First Name
Shirley
Last Name
Knight
Birthday
1936-07-05
Build
Average
Hair Color
Blonde
Birthplace
Goessel, Kansas, USA
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Ethnicity
White
Nationality
American
Gender
Female
Profile Bio Text
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 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.
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Full Name at Birth
Shirley Enola Knight
Count - Awards
21
Role ID
Actor/Actress, Soundtrack, Producer
Has Detailed Data (New)
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Occupation Text
Actress
Claim to Fame
As Good As It Gets
Age
76
Wikipedia Text
Shirley Enola Knight (born July 5, 1936) is an American stage, film 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, eight times for Emmy Awards (winning three), and has also netted a Golden Globe and Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the 1967 film Dutchman.
Eye Color
Green
Has Videos
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