill

as Edna Reinecker

Murder, She Wrote

as Grace Fenton

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

Kennedy's Children

as Sylvia Dennis

Playing for Time

as Frau Lagerführerin Maria Mandel

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

as Hannah Meredith

Tales of the Unexpected

as Elizabeth Bourdon

Champions: A Love Story

as Barbara Harlich

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

as Genna Kudirka

21 Hours at Munich

as Anneliese Graes

Return to Earth

as Phyllis Lenahan

Friendly Persuasion

as Eliza Birdwell

Please Stand by for Murder

as Barbara Banister

The Country Girl

as Georgie Elgin

as Kay Lewiston

The Streets of San Francisco

Alias Smith and Jones

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

The Rain People

as Natalie Ravenna

as Self (uncredited)

The Counterfeit Killer

as Angie Peterson

Shadow Over Elveron

as Joanne Tregaskis

as Peggy Leydon

as Margaret Cook

Flight from Ashiya

as Caroline Gordon / Stevenson

as Jane Washburn

as Janice Pruitt

The Outer Limits

as Noelle Anderson

Arrest and Trial

as Rhoda Waggner

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Susan Morrow

as Clara Malone

as Erica Hayden

Sweet Bird of Youth

as Heavenly Finley

Target: The Corruptors!

as Bethany Windell

The Roaring 20's

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

as Reenie Flood

as Grace Kennedy

Bourbon Street Beat

Five Gates to Hell

as Sister Maria

Johnny Staccato

as Jennie Cooper

77 Sunset Strip

as Mari Ellen Taylor

as Tendis Weston

The Restless Gun

as Heide Ritter

as Nancy Powers

as Self - Winner

as Self - Presenter

as Self - Nominee

Matinee Theater

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Georgie Elgin

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Bob Hope Show

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee